Sweet & Spicy Stir fried Rice cake recipe | TTeokbokki

 

Korean Soul food Tteokbokki (떡볶이)

 

Tteokbokki is one of the Koreans' most popular public foods like Pizza for Italians, or Hamburger for Americans. There is no one who hasn't eaten this food - no exceptions for the president, BTS or Minho Lee.

 

What is Tteok-bo-kki

 

Have you been curious about a certain red food that many Korean celebrities enjoy on TV shows? That might be a chilli paste based rice cake cuisine cooked on a pan. It is one of the Koreans' go-to street foods. People eat it as a meal substitute, snack, night food or even as alcohol food.

 

 

BTS' Muckbang (c) BANGTANTV

 

If you master Tteokbokki, I promise you are used to the major food style of Korea. Also, this food can be a pretty accessible pasta substitute when you travel in Korea, because you could find street vendors cooking Tteokbokki no matter which market you might go to.

 

 

Mouthwatering Tteokbokki street vendor (c) https://koreanrestaurant.tistory.com/

 

How is Tteokbokki taste like

 

 

Are you good at a little bit of spiciness such as "sweet chilli sauce"?. The taste of Tteobokki sauce is not exactly the same as sweet chilli sauce, yet they are in the same family I guess. So to say, tasty Tteokbokki sauce is a "golden balance of chilli paste(Gochujang), soy sauce and sugar"

 

On top of that, healthy rice cakes give soft & chewy texture in the mixture of sweetness & spiciness. Additionally, savory fish cake and fresh fragrance of green onion enrich the taste.

 

 

Before all, you are here to find out the "cooking recipe". We will see the ingredients list with individual amounts below together with a cooking process video. Let's go get it !

 

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This recipe is not only one of the SIMPLEST but also of the most DELICIOUS recipe among I tried, which is originally released by a famous Korean chef Mr. Paik. Since I tried it already, I can proudly introduce this one. To illustrate more, this Tteokbokki made my boyfriend to eat Tteokbokki by his own intent (He didn't seem enjoying Tteokbokki before)

 

 

Ingredients

 

Tteokbokki ingredients

Main (4)

- Rice cake 2 cups

- Fish cake 1 ~ 2 cups

- Chopped green onion 0.5 cup

- Boiled eggs 3ea

Sauce (4)

- Red chilli powder (or chilli flake) 2 tablespoons

- Go-chu-jang (Chilli paste) 1.5 tablespoons

- Soy sauce (Plain style) 1.5 tablespoons

- Sugar 2 tablespoons

Stock

- Water 2 cups

(Water is enough though, you can use your own stock)

 

Tteokbokki recipes (c) koreanrestaurant.tistory.com

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How to cook

 

Overall cooking time : 10~15min

 

One. Preparation

- Rinse rice cakes & other ingredients

 

Two. Making Sauce

- Mix all of "sauce" ingredients

 

Three. Cuttings

- Chop green onion

- Slice fish cakes to finger size

 

Four. Boiling

- Boil water and mix sauce from 1

- Put rice cake & fish cake

- Boil down to half

- Add boiled eggs & green onion

- Mix all well and turn off stove

 

 

※ Refer to cooking video for more details.

See Tteokbokki recipe video in Youtube   

 

 

 

Here we go ~ Hope you enjoy my selected recipe about Stir-fried rice cake! Cheers everyone!

 

 

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