Tteokbokki: The Immortal Korean Dish.
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0 Tteokbokki (Simmered rice cake)
The time may change, but the love for tteokbokki by Korean people will endlessly be the same.
Tteokbokki has been a long part of every Korean’s lives
The Original recipe was made by simmering beef, seafood, or mushrooms in soy sauces, spices, and oil with rice cake and various vegetables. In older texts, the dish appears under the name “byeongja.”
Historically, tteokbokki was considered a food that was eaten by nobles and members of the royal court.
Tteokbokki / Ddeokbokki / Dukbokki (떡볶이) is a very popular Korean street food made from small-sized garae-tteok (가래떡) (white, long, cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면) “rice cake noodles”. Among other things, these recipes are made with Korean rice cake, Korean Fish cakes, Korean soup stock/dashi stocks, and gochujang (Korean chili paste)!
Todays, variations also include curry-tteokbokki, cream sauce-tteokbokki, jajang-tteokbokki, rose- tteokbokki, galbi-tteokbokki and many more!!! It’s super delicious, umami-rich, and highly addictive!!
Varieties: like other popular Korean dishes, tteokbokki has numerous variations and fusions. Boiled eggs and pan-fried mandu (dumplings) were traditionally added to Tteokbokki. Ingredients such as seafood, short ribs, instant noodles, and chewy noodles are some common additions to this dish.
The birth of Tteokbokki
- Haemul-tteok-bokki, (해물떡볶이; “seafood Tteokbokki”) features seafood as its second ingredient.
- Galbi-tteok-bokki (갈비떡볶이; “short rib tteokbokki”) features short ribs as secondary ingredients.
- Ra-bokki (라볶이; “instant noodle tteokbokki”) and jol-bokki (쫄볶이; “chewy noodle tteokbokki”) are similar variants that add noodles to tteok-bokki. Ra-bokki adds ramyeon (ramen) noodles, and jjol-bokki adds chewy jjolmyeon wheat noodles.
It was developed in 1953, the year the Korean War ended, by a woman named Ma Bok-rim in the Sindang-dong neighborhood in Seoul. The chewy rice cake in a spicy gochujang sauce instantly became popular as an affordable comfort snack.
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