Korean Rice Cake Recipe

Also known as ttok or tteok, Korean rice cake is a cake made from rice flour that is steamed. This peculiar Korean dish is considered a holiday food and is often eaten throughout the year.

There are various types of Korean cake, but this time we will make a garaetteok. If you want to learn how to make Korean rice cake, read on and get to work. You will see that you do not need to be an expert or have special utensils, we show you a simple way to prepare this recipe with few ingredients so that you do not stay without trying it. Best of all, you can make it quickly in your microwave, so let’s get cooking.

Ingredients to make Korean Rice Cake:

• 180 grams of rice flour
• 100 cubic centimeters of hot water
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 splash of sesame oil

How to make Korean Rice Cake:

1. To start the Korean rice cake recipe, mix the rice flour, salt to taste and hot water in a bowl, adding this last ingredient little by little until you get a smooth and slightly lumpy texture.
2. Tip: the bowl or container must be microwaveable.
3. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, leaving a whole uncovered, and heat the preparation in the microwave for 1 minute.
4. Depending on the power of your microwave, you may need 2-5 minutes.
5. You will notice that the color of the dough changes slightly and becomes a bit transparent.
6. At this point, it is time to knead. You can lean on a rolling pin and hit the dough to make it more elastic.
7.  Keep kneading until you get a homogeneous and very smooth texture.
8. To create the Korean rice cake, form a cylinder about 1 cm in diameter and cut churros 10 cm long.
9. Drop a few drops of sesame oil on the cakes and they are ready to eat.
10. That’s how easy it is to make Korean Rice Cake! With the garaetteok ready you can make other recipes, we will explain it to you below!

Korean rice cake and other recipes

By itself, Korean rice cake is tasty, but it can also be roasted or roasted and covered with honey or condensed milk. In addition, garaetteok is also used to prepare a very popular street dish in Korea, tteokbokki, where the cake is fried in a thick, spicy sauce.

This garaetteok recipe is considered the foundation for other Korean variants, whether sweet or spicy, and it goes great with beef, pork, chicken, and even seafood. Without a doubt, it is a very original recipe that you can prepare with few ingredients and that is practical and easy, so go ahead and prepare this recipe for Korean rice cake and surprise your family with a different dish.