Ttukppokki is famous Korean fastfood. When you visit Korea, you can often see them sold in the street along with fried dumplings, and seafood cake soup.
Often looks like this:
Street Stores
Left top is ttukppokki
It’s a big part of Korean culture. It’s fast, convenient and cheap. People often stop by these temporary food store and eat a quick meal/ snack or sometimes have a drink with friends late at night.
There are numbers of variations you can make with this dish. For example, you can add ramen noodle, or add fried dumplings and sauté them. Also, there are non-spicy version of this, in which the sauce is made from the black bean paste (I will post this recipe later).
To begin, here are lists of ingredients (feel free to add or remove any):
~ 2 cups of rice cake, choice of vegetable (e.g. cabage, onion, scallion, etc)
For the sauce: 3 tbsn of Red pepper paste, 1 tbsn of soy sauce, 2 tbsn of honey, 1 tbsn of sugar(or sweetener), 1/2 tbsn of garlic
* try little of the sauce and feel free to change ingredients
Now the process:
1. boil 2 1/2 cups of water
2. the sauce and stir it well.
3. add rice cake and other desired ingredients
** when you are using frozen rice cake, unthaw it in the water.
4. let it boil and stir until the soup gets thick.
5. serve it on the plate and enjoy the delicious spiciness! 😉
It should look something like this.
If you like spicy food and chewy texture, this is definitely MUST try Korean dish.
I hope you will enjoy it.
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