🇰🇷 The ultimate Korean Tteokbokki (떡볶이) recipe 🔥🍢

Hello everyone! Today, I'm sharing a recipe for a street food classic recognizable to every K-drama fan— spicy stir-fried rice cakes ! It's incredibly easy to make at home, reminiscent of a Korean night market. 😁 This recipe is a combination of Hong Kong flavors and online tips, including ingredients, cooking time, and texture variations.

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🛒 Ingredients (Serves 4)

🍢 Main ingredients

• Korean rice cake sticks 400g (recommended fresh coconut rice cake, chewy)

• Korean fish cake 150-200g (cut into strips/slices)🐟

• onion Half (shredded)

• Cabbage/baby cabbage Half (sliced/either way doesn't matter)🥬

• carrot 1/3-1/2 strip (sliced/shredded)🥕

• onion 2-3 pieces (cut into sections)🌿

• water 600-800ml (the amount of water depends on your preference)

• Boiled eggs 2-4 pieces (optional, perfect for adding the finishing touch)🥚

• cheese slices 2-3 pieces (brushed upgraded version, optional)🧀

🥄 Seasoning

• Korean chili paste (Gochujang) 2-2.5 tablespoons🌶️

• Korean chili powder 2-3 tsp (you can add more if you like it spicier) 🌶️

• Light soy sauce 1.5 tablespoons 🥢

• fish sauce 1/2-1 tablespoon (it’s ok whether it has flavor enhancement or not)

• granulated sugar 1-1.5 tablespoons (adjust sweetness according to the chili sauce)

• minced garlic 2 cloves (crushed)🧄

• sesame oil 1/2 tablespoon (add before serving, for extra flavor)

• White sesame seeds 1-2 tablespoons (sprinkle on the surface)🤍

🍲 (Upgraded version of soup stock)

• Dried anchovies 6-8 ☑️

• kombu A small piece☑️

• water 1.2L (for cooking soup base, ordinary water is fine)

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👨🍳 Detailed Hong Kong editor-style process

🔥 1. Rice cake pre-processing

• Fresh rice cake (soft): rinse with water to remove starch and use directly; frozen rice cake should be soaked in clean water for 30 minutes until soft

• Many people complain that rice cakes are not chewy after cooking. The reason is that you need to keep turning them over after cooking to avoid them being too chewy.

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🍲 2. Soup Base (skip if you're a Level UP)

• If you want a better soup base, first boil the dried anchovies and kelp in 1.2L of water for 20 minutes, then drain the residue and use the soup.

• For the emergency version, just use clean water!

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🥘 3. Prepare the ingredients

• Cut the fish fillet into strips, shred the onion and cabbage, and slice the carrot

• Cut the green onion into sections, boil the eggs, peel them and set aside

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🫙 4. Pre-mixed sauce

• Mix together red chili sauce, chili powder, soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and minced garlic to make the "all-purpose chili sauce."

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🔥 5. Start cooking

1. **Ingredients for sautéing:** Heat a little oil over high heat and sauté onions (you can add half a spoon of minced garlic for flavor)

2. **Add ingredients to the soup base: **Pour in the prepared soup base/water, and when the soup boils, add cabbage, carrots, fish cake and other ingredients

3. **Add rice cake + chili sauce:** Add rice cake strips and all the chili sauce, mix well and bring to a boil

4. **Keep turning:** Use medium heat to keep turning so that the rice cake does not stick to the bottom

5. **Thickness adjustment: **The soup can be tightened to your desired thickness (about 10-15 minutes)

6. **Final ingredients:** Turn off the heat, add onion and sesame oil and mix well

7. The upgraded version can be filled with cheese slices and baked until slightly melted. If you like runny eggs, put the eggs at the end.

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🥄 6. Final decoration

• Serve, sprinkle with white sesame seeds, and garnish with chopped green onions or seaweed shreds

• If you like spicy food, you can add more chili powder and sprinkle it on

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🍽️ Authentic Korean roadside food

• The hot and spicy food is the best, and it is even more authentic when paired with Korean fried chicken, fish soup, and cold cucumber salad.

• "Stretched Spicy Rice Cake": Add runny egg and cheese at the end and mix together to make it stretchy.

• Cold food will return firmly, hot food will arrive first classic!

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💡 Tips from the editor

1. Do not leave the stove until it is uncooked : Keep turning the rice cakes over and wait for the soup to coat each piece.

2. **Sweetness and spiciness adjustment: **Adjust the amount of hot sauce/sugar according to your spicy taste

3. **Soup base upgrade: **Anchovy and kelp soup base is more delicious, no staleness, just plain water

4. **Control the texture of the rice cake: **If you want it to be chewier, turn off the heat and cover the pan for 3 minutes when there is some soup base.

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🏥 Nutrition and delicious summary

• Rice cakes are high in carbohydrates and very filling, making them suitable as staple food or a midnight snack.

• Hot sauce and spicy powder promote metabolism

• Fish cake, egg, and cheese add protein and flavor

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📸 Editor's personal experience reminder

A common problem for beginners is that the rice cake sticks to the bottom—a quick tip: "Keep turning it over"—and it's fine! Also, don't overcook the rice cake strips, or they'll break apart in a matter of minutes. Plus, you can add as much toppings and cheese as you want to customize it to your taste!

Please share your photos after making them! We'll feature Korean street food next time~🤳😋

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