Tteokbokki recipes
How to make tteokbokki at home — street-cart gochujang, rose, cheese, jjajang, mala, rabokki, air fryer, leftovers, and sauce from scratch.
STREET FOOD · Easy · 37 min
Classic Tteokbokki Recipe — How to Make Street-Cart Spicy Rice Cakes
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make classic tteokbokki at home: thin garae-tteok, gochujang sauce, fish cake, and glossy sweet-spicy sauce like a Korean street cart.
Prep 10 min + 15 min soak · Cook 12 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Medium · 32 min
Gungjung Tteokbokki Recipe — Royal Soy (No Gochujang)
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make gungjung tteokbokki: pre-chili palace soy-sesame rice cakes with beef and vegetables. No gochujang, glossy not red.
Prep 20 min · Cook 12 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 22 min
Cheese Tteokbokki Recipe — Mozzarella Blanket School Style
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make cheese tteokbokki: school-style gochujang pot with a mozzarella blanket that softens the heat. Melt off-heat so the cheese does not split.
Prep 10 min · Cook 12 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 24 min
Rose Tteokbokki Recipe — Cream and Gochujang Sauce
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make rose tteokbokki: a strong red sauce, soaked rice cakes, then cream off the boil so the pot stays coral and clingy.
Prep 10 min · Cook 14 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 20 min
Rabokki Recipe — How to Make Ramen Tteokbokki
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make rabokki: braise tteok until 80% done, add ramyun for 3–4 minutes, half the soup packet, extra stock, serve immediately.
Prep 5 min · Cook 15 min · Serves 2
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STREET FOOD · Medium · 30 min
Jjajang Tteokbokki Recipe — Black Bean Sauce Rice Cakes
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make jjajang tteokbokki: fry chunjang with pork and onion, then braise rice cakes in glossy black-bean sauce. Cucumber on top.
Prep 15 min · Cook 15 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 22 min
Mala Tteokbokki Recipe — What It Is and How to Make It
By Tteokbokki Curator
What mala tteokbokki is: Korean spicy rice cakes with Sichuan pepper tingle and chili crisp. How spicy it is, where to buy mala sauce, and a 20-minute pot.
Prep 10 min · Cook 12 min · Serves 4
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SOUP · Easy · 25 min
Eomuk Guk with Tteok — Fish Cake Soup for Tteokbokki Night
By Tteokbokki Curator
Clear anchovy-kelp fish cake soup with tteok coins — the sip that resets heat between spicy tteokbokki bites.
Prep 10 min · Cook 15 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 25 min
Sundae and Tteokbokki Combo — Street Plate at Home
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to plate sundae with tteokbokki like a pojangmacha: heat the blood sausage, cook the red pot, dip — do not drown.
Prep 10 min · Cook 15 min · Serves 4
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STREET FOOD · Easy · 25 min
Tteok Kkochi Recipe — Street-Style Rice Cake Skewers
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make tteok kkochi: blanched rice cakes on sticks with sausage and onion, glazed and grilled like a festival cart.
Prep 15 min + soak · Cook 10 min · Serves 4 skewers
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SAUCE · Easy · 10 min
Tteokbokki Sauce from Scratch — Make-Ahead Gochujang Concentrate
By Tteokbokki Curator
A jarred tteokbokki sauce you mix once and use all week: gochujang, gochugaru, soy, rice syrup — loosen with stock when the cakes go in.
Prep 10 min · Cook 0 min · Serves About 1 cup (2–3 pots)
View recipe →WEEKNIGHT · Easy · 35 min
Air Fryer Tteokbokki — Charred Glaze, Not a Wet Pot
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make air fryer tteokbokki: soak the cakes, toss in a thick gochujang glaze, and air-fry until the edges blister. A wet stew does not belong in the basket.
Prep 15 min + soak · Cook 10 min · Serves 2
View recipe →LEFTOVERS · Easy · 13 min
Leftover Tteokbokki Skillet — Pan-Fry So the Cakes Wake Up
By Tteokbokki Curator
What to do with leftover tteokbokki: a hot skillet, a spoon of water, and an egg. Do not microwave a brick of set starch and call it dinner.
Prep 5 min · Cook 8 min · Serves 1–2
View recipe →WEEKNIGHT · Easy · 40 min
Vegan Tteokbokki Recipe — Kelp-Shiitake Stock, No Fish Cake
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make vegan tteokbokki: kelp and shiitake stock, gochujang sauce, cabbage and scallion. No anchovy, no eomuk, no egg. Check the cake bag for wheat.
Prep 15 min + soak · Cook 15 min · Serves 4
View recipe →WEEKNIGHT · Easy · 32 min
Cream Garlic Tteokbokki — No Gochujang, No Red
By Tteokbokki Curator
A cream-garlic rice-cake skillet for nights with no gochujang — or no chili. Mushrooms, pepper, parmesan. Not street-cart tteokbokki, and not rose.
Prep 10 min + soak · Cook 12 min · Serves 3–4
View recipe →VARIATIONS · Easy · 40 min
Curry Tteokbokki Recipe — Japanese Roux, Korean Rice Cakes
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make curry tteokbokki: a mild Japanese curry roux loosened with stock, then rice cakes and a few vegetables. A street variation, not a palace dish.
Prep 15 min + soak · Cook 18 min · Serves 4
View recipe →STREET FOOD · Easy · 30 min
So-Tteok-So-Tteok — Sausage and Rice Cake Skewers
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make so-tteok-so-tteok: alternate cocktail sausage and tteok on a stick, glaze, and grill. Street snack, not a stew.
Prep 15 min + soak · Cook 10 min · Serves 6 skewers
View recipe →VARIATIONS · Medium · 32 min
Carbonara Tteokbokki — Bacon, Cream, No Gochujang
By Tteokbokki Curator
How to make carbonara tteokbokki: bacon, black pepper, cream or yolk, rice cakes. A soju-bar pasta pot — not rose, because there is no chili paste.
Prep 10 min + soak · Cook 12 min · Serves 3–4
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