Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes)

Name: Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 500g tteok rice cakes; 1 cup fish cakes, sliced; 3 tbsp gochujang; 1 tbsp gochugaru; 2 tbsp sugar; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 3 cups dashi or water; spring onion and sesame seeds to garnish

Chewy Korean rice cakes in a sweet and spicy gochujang sauce — popular street food. Simmering the rice cakes for the full 10 minutes before the fish cakes go in gives them that properly chewy texture rather than a firm, undercooked centre.

Total time

20 min

Prep

5 min

Cook

15 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Korean

comfortAsian

Ingredients

500gtteok rice cakes

1 cupfish cakes, sliced

3 tbspgochujang

1 tbspgochugaru

2 tbspsugar

2 tbspsoy sauce

3 cupsdashi or water

spring onion and sesame seedsto garnish

Instructions

Bring dashi to simmer; add gochujang, gochugaru, sugar, and soy.

Add rice cakes; cook 10 min until tender.

Add fish cakes; simmer 3 more min.

Garnish with spring onion and sesame seeds.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

Protein

1.5g

Fat

0.4g

Carbs

11.2g

Fiber

1.1g

Sodium

536mg

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