Cheesy Tteokbokki Recipe

This Simple Cheesy Tteokbokki recipe is so quick to make it just needs 4 to 5 ingredients and two steps to make. Just add Korean rice cakes, water, and topokki sauce into a pot, top it off with shredded cheese and spring onions and you are ready to enjoy this cheesy Korean rice cake based snack.

Cheesy Tteokbokki Recipe :

Ingredients :

• 500 grams Korean rice cakes
• 4 cups water
• 150 grams hot topokki sauce
• Shredded Cheese
• Spring onions for garnish

Steps :

1. Cook the rice cakes in a pan with water. Pour in the topokki sauce and mix well. Simmer together until the sauce has reduced. Top with a lot of cheese.

2. Simmer at low heat until the cheese has melted. Garnish with spring onions and enjoy !

What is Cheesy Tteokbokki ?

“Cheesy Tteokbokki”, “Cheese dduk bok ki”, or simply “Rice Cake with Mozzarella” is the ever popular snack we might think of when we think of Korean street food -snacks, from seeing them in Korean dramas, tv series, webtoons, comics, manga, or at food channels on Youtube. There’s just nothing like a chewy spicy but still addictingly good snack to make your afternoons a bit more fun.

Tteokbokki is a Korean street food snack that has been eaten since the 19th century. Made of ‘garae-tteok’ or ‘cylindrical rice cakes’, these are white in color, made of glutton rice flour, salt, and water, stir-fried and simmered in a savory spicy sauce made of gochujang or ‘Korean red chili paste’, red pepper flakes, soy sauce, sesame, a bit of water or broth. Sometimes additional fish cakes are added, spam, sausages, short ribs, mandu ( dumplings), eggs, scallions, topped with mozzarella cheese or a blend of cheeses at the end. Served once it’s melted. More modern takes of the Tteokbokki are the cream sauce tteokbokki, ja-jang tteokbokki, curry tteokbokki, seafood tteokbokki, pasta tteokbokki and more. With the many lists of tteokbokki cheese recipes on the internet. We’re sure this recipe will be the quickest and easiest.

Cheesy Tteokbokki Sauce Recipe

One of the fastest and best cheesy tteokbokki recipes you can find on the internet. All you need to do is place the frozen rice cakes in a pan at medium heat. Adding some water to help tenderize the rice cakes. Pour in the topokki sauce ( or spicy based sauce packet ) you can find all these ingredients in any Korean convenience stores, big and small Korean grocery stores. Once the rice cakes have softened and the sauce has reduced and thickened to half. Top it with shredded cheese like mozzarella, brie, cheddar, any cheese or a mix of all your favorite ones. Let this simmer uncovered or covered if you want the cheese to melt faster. Once melted, decorate the tip with spring onions and your ready to enjoy this deliciously spicy, cheesy, chewy snack!

Questions

• Additional Cheesy Tteokbokki ingredients
  • For a less spicy cheesy tteokbokki recipe, try making “Cheese Rose Tteokbokki recipe” by only using 1 – 2 cups of water, simmering the rice cakes with the water, adding sausages if you’d like , cooking these until tender before pouring in spicy sauce and ½ heavy cream.
  • If you want a fuller dish, add ramen halfway through simmering time of the rice cakes, before adding the cheese to make “Cheesy Tteokbokki recipe with Ramen”.
  • For an even more spicy cheesy tteokbokki recipe, add a tablespoon or 2 of gochujang sauce into the recipe, or 2 teaspoons to ½ tablespoon of Korean pepper flakes.
  • You can also use ready or premade seasonings like curry powder, Italian seasoning, or taco seasoning, or any other flavorings while simmering the rice cakes.

• Cheesy tteokbokki recipe without gochujang ?

While it might change the usual taste of tteokbokki, try alternating it with sriracha sauce. This also makes for a good vegan and gluten-free substitute. Other spicy and non spicy options also include: Korean pepper flakes, Hoisin sauce, chilli garlic sauce, Miso paste, Chimichurri Sauce, or Tahini paste.

• Tteokbokki substitutes

While these spicy mozzarella rice cakes are easy to find. When you have craving and you don’t have rice cakes on hand or the store doesn’t have it in stock you can also try substituting these with the following :

• Fried tofu skins
• Rolled up soften rice paper ( you can all put veggies, cheese, hotdogs or any meats inside)
• When using ‘softer’ substitutes, lessen the water into half or ⅓ then simmer for a shorter period as these do not need a longer cooking time.
• Pasta like penne, fusilli, ziti, cavatappi, or even rigatoni ( stuffing these with cheese if you’d like)
• Udon noodles
• But if you want a cheesier tteokbokki dish try using tteokbokki with cheese inside or any cheese stuffed rice cake.

Try our other Yummy Korean inspired Recipes :

• Korean-style Fried Chicken Wings
• Gimbap ( Korean Rice Roll )  
• Kimchi Fried Rice  
• Gochujang Pork Belly
• Cheesy Potato Pancakes

Cheesy Tteokbokki Resipi ( Tagalog ) :

Mga Sangkap :

• 500 gramo ng Korean rice cakes
• 4 tasa ng tubig
• 150 gramo hot topokki sauce
• Keso
• Dahon ng sibuyas pang dekorasyon

Paano Lutuin :

1. Lutuin ang mga rice cakes sa kawali na may kasamang tubig. Buhusan ng topokki sauce at haluan ng mabuti. Pakuluin hanggang kumapal ang sarsa. Takpan ang itaas ng maraming keso.
2. Pakuluan ng mababang init hanggang matunaw ang keso. Dekorasyonan ng dahon ng sibuyas at i-enjoy!