STREET FOOD · Easy · 37 min

Classic Tteokbokki Recipe — How to Make Street-Cart Spicy Rice Cakes

Name: Classic Tteokbokki Recipe — How to Make Street-Cart Spicy Rice Cakes
Ingredients: 400g garae-tteok (thin 0.8cm), soaked 15 min warm water; 2 sheets eomuk, sliced; 3 Tbsp gochujang, 1 Tbsp gochugaru, 2 Tbsp sugar, 1 Tbsp rice syrup; 2 Tbsp soy, 2 cups anchovy-kelp stock; 2 scallions, 2 boiled eggs; Sesame seeds, sesame oil

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.

TL;DR

Soak thin garae-tteok, simmer in anchovy-kelp stock with gochujang, gochugaru, soy, and rice syrup until the cakes puff and the sauce clings. Fish cake and scallion in the last two minutes. The longer method is /blog/how-to-make-tteokbokki/.

Prep 10 min + 15 min soakCook 12 minServes 4

Ingredients

400g garae-tteok (thin 0.8cm), soaked 15 min warm water
2 sheets eomuk, sliced
3 Tbsp gochujang, 1 Tbsp gochugaru, 2 Tbsp sugar, 1 Tbsp rice syrup
2 Tbsp soy, 2 cups anchovy-kelp stock
2 scallions, 2 boiled eggs
Sesame seeds, sesame oil

Steps

Simmer stock, whisk gochujang, gochugaru, sugar, syrup, soy until dissolved.
Add drained tteok, simmer 8 min until puffed and sauce thickens via starch.
Add eomuk and scallions 2 min.
Finish sesame oil off heat; top eggs.
Serve immediately — tteok waits.

Tips

Soak is non-negotiable or centers stay chalky.

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What you'll need

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Gochugaru (Korean chili flakes)Medium-coarse flakes for kimchi color; freeze the bulk bag.
Gochujang (Korean chili paste)Fermented chili paste for tteokbokki, jjigae, and bibimbap.
Garae-tteok (cylinder rice cakes)Cylinder rice cakes for tteokbokki and tteokguk. Check rice vs wheat on the label.
Toasted sesame oilFinish japchae, gimbap, and tteokbokki off the heat.
Dried anchovies and kelpThe stock behind tteokbokki and many stews. Gut large anchovies before simmering.

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More Korean food

Relevant pages on the two hub sites — recipes and a BBQ directory on bulgogi.ai, street rice cakes on tteokbokki.ai.

bulgogi.ai — recipes & BBQ directory →Marinades, cuts, and a USA Korean BBQ map.
Rice-cake storage (tteok.ai) →Fresh vs refrigerated vs frozen garae — before you set the sauce.