Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake)
Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake)

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tteokbokki (spicy rice cake). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

These spicy rice cakes are super delicious, umami rich and highly addictive! Tteokbokki is one of the most popular Korean street foods in Korea. Among other things, today's recipe is made with Korean rice cakes, Korean fish cakes, Korean soup stock / dashi stock and gochujang (Korean chili paste)!

Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake):
  1. Prepare 200 g cylindrical tteok (rice cake)
  2. Prepare 150 g eo-muk (fish cake)
  3. Make ready 1/8 head small cabbage (optional)
  4. Take 1/4 small carrot (optional)
  5. Prepare 1 cup chopped spring onion (optional)
  6. Take 1 small onion (optional)
  7. Prepare 2 boiled eggs (optional)
  8. Get 500 ml water
  9. Make ready 1.5 tbsp gochujang (chili paste)
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp chili powder
  11. Make ready 2.5 tbsp soy sauce
  12. Prepare 6 tbsp sugar
  13. Make ready 1/2 tbsp minced garlic

The quality of the tteok/dduk varies quite a bit. Tteokbokki, also spelled dukbokki, topokki, or ddeokbokki, are Korean hot and spicy rice cakes. A warm, spicy aroma filled the air as vendor after vendor worked at massive hot plates, stir frying long cylindrical rice cakes in the rich, red tteokbokki sauce. In this version, we sear the chewy rice cakes until the outsides are crisp before tossing them in the spicy-sweet gochujang sauce.

Steps to make Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake):
  1. Gather the ingredients.
  2. Pour 500 ml of water in a large saucepan on high heat.
  3. Add chili paste, chili powder, soy sauce, sugar, and minced garlic to the pan and mix well.
  4. Chop the vegetables into bite-size and add them to the saucepan.
  5. When it starts to simmer, add the rice cake and fish cake to the pan.
  6. When it starts to boil, add the spring onion and boiled egg, if using.
  7. Reduce the heat to medium and let it boil for about 8-10 minutes, until the sauce slightly thickens. Serve hot.

Top with eggs, sesame seeds, and remaining scallions. It is made with rice cakes (garaetteok, cylinder-shaped rice cake), fish cakes, boiled egg, and seasoned with chile paste. The rice cakes are chewy and tender. It looks super spicy and, originally, it is! But you can control the amount of chile paste.

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