Description
My recipe for how to make tteokbokki without gochujang! Kid friendly yet savory bulgogi tteokbokki!
Ingredients
Scale
- Flat rice cakes 10 oz
- Fish cakes 5 oz
- Ground Meat 5 oz
- Onion (large) ¼
- Carrots (I didn’t have it on this day so I skipped it)
- Mushrooms 4-5
- Green Onions
- Canola oil - 2 TBS
- Water ½ cup
Bulgogi Marinade for Meat
- Soy sauce - 1TBS
- Mirin - 1TBS
- Minced Garlic - 0.5 TBS
- Sugar - 0.5 TBS
Bulgogi Tteokbokki Sauce
- Soy sauce - 4 TBS
- Sugar - 1 TBS
- Cooking Oligo Syrup - 1 TBS
- Sessame Oil - 1 TBS
- Sessame Seeds - 1TBS
Instructions
- If using frozen rice cakes, then soak the rice cakes in a bowl with water for about 5 minutes before using.
- Soak the fish cakes in a bowl of water for about 5 minutes as well.
- Marinade ground meat with the bulgogi marinade and mix well together.
- Chop all vegetables
- On a hot pan, add canola oil (or any other like avocado oil) and chopped green onions for about 30 seconds.
- Add meat to the pan and cook until brown (I added veggies first and then meat…but it really doesn’t matter!)
- Add vegetables (onions, mushrooms, and carrots) and stir fry for about 2 minutes.
- Add rice cakes for about 1 minute and coat rice cakes well with the oil and the rest of the ingredients
- Add tteokbokki sauce and water and cook them while stirring them.
- Once fully cooked, sprinkle sesame seeds
Notes
- Tteokbokki is fully cooked when the rice cake is well coated with the sauce and soft and chewy when you bite into them
- Soy sauce - I love using this soy sauce. Anytime I go to a Korean grocery store, I always make sure I get them while they are on sale!
Substitutions
- Cooking oligo syrup - you can substitute this with honey for healthier sauce
- Flat Rice Cakes - You can use the long topokki rice cakes
- Mushrooms - I used button mushrooms but you can use shitake mushrooms which goes really well with the overall dish
- Ground Beef - you can use bulgogi meat or any thin sliced meat from Korean grocery store (like shabu shabu meat or sukiyaki meat)
- Fish Cakes - You can skip fish cakes if you are not a huge fan or use a different kind, but I LOVE adding fish cakes to my dduboki so this had to be in my dish!
Variations
If you are making a spicy version with ramen, stay tuned for my update on spicy tteokbokki recipe!
Keywords: Bulgogi Tteokbokki