Baek Jong-won's Golden Recipe: Delicious and Surprisingly Simple Bunsik Tteokbokki

Baek Jong-won's Golden Recipe: Delicious and Surprisingly Simple Bunsik Tteokbokki

Ingredient

2 cups of tteokbokki rice cakes 

2 cups of water

1/2 scallion

a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds 

seasoning

2 tablespoons of gochujang (red pepper paste)

1.5 tablespoons of gochugaru (red pepper flakes)

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

3 tablespoons of sugar

First, put the tteokbokki rice cakes into 2 cups of water (measured using a paper cup) and bring it to a boil over high heat. If using frozen rice cakes, soak them briefly in water before using.

Once the water is boiling, add all the seasoning and mix well until fully dissolved. Continue to boil gently. It's better to mix the seasoning in advance.

When the broth starts to thicken, add finely chopped green onions and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. That's it!

TIP: I'd replace the sugar with a sugar syrup like oligosaccaride or corn syrup and add msg/beef dashida to taste. Also make sure to use a mix of fine and coarse gochugaru if you have it. To adjust spiciness, don't add more gochugaru or gochujang, but instead add something like chopped spicy peppers of your choosing (restaurants would normally add capsaicin extract - problem with adding more gochugaru or gochujang is that it messes up the texture). You should also note that tteok softens the more you cook it, so you may want to reduce the sauce a bit to close the desired consistency before adding the tteok.

Hi I follow Baek Jong-won's recipe to make tteokbokki and all you need is gochujang, soy sauce and sugar. It was delicious to add a little more sugar and green onions. You can adjust it as you taste it. After learning this recipe, I always make my own tteokbokki. It's better than buying it.