Recipes of Tteokbokki

On this blog I am going to tell you the recipes of tteokbokki.

I am going to tell you the recipe by using 6 oz. of rice cake.

Tteokbokki is usually eaten as a snack food in Korea.

Introduction to Tteokbokki Rice Cake

Tteokbokki is a food which uses rice cakes. There are many different kinds of rice cakes, but the one you want to use is the tteokbokki tteok or garaetteok. Usually, super markets sell the rice cakes that is used for tteokbokki in packages.

Tteokbokki Sauce

1 Tbs. of gochujang. (Gochujang is a Korean chili paste)
1 Tbs. of gochugaru. (Gochugaru is a Korean dried chili flakes. It will make it spicier, so if you like spicy things you may put it in)
1 Tbs. of soy sauce. (Soy sauce will make it sweeter and taste better)
1 Tbs. of sugar

Tteokbokki Ingredients

How to Cook Tteokbokki

Boil 3 cups of water in medium high heat.
Leave the rice cakes in normal temperature water until the sauce goes inside the boiling water.
Put Gochujang, Sugar, and Soy sauce inside the boiling water and stir it until the boiling water becomes red.
Take the rice cakes out of the water and add them into the boling sauce and water. Lower the heat into medium heat and cook it for 5 to 6 minutes. Stir the rice cake occasionally.
Then, after 5 to 6 minutes had passed add the fish cakes and add them in the boiling sauce with rice cakes in it. Keep stirring the rice cake and the fish cake until the sauce gets thickened or stir it for 3 to 4 minutes after you had added the fish cake.
After the rice cake is cooked take the food out and immediately slice the green onion. You would only want a bit of the green onions, because it is usually used for decorating.
Then, cut the boiled egg in half, if you want, and set it on top of the tteokbokki. (optional)
You can also put cheese on top of the tteokbokki. (optional)