TteokBokkI (떡볶이) is one of the most popular Korean street foods. Since the way to cook this food is very easy and simple, Korean people often make it at home too. Depending on your personal tastes, you can make it spicier or sweeter. This snack has many different names according to its ingredients such as cheese TteokBokkI, RaBokkI (Ramen noodles), GanJang TteokBokkI, or GungJung TteokBokkI (soy sauce).
Yield: 3 Servings
Short Korean Lesson: *^^*
- EoRinEe (어린이) = Child
- EoRinEeDeul (어린이들) = Children
Video Instructions
Main Ingredients
- 2 Cups (15) Sticky Rice Cake Sticks
- 2 Fried Fish Cakes
- 1 Cup Cabbage
- ⅔ Cup Onion
- ½ Cup Carrot
- 1 Green Onion
Broth Ingredients
- 2½ Cups Water
- 6 Pieces Kelp (1×2 Inch)
- 1 Dried Anchovy Pack (Optional)
Sauce Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp Red Pepper Paste
- 1 Tbsp Red Pepper Powder
- 2 Tbsp Corn Syrup
- ½ Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- ½ Tbsp Minced Garlic
- Some Sesame Seeds (to garnish)
Directions
Slice ½ cup worth of an onion into quarter inch pieces. Cut ½ cup worth of a carrot diagonally. Cut 1 green onion into ½-inch pieces. Cut ⅔ cup worth of cabbage into quarter inch pieces.
To make the broth, boil 2½ cups of water, 6 pieces of kelp, 2 pieces of fish cake, and 1 dried anchovy pack together for about 10 minutes. The dried anchovy pack is optional.
Remove the kelp, fish cakes, and anchovy pack from the broth. Keep the fish cakes for later and discard the kelp and anchovy pack.
Cut the cooked fish cakes and the sticky rice cakes into 2 inch pieces.
In the broth, add 3 Tbsp of red pepper paste, 1 Tbsp of red pepper powder, 2 Tbsp of corn syrup, ½ Tbsp of sugar, 1 Tbsp of soy sauce, and ½ Tbsp of minced garlic. Depending on your taste, you can make your tteokbokki sweeter or spicier by changing the amount of sugar or red pepper paste. If you can’t eat too spicy food, skip the red pepper powder. You can use sugar instead of corn syrup. Cook it for 5 minutes on medium-high.
Add the rice cakes, carrot, onion, and cabbage into the broth.
Cook it for about 5 minutes until the rice cakes become soft on medium-high.
Add the fish cakes and cook for 1 more minute.
Add the green onion, cook for another minute, and then turn off the heat.
Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top of TteokBokKi to serve.
Enjoy! 
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mabuhay from the philippines. your blog is definitely very helpful and informative. i have many friends and students from your country, and i absolutely love your country’s cuisine. thanks a lot for your efforts. God bless.
hi Anna Gonzalez,
Nice to meet you !!!
Thanks.. God bless you too..hehe
woooww…
I just found your blog through flickr.
I’ve tried few korean food and so far Tteokbokki is my favorite!
Love your blog anyway, I’m gonna try to cook the dish by myself if I could find the ingredients easily.
Cheers!
Hi cathey,
Nice to meet you !!!
Yep try Korean food by yourself.. hehe You have a nice picture. Hope to see you again..thanks !!!
Wow! Another of my favorite dish I could make at home. I just happened to have all the incredients and the craving, so gave it a try. It came out really good and much better than packaged ones I’ve been eating.
Hi cruiser,
yep~~ homemade food is the best…hehe thanks for good news !!!
About the seaweed soup, I will try those but not this time, maybe some other time hehe so check this out that I’ve uploaded a pic of my first ddeokbokki in 2 weeks ago http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb110/angelguy2008/OtherStuffs/Image038.jpg
hi,Ian aka filoguy2009
hehe.. I will post in on my forum. thanks 
try other food..and send me more korean cooking pictures…hehe
wow ~~` thank you for sharing your picture with us. That looks yummy. I’m proud of you.
Thanks hehe
Sure, I will if I get a chance to make Japchae and mini fried chicken on my birthday on Wednesday October 7th 2009 hehe… but I have to do a little groceries for Japchae and mini fried chicken ingredients hehe… I will do that on this Tuesday (6th October) after work… So is that true, Japchae isn’t spicy but still plain flavour? ‘coz our Filipino is the same as your korean style and also chinese/vietnamese, etc have all the same type of foods but different tastes =)
Hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
Have a great weekend.
Yes, it’s not spicy but taste very good. I hope you will like it. thanks
annyong haseo, Aeri-unnie!
thanks for the reply^^
well….i can’t read hangul at all…so…i’m not sure what kind of gochujang i have..kekekekeke….
all i can read are romanized words, “sunchang gochujang”, i don’t know if that’s the name of the variety or only the maker company’s name. and you’re right! it’s not pure red pepper sauce but has other ingredients, such as corn malt syrup, fluor, soybean, glutinous rice, salt, and water (thank God they translated the ingredients in english…^^;;)
do you know other Korean dishes i could make using this sauce?
kamsa hamnida unnie~~~~ X)
Hi, cimol
That is brand name.. plus it’s saying..it’s red bean paste. The ingredients sound like… for gochujang (Red pepper paste).. so to me it sounds like..it’s a normal gochujang. When you tasted it.. it has vinegar.. sesame oil..sesame seeds.. or sugar flavor ??? if it’s not in it.. it’s just plain gochujang… which you can use for many kinds of spicy Korean food I posted..and mentioned..red pepper paste. 
thanks 
Haha.. you are cute.
hi, Aeri-unni
thank you so much for posting the recipe
i want to ask something….
do you think i can make the tteokbokki using gochujang sauce? my friend from korea gave me that sauce as a present, but i’m not sure how to use that sauce….kekeke…
thank you so much in advance
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Hi, cimol
Nice to meet you !!!
aha.. gochujang sauce… I guess it’s already made sauce..right.. the sauce is in tube type container ??? it’s not pure gochujang…and has some other seasonings in it ??
because there are different types of that kind of gochujang sauce… some is for bibimbap… some is for dipping raw fish.. (sweet and sour flavor..) so I’m not sure what kind of sauce you have exactly.. can you tell me what is it ??? then I can answer your question more clearly..
Wow! That looks delicious! I’m really young, but I love to try and cook Korean food! I’m addicted >.<. I just came across your blog today while looking on how to make good kimchi. And I would LOVE to try this <3.! Too bad I can never find rice cakes in any of the asian store I go to.
Hi, Jennie
Come back please ~~~~
Nice to meet you !!! Hehe..that’s great that you love Korean food. Someday, I’m going to post how to make rice cakes at home.. so people who can’t find them in the store like you can still cook tteokbokki at home.
Hi Jennie,
You can at least buy it at the local korean shop if you have it in your area or if it’s in the City of where you are from… they have rice cakes at korean shop… i bought mine in the city here in Australia…
Good afternoon!
I’ve just cooked my first Tteokbokki already and guess what, I did put sugar about twice just to make it sweeter flavour but it doesn’t taste like it… it’s kinda bit spicy… I put 2 sugars…
Is it because I put too much hot pepper paste?
Now my cooking is ok hehe…
Hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
Oh.. you tried the recipe. Maybe you can’t handle spicy food well. Tteobokki is not the super spicy food..but it is spicy food. If you just followed the same amount of the red pepper paste, it should be okay…unless you can’t eat spicy food well.. The sugar could cut the spiciness a little though.. so You didn’t like it much ?? oops~~ Thanks for telling me your experience.
Oops, i answer in a wrong comment below lol… about my experience on Tteokbokki, yes i love it… that’s why it’s my first time trying to taste the sauce so it’s not quite spicy much, just a little bit hehe… so it’s ok, maybe next time, I will make some again or maybe Japchae and korean bbq chicken haha… just for my birthday if i want to cook it by myself on my days off…
hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
hehe anyway.. Have a great weekend. Hope to see you again~~~ 
haha.. you left several comments today. thanks !!!
It’s great that you are going to cook some Korean food for your birthday. How about adding Korean birthday soup..(Seaweed soup) also in your menu.
a korean birthday soup (seaweed soup)? uhm, i’m not sure if i can make them some hehe… i don’t cook much food hehe…
Hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
Yes, the birthday soup is healthy and yummy. maybe someday when you have time to cook..try it then..hehe thanks
Also, i forgot, even if I don’t buy a korean soy sauce, should I use any soy sauce? (too many soy sauces we have it in the cupboard/cabinet).
hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
Yes, you can use the soy sauce you have. Japanese or chinese soy sauce will be the closest one with Korean one. thanks !!!
ah sure, i have chinese soy sauce which is alright to use hehe thanks =)
hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
You are welcome.
Sorry i post twice ‘coz my email addy is wrong lol… anyways…
hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
haha.. It’s okay.. don’t worry.
Hi, how are you? I would love to try tteokbokki (rice cakes and fish cakes together like you did in here)… but how I wish I want sweeter flavour ‘coz I don’t eat spicy that often…
so should I need corn syrup or i can add sugar to make it taste sweeter ?
so for the fish cake like you said it to leave it in the broth for later, so just leave it there or take it out from the broth?
Hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
after boil the fish cake in the broth for sometime.. take it from the broth…and cut it..and add to the tteokbokki back later. thanks !!!
I’m pretty good.. thanks how about you?
aha..if you don’t want too spicy food.. cut the spicy ingredients.. of course you can make it sweeter with adding sugar or corn syrup too.
It can be easier to understand what I did for the fish cake if you watch the video.
I’m good thanks, but I feel like sick again (coughing which I dislike it) but it’s time to go for work today lol…
Sure, I’ll add sugar but white sugar that is?
I will watch your video after work because I’m too lazy to view it hehe
Thanks again, I’ll come back on the net after buying fish cake and rice cake in the City (we have it at korean shops). Then I will start making some on Wednesday…
Should I keep the Tteokbokki (sweet flavoured) in the fridge for my work lunch on Friday? (Today is Tuesday in Australia hehe)
Hi, Ian aka filoguy2009
Wow, you left many comments.. hehe thanks.. How do you feel now.. you are okay ?? It will be difficult that you have to go to work when you are sick. I hope you feel better by now.
Yes, you can keep it in the refrigerator and reheat it in the microwave for your lunch or the rice cake will be too hard to eat without reheating.
Hi Aeri…
No worries, Yeah I wrote so many comments here hehe and of course, about being sick on last September 10-something, I got feeling better before…
And I did reheat it at work, but you know what? some of them are soft and some of them are a bit hard because I put it on microwave for 1-2 minutes… hehe
I love how I cook my first experience on Tteokbokki hehe… I really enjoy eating those but next month, maybe I will learn how to make a Korean BBQ Chicken (some drumsticks and some chicken breast in cubed) depending whether I can cook some spicy and plain for my birthday on October 7th 2009… but is it hard to make plain Korean bbq chicken or any meats? if i buy korean bbq sauce. I was so confuse when I google the image of bbq chicken haha coz they have different pics of it…
Hi Aeri, I just tried this last night, and it was a major success! I’m not much of a cook, nor am I Korean, but I’m a huge fan of korean food. Thanks for making it so easy to follow. I’ll be trying out your other recipes too!
Hi, Eleen
hehe Thanks for trying my recipe. I hope you can find more recipes you can enjoy from my blog. 
see you again~~~
wow.. major success ??? Good job !!!
Opps !
hehe sorry !
It is not tteokbokki ! Because my friend told me that it is just snack and you dont eat it in a bowl ! ^^ hehe … maybe just kimchi soup ^^
Hi, Annie
haha.. it’s okay..
so you wanted to eat that dish when you watched that MV ??? Have a great week ~~~
Hello Aeri n_n
I was just wondering if this MV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqXS3b8958) on youtube (Only Wind Only Wind by: SG Wannabe ft. Kim Jong Kook) on 5:53 was
TteokBokKi ?
Oh ! I dont want to bother you, so please check on your own time ! ^^ I have tried the thin oval rice cakes before.. but not sticks ! my mom makes it for me and I have always loved eating it every since I was a young.. ^^
Hi, Annie
lol.. I watched the MV.. I can guess that is some kind of fish stew.. or just stew.. =P It was cute guessing, annie..hehe
The fish cakes were very soggy after boiling them for 10 mins. Is that how they should be? Also, I didn’t realise that you put carrots and cabbage into the recipe. I thought it was just fish cakes and rice cakes (and sometimes ramen).
My friends and I enjoyed this dish as well. Thanks for this recipe. I have always wanted to make it after watching so many Korean dramas and seeing the actors eat this at street stalls and restaurants!
Hi, crzycpl
Yep.. that’s normal.. when you take the fish cakes out..and cook other thing… it becomes a little harder again.. since you add them to the ddeokbokki almost at the end.. its’ fine.. there are different kinds of ddeokbokki depending on your taste..I mean you can add any kinds of vegetables you want.. hehe.. thanks..
Hi Aeri,
My korean housemate made this dish alot and i loved it so much! But she moved out so no one is going to make this yummy dish for me…
So I am going to try and make it myself using your recipe!
Can I use cornstarch instead of corn syrup? I don’t know if I can find it here…
Hi, Risa
Oh~~~ I’m sorry that you don’t have her anymore…but as you said, yes you can make it by yourself now.
I hope you can enjoy this recipe as much as your housemate’s dish.
cornstarch and corn syrup are totally different ingredients. =P I think you can use sugar or honey instead of corn syrup.. I will recommend to use sugar more.. thanks !!!
ahh! sorry typo >< *Aeri-unni ~~ my bad!
Hi, Fei
haha.. it’s okay~~~
Hi Aeris-unni!!
I’m so glad i found your ddekbokki recipe~~ hehe i’m going to go make it for my boyfriend tomolow~ He loves it sweeter and likes to dip kimbap in the spicy sauce! Thanks again! =)
Fei
Hi. Fei ^^
Nice to meet you~~
Oh~~ you are a sweet girlfriend. I hope that your boyfriend will like this recipe. Thanks..
I made this last night and it turned out just like I remembered. I also like mine a little sweeter so I added more sugar. Next time, I might try even more sugar. Thanks for the video!
Hi, Andrea
Wow, you tried another recipe.. hehe my husband likes it sweeter also. ^^ Thanks for comment !!! try more more more korean food..hohoho
in the meantime, i wish u an early merry xmas! god bless you.
Hi, layping !!
Thank you !!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
I might greet you again later..hehe
This is a delicious dish to make. I prefer mine with a little more sugar in it than Aeri does. It is spicy and sweet, and all of the flavors combine very well.
Hi, honey~~
okay, if you be sweet, then I will add a little bit of more sugar next time for you. oki ?? hehe thanks !!!
oh.. no~~~ I’m a chef Aeri in our kitchen… just eat whatever I give to you.. hehe…
GET UP !!!!! (Can you hear me???)
hi! i just went to the korean store and bought all the ingredients for tteokbokki and gimbap. will make them for xmas. will tell u how will it go!
Hi, layping
wow.. kimbap and tteokbokki..
Good choice !!!!! haha.. it will be interesting menu for xmas.. different..right ?? Good luck and Enjoy !!! Thanks !!
Hi there! I found your website on google. I’ve finally found a Tteokbokki recipe!! Thanks so much! I’m craving it right now ><”
Hi, Clar
THANKS !!!
Nice to meet you !!
I’m happy to hear that you found my website on google. hehe..yes try my Tteokbokki recipe and see if you like it. Enjoy !!
OMG! You don’t have this posted on youtube! it looks SOOO GOOD! it looks ALOT tastier than Maangchi’s version. I will definitly have to make this!
Hi, arleen ^^
hehe.. If you have a chance, please try this and tell me if you like it. Someday, I’m going to post ra-bok-ki since somebody requested it to me. it’s almost same with ddeok-bok-ki..but just have ramen noodle in it…anyway. thanks
Aeri, that looks soooo goood!!
I shouldn’t visit your site until AFTER lunch. My mouth is watering. Drools….
Mimi
Hi, Mimi
How are you? Did you have a good weekend? !!! I hope you did.
haha.. you are funny. Thanks for comment !! I will post more recipes for you soon. hehe bye~~~~