Korean Hot and Spicy Rice Cake | Tteokbokki is a highly popular Korean street food and a delicious comfort food. You can make it at home with this easy tteokbokki recipe. The chewy rice cake in a spicy gochujang sauce instantly became popular as an affordable comfort snack.
Tteokbokki is made with a type of rice cake, a cylinder-shaped white rice cake made with short grain rice. You can find these rice cakes freshly made, refrigerated, or frozen at Korean markets. They come in various shapes and sizes. Needless to say, locally made fresh ones are the best ones to use if available. Otherwise, use refrigerated (or frozen) ones.

INGREDIENTS
• 500 Grams of cylinder shaped rice cake
• 2 sheets of fish cake cut into bite-size pieces
• 3 cups of water
• 2 Green onions (cut into 2 inch size)
• ¼ cup Korean hot pepper flakes
• ¼ cup Korean hot pepper paste
• ¼ cup Fish sauce / Soy sauce
• 1 Tbsp Granulated Sugar

METHOD
1. In a wide heavy bottom pan add 3 cups water. Heat it in medium flame.

2. When the water is hot add Korean hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, sugar and fish sauce/soy sauce.

3. Mix well and bring it to boil.


4. When its started to boil add rice cakes, fish cake and green onions Stir gently.



5. Cook for 10 minutes in a medium heat. after 10 minutes the sauce gets thicken


6. Now add hard boiled eggs and cook for 5 more minutes or cook until the rice cake turns soft and the sauce thickens and looks shiny.


7. Remove from the heat, and finally garnish with sesame seeds and some chopped green onion

8. Serve hot.

TIPS
• Instead of adding water you can use anchovy broth for more flavor. If you are using anchovy broth then avoid using fish/soy sauce.
• If you are not using Fish cake and hard boiled eggs then add more rice cakes.
• If the rice cake is not soft enough, add more water and continue stirring until soften.
• When you use freshly made rice cake, it takes shorter time. If you use frozen rice cake, thaw it out and soak in cold water to soften it before cooking.