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Tteokbokki (Chef Paik's Version)

Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-spicy gochujang sauce, with fish cakes, cabbage, and hard-boiled eggs. Chef Paik's proportions.

base recipe: 4 servings
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ingredients

servings
4

Base

Sauce

instructions

  1. 1.Cut the green onion diagonally, or slice in half and cut into long pieces.
  2. 2.Cut the cabbage and fish cake into bite sizes.
  3. 3.Add the water, dark soy sauce, brown sugar, gochujang, coarse red pepper powder, fine red pepper powder, green onion, and cabbage to a pot and bring to a boil.
  4. 4.Lightly rinse the rice cake and wheat flour cake under water.
  5. 5.Once the sauce boils, add the hard-boiled eggs, rice cake, and wheat flour cake and keep cooking.
  6. 6.Add MSG if desired.
  7. 7.When the sauce boils again, add the fish cake.
  8. 8.Continue cooking until the sauce reaches the consistency you want.

revision history

  • There's also a simpler quick version: 1 lb rice cakes (plus optional fish cakes, ramen, or zucchini) with a sauce of 1 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp liquid sweetener like plum syrup or honey, and 2 cloves garlic.