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Easy Cheesy Tteokbokki

A popular Korean street food, Tteokbokki is savoury rice cakes cooked in a sweet and spicy gochujang sauce. This recipe adds hardboiled eggs, fish and plenty of cheese for more texture and flavour.
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dinner, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine Korean
Servings 2 servings
Calories 530 kcal

Equipment

  • Any pan

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups ready made korean rice cakes (Tteok)

Optional

  • 250 grams white fish fillet cut into pieces 1-2 inch pieces* uncooked OR 1 cup Korean fish cakes *the chef has used sole.
  • 4 hard boiled eggs, peeled, whole

For the Sauce

  • 2 heaped tablespoons gochujang
  • 1 tablespoon garlic, peeled and crushed
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 3 tablespoons vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon Korean red pepper flakes (gochugaru) or powdered sweet or smoked paprika
  • 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
  • ½ cup spring onions including greens, sliced
  • cups hot water
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon sweet or spicy fresh green peppers, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil *optional
  • ½ tablespoon toasted sesame seeds *optional

For the Topping

  • cup mozzarella shredded
  • ½ cup spring onions including greens, sliced
  • ½ tablespoon toasted sesame seeds *optional

Instructions
 

  • Heat up a pan to high heat, add a drizzle of any cooking oil. Put 2 cups ready made tteok and 4 peeled hard boiled eggs in the pan and cook, turning gently with a spatula until lightly browned on all sides.
  • In a bowl mix all the sauce ingredients in 1½ cups hot water to dissolve the gochujang.
  • Pour the sauce into the tteokbokki and egg pan. Turn the heat to low and keep stirring until the sauce gets thicker - approximately 3-5 mins
  • Add 250 grams white fish fillet cut into pieces 1-2 inch pieces* OR 1 cup Korean fish cakes and stir through gently so that the fish doesn’t break. Cook for another minute.
  • Add ⅔ cup shredded mozzarella on top, put a lid on the pan and cook for a couple of minutes until the cheese melts. You can also finish the cheese in the oven under the grill setting for extra gooeyness.
  • Sprinkle ½ cup sliced spring onions and ½ tablespoon toasted sesame seeds on top. Serve and enjoy!

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Notes

Tteok are Korean rice cakes, the type used for tteokbokki are a cylindrical shape made with glutinous rice - it is usually quite easy to find them in the Asian aisle of the supermarket. 
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