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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.
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Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 2 servings
Course: Dinner, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine: Korean
Calories: 530
Ingredients Equipment Method Video Notes

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
  • 1½ 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
  • ⅔ cup mozzarella shredded
  • ½ cup spring onions including greens, sliced
  • ½ tablespoon toasted sesame seeds *optional

Equipment

  • Any pan

Method
 

  1. 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.
  2. In a bowl mix all the sauce ingredients in 1½ cups hot water to dissolve the gochujang.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.