What does it taste like?
Mild and very chewy.
Rice products
Korean rice cakes
떡
Common aliases
rice cakes · korean rice cakes · tteok · tteokbokki rice cakes
What is Korean rice cakes?
A practical Korean cooking ingredient used to build balanced flavor and texture in everyday dishes such as rice meals, soups, stews, and banchan.
How is it used?
Simmer in spicy tteokbokki sauce or soup.
Where can you buy it?
Find refrigerated or frozen cylinder-shaped rice cakes.
How should you store it?
Refrigerate or freeze according to the package.
Possible substitutes
There is no close texture substitute; thick udon can carry the sauce differently.
Recipes using Korean rice cakes
Soups & Stews
Maesaengi Soup with Joraengi Rice Cakes(매생이조랭이떡국)
Chewy joraengi rice cakes, maesaengi seaweed, and oysters are simmered in a light anchovy broth and seasoned with soup soy sauce.
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Soups & Stews
Mushroom and Perilla Seed Soup(버섯 들깨탕)
A rich, nutty soup with assorted mushrooms, burdock root, rice cakes, and freshly ground perilla seed broth.
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Soups & Stews
Seaweed Joraengi Rice Cake Soup(미역 조랭이 떡국)
A nutty rice cake soup with seaweed and burdock simmered in ground perilla seed broth and finished with garlic.
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Side Dishes
Steamed Tteokgalbi-Wrapped Rice Cakes(떡갈비찜)
Rice cakes wrapped with eggplant and seasoned minced pork and beef, browned, steamed, glazed with a citrusy yuja sauce, and finished with lotus root chips.
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Street Food30 min
Tteokbokki(떡볶이)
Chewy Korean rice cakes simmered in a glossy, sweet-spicy gochujang sauce with fish cake and green onion.
EasySpicy
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