Wednesday, June 4, 2008

[Korean] Red Sauce Rice Cake

Red Sauce Rice Cake (serves 2)
  Korean name : Ddeok-bok-ki
  Rice cake : Ddeok




Ingredients [click here for details]

20 pieces of rice cake
(This could be depending upon rice cake makers, but I used about 10oz.)
1/4 large onion, sliced
2 handfuls of cabbage, sliced into large pieces
(I used lettuce, but cabbabe is better with this dish.)
2 green onions, cut into 2 inch pieces
1.5 Tbsp  Red pepper paste
1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1Tbsp  minced garlic
1 Tbsp  corn syrup
(you can always substitute this with honey.)
1/2Tbsp  sugar
1 Tbsp red pepper flakes
a pinch of paprika powder
[optional]a little bit of any meat pieces, chopped (I used 2-of-thumb-size pork.)
[optional]1 sheet of 5*6 inch fish cake, sliced into large pieces
a pinch of sesame seeds and finely chopped green onion for garnish


Cooking Instruction

1. Put 1.5 Tbsp of Red pepper paste, 1 Tbsp of Soy Sauce,1Tbsp of minced garlic, 1 Tbsp of  malt syrup (or honey), and 1/2Tbsp  sugar in 1 cup of water on a skillet. Add meat to it, if you like. Bring it to boil.


2. When it boils, put rice cakes one by one in a pan.


3. When it boils again, put onion slices and cabbage. Add fish cake which is sliced into large pieces, if you desire. Bring it to boil again.




4. When it boils again, put 1Tbsp of red pepper flakes, a pinch of paprika powder and green onions. Mix well.




How to Serve

Put everything in the large bowl, add sesame and chopped green onion on the top for garnish.

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