๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸฒEasy Korean Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes Recipe)์ง‘์—์„œ๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋งค์ฝค๋‹ฌ์ฝค ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด

If youโ€™ve ever watched a Korean drama, youโ€™ve probably seen someone eating this bright red, steamy street food. Thatโ€™s Tteokbokki (๋–ก๋ณถ์ด) โ€” soft, chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet and spicy gochujang sauce.
ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ถ‰์€์ƒ‰ ์–‘๋…์— ํ‘น ๋‹ด๊ธด ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด๋ฅผ ๋จน๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค ๋ดค์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด๋Š” ์ซ„๊นƒํ•œ ๋–ก์„ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์šด ๊ณ ์ถ”์žฅ ์–‘๋…์— ์กธ์—ฌ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์‹์ด์—์š”.

The best part? You donโ€™t have to be in Korea to enjoy it. With just a few simple ingredients, you can recreate that authentic flavor right at home.
์ข‹์€ ์ ์€, ๊ผญ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋ง›์„ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.


๐Ÿ›’ Ingredients ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

  • Main ์ฃผ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

1ยฝ cups Korean rice cakes (about 200g) / ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด ๋–ก 1์ปต ๋ฐ˜ (์•ฝ 200g)

3โ€“4 fish cakes (or fish tofu sheets), sliced / ์–ด๋ฌต 3~4์žฅ (๋˜๋Š” ํ”ผ์‰ฌ๋‘๋ถ€ ์‹œํŠธ)

1 green onion, cut into 2-inch pieces / ๋Œ€ํŒŒ 1๋Œ€ (5cm ๊ธธ์ด๋กœ ์ž๋ฆ„)

2 cups water or anchovy broth / ๋ฌผ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฉธ์น˜์œก์ˆ˜ 2์ปต

  • Sauce ์†Œ์Šค

2 tbsp gochujang (Korean red chili paste) / ๊ณ ์ถ”์žฅ 2ํฐ์ˆ 

1 tbsp gochugaru (Korean chili flakes) / ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ 1ํฐ์ˆ 

1 tbsp soy sauce / ๊ฐ„์žฅ 1ํฐ์ˆ 

1 tbsp sugar / ์„คํƒ• 1ํฐ์ˆ 

1 tbsp corn syrup or honey / ๋ฌผ์—ฟ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฟ€ 1ํฐ์ˆ 

1 tsp minced garlic / ๋‹ค์ง„ ๋งˆ๋Š˜ 1์ž‘์€์ˆ 

Optional toppings (์„ ํƒ):

1 boiled egg or ยฝ cup mozzarella cheese / ์‚ถ์€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ 1๊ฐœ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์งœ๋ ๋ผ์น˜์ฆˆ ยฝ์ปต

Sesame seeds for garnish / ๊นจ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„


๐Ÿณ Instructions | ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•

  1. Boil the broth.
    In a medium pot, pour 2 cups of water (or anchovy broth) and bring it to a boil.
    ๋ƒ„๋น„์— ๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฉธ์น˜์œก์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. Add the sauce ingredients.
    Stir in gochujang, gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, corn syrup, and minced garlic. Mix well until smooth.
    ๊ณ ์ถ”์žฅ, ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ, ๊ฐ„์žฅ, ์„คํƒ•, ๋ฌผ์—ฟ, ๋‹ค์ง„ ๋งˆ๋Š˜์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์ž˜ ํ’€์–ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. Add rice cakes and fish cakes.
    Once the sauce starts bubbling, add rice cakes and fish cakes. Stir often so they donโ€™t stick.
    ์–‘๋…์ด ๋“๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋–ก๊ณผ ์–ด๋ฌต์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์ €์–ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  4. Simmer until thick.
    Cook for about 10 minutes until the sauce thickens and the rice cakes become soft and chewy.
    ์•ฝ 10๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋“์—ฌ ์–‘๋…์ด ๊ฑธ์ญ‰ํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋–ก์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์กธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  5. Finish with toppings.
    Add boiled egg or cheese, and sprinkle sesame seeds before serving.
    ์‚ถ์€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€์ด๋‚˜ ์น˜์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์— ๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋ฟŒ๋ ค ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸงŠ Storage / ๋ณด๊ด€๋ฒ•

If you happen to have some leftover tteokbokki (which honestly doesnโ€™t happen often ๐Ÿ˜‹), hereโ€™s the best way to keep it fresh!
ํ˜น์‹œ ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด (์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ผ์€ ์—†์ง€๋งŒ์š” ๐Ÿ˜‹), ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์•„์š”.

Let it cool completely, then store it in an airtight container in the fridge.
์™„์ „ํžˆ ์‹ํžŒ ๋’ค ๋ฐ€ํ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ด์•„ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์— ๋„ฃ์–ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

When youโ€™re ready to eat again, add a spoon or two of water and warm it slowly over low heat โ€” itโ€™ll come back soft and chewy like new.
๋จน๊ธฐ ์ „์—” ๋ฌผ ํ•œ๋‘ ์Šคํ‘ผ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์•ฝ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ฐ์šฐ๋ฉด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ง๋ž‘ํ•ด์ ธ์š”.

If youโ€™re in a hurry, pop it in the microwave for about a minute, give it a quick stir, then heat again until hot.
๋ฐ”์  ๋• ์ „์ž๋ ˆ์ธ์ง€์— 1๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ์ €์–ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐ์›Œ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.

I donโ€™t recommend freezing it though โ€” rice cakes turn hard and lose their chewy texture.
๋‹ค๋งŒ ๋ƒ‰๋™์€ ๋น„์ถ”์ฒœ์ด์—์š”. ๋–ก์ด ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•ด์ ธ์„œ ์ซ€๋“ํ•œ ์‹๊ฐ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”.

If you want, you can freeze just the sauce separately for next time!
ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–‘๋…์†Œ์Šค๋งŒ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋ƒ‰๋™ํ•ด๋‘๋ฉด ๋‹ค์Œ์—๋„ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

Oh, and for cheese tteokbokki โ€” always add fresh cheese when reheating.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์น˜์ฆˆ ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ์šธ ๋•Œ ์ƒˆ ์น˜์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์ง ๋” ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๐Ÿง€


๐Ÿ’ก Tips ํŒ

  • If rice cakes are frozen, soak in warm water for 10 minutes before cooking.
    ๋ƒ‰๋™ ๋–ก์€ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ฌผ์— 10๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ๋‹ด๊ฐ€์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
  • Add a few drops of sesame oil for extra flavor.
    ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ์‚ด์ง ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ํ’๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ข‹์•„์ ธ์š”.
  • Goes perfectly with fried dumplings or kimbap!
    ํŠ€๊น€์ด๋‚˜ ๊น€๋ฐฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๊ถํ•ฉ์ด ์ข‹์•„์š”.

If youโ€™re planning to try making tteokbokki at home, it helps to stop by a Korean grocery store first.

Rice cakes, gochujang, and fish cakes are the key โ€” and once you have them, you can use them for many other Korean dishes too.

They keep well in the fridge and come in handy whenever you want a quick, warm meal with Korean flavor.

In Korea, tteokbokki is often enjoyed together with soondae (Korean blood sausage) and fried snacks (twigim).

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