Cooking Recipes

Today, I want to share a delicious Korean snack recipe that brings back my childhood memories of school. It’s skewered sweet and spicy rice cakes called TteokGgochi in Korean. You can make this authentic Korean street food right in your kitchen by following this video. Let’s get started.

Yield: 8-10 Skewers

Short Korean Lesson

• Bbahng (빵) = Bread
• Tteok (떡) = Sticky Rice Cake

Video Instructions

Main Ingredients

• 20 Sticky Rice Cakes
• 8-10 Bamboo Skewers
• Some Oil for Frying

Sauce Ingredients

Directions

First, let’s prepare some of the ingredients before we start to cook. We need to get 20 rice cake pieces (about 6-inches long) for tteokbooki. It is nice to have straight-cut ends on the rice cakes for today’s recipe.

If you use frozen rice cakes, cook the frozen rice cakes in boiling water for a minute, or until soft.

Grate 1 Tbsp worth of an onion. This onion will give nice flavor to the sauce later.

Chop 1 Tbsp worth of unsalted peanuts. I like to crush them in a small snack bag with the butt of my knife.

After that, drain water and let them cool little bit so that you can pull them apart.

Cut the rice cakes in half. Now you will have 40 pieces.

Put 4 or 5 rice cakes on a skewer. You will get about 8-10 skewers.

Place the rice cakes in a heated pan with a little oil on medium high. Fry the rice cakes for about 4 minutes on each side, or until both sides become nicely browned.

While you are frying the rice cakes, you can make the delicious sauce. Add 3 Tbsp Ketchup, 2 Tbsp hot pepper paste, 1 Tbsp water, 1Tbsp soy sauce, 2 Tbsp honey or corn syrup, 1 Tbsp onion juice, 1 Tbsp sesame oil, 1 Tbsp sugar, 1 tsp of minced garlic, ⅛ tsp black pepper, and 1 Tbsp chopped unsalted peanuts in a pan.

Heat the sauce on medium until it boils, stirring occasionally. After 1 minute, the sauce will be ready for the rice cakes.

The rice cakes are ready for the sauce now.

Coat the fried rice cakes with the sauce. You can use a brush or spoon.

My mouth is watering just looking at these again.

 

This is one recipe that is highly recommended by me.  Try it someday.