Korean Spicy Rice Cakes are known tteokbokki. Tteok stands for rice cake. The rice cakes are made with rice flour. The Korean spicy rice cakes is a famous street food in Korea. The spiciness is balanced with soju for the Koreans. Korean spicy rice cakes have many varieties. My personal favourite is cheese tteokbokki. The ordinary Korean spicy rice cakes become extremely tasty when cheese is added.
First of all prepare the ingredients
1.Rice cakes (tteok) - You can buy it in supermarkets. It is available in many places or checkout the link learn how to cook tteok
2. 3/4 cup of water
3. Gochujang
4.Sugar
5.Soy Sauce
6.Fish cake (optional)
7. Sesame seeds (optional)
Steps:
1. Add water, sugar and Gochujang inside pan. You can add sugar according to your preference. If you have high spice tolerance you can add less teaspoon of sugar. Meanwhile for Gochujang, a table spoon will be enough. Once you have add the three ingredients in the pan heat it up.
2. Stir it until it boils.
3. Add rice cakes (tteok), fish cakes and soy sauce.
4. Mix it well. Let the rice cakes (tteok) absorb the flavour of gochujang.
5. Add sesame seeds.
Thats it! Tteokbokki is ready! You can add egg and vegetables.