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Tteokbokki (Korean: 떡볶이), [pronunciation?] or simmered rice cake, is a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white, cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면; lit. rice cake noodles) or commonly tteokbokki-tteok (떡볶이 떡; lit. tteokbokki rice cakes).
Garae-tteok (가래떡) is a long, cylindrical tteok (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour. [1] [2] Grilled garae-tteok is sometimes sold as street food. [3]Thinly (and usually diagonally) sliced garae-tteok is used for making tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. [4]
The history of rice cakes goes back to the primitive agricultural society. It is presumed that it is because at least about the 7th to 8th centuries B.C., there are records of sowing seeds and plowing and farming in this land, or because almost all of them are found in the ruins like Galdol (a flat stone used as a tool when grinding fruit against a grind stone) or Dolhwag (a small mortar made ...
Tteokguk [2] (Korean: 떡국) or sliced rice cake soup [2] is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup with thinly sliced rice cakes . Eating tteokguk on New Year's Day is traditionally believed to grant good luck for the year and confer one sal (a year of age).
Hwajeon (화전) – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose; Bukkumi (부꾸미), pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape [3] Juak (주악), made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried.
Glutinous rice is soaked, ground into flour, and then steamed in a siru (rice cake steamer). [8] The rice may or may not then be pounded. Sometimes, the rice is ground after being steamed instead of before. Chapssal-tteok can be coated with gomul (powdered sesame or beans) and steamed, or it may be boiled and then coated.
Injeolmi (Korean: 인절미, pronounced [in.dʑʌl.mi]) is a variety of tteok, or Korean rice cake, made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice flour, which is shaped into small pieces and usually covered with steamed powdered dried beans or other ingredients.
Omegi-tteok (Korean: 오메기떡) is a type of tteok (Korean rice cakes) particular to the region of the Jeju Island, the largest island of the Korean Peninsula.Its traditional form is actually a by-product of the process of making omegi sul (sul is a Korean word for alcoholic beverages).