H Mart is a Korean grocery story that is a wonderland. So many ingredients! Black garlic is particularly wonderful but that’s a story for another day. Today – we will talk about Korean rice cakes or tteotbokki. YouTube tells me this is a common street food item. I got the ones with mozzarella inside from H mart along with all the other ingredients needed. My recipe is a modified version of Mangchi’s recipe. I’ve no idea if it’s accurate but it’s delicious

Step 1: add rice cakes to hot water to defrost for 30 min to an hour

Step 2: make poaching liquid- to 4 cups of vegetable stock (I used better than bouillon), add 2 tbsp of gochujang, 1 tbsp of doubanjang, 1 tbsp of gochugaru and 1 tbsp of sugar. Also add 2 spring onions (chopped into 2 inch pieces ) and 2 smashed cloves of garlic

Step 3: boil rice cakes for 20 min till the sauce is sticky. They will expand

Step 4: eat copious amounts