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    Home » Noodles and Rice

    Seafood Cheese Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cake)

    Published 09/18/2017. Updated 01/30/2021

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    This tteokbokki recipe is a variation made with seafood and cheese. All the contrasting flavors work so well together to create something incredibly flavorful and comforting.

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    What happens when spicy tteokbokki — Korea’s most popular street food — meets seafood and cheese? It’s elevated to the next level! All the contrasting flavors work so well together to create something incredibly flavorful and comforting.

    I recently enjoyed seafood cheese ttoekbokki at a Korean restaurant in K-town New York. It was delicious, so I’ve recreated it here for you!

    Cheese didn’t exist in Korea in the past. The only cheese I knew growing up was American yellow cheese singles. Driven by the young generation, cheese consumption has been rapidly rising in Korea over the last two decades as Western dishes such as pizza have become enormously popular.

    Cheeses are now commonly added to various traditional Korean dishes, such as tteokbokki, gimbap, gyeran mari, pajeon, bokkeum bap, dak galbi, etc. More creative ideas, incorporating cheese into Korean food, are on the rise, and cheese is becoming a “hip” ingredient in Korean cuisine!

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    The Cheese

    Use any cheese(s) you would use for pizza or pasta. Mozzarella is great, and I also like the pizza blend (provolone, asiago, and mozzarella) in this dish. You can melt the cheese over the stove top, in the microwave, or under the broiler.

    The seafood

    Any combination of seafood can be used. I used shrimp and squid in this recipe. Clams and mussels would be great additions as well. If you don’t like seafood, simply omit them. 

    Both of my classic tteokbokki and soupy tteokbokki recipes use anchovy broth, but I used dashima and shrimp shells to make a flavorful broth here. You can simply use water if you want. The additions of seafood and cheese give the dish lots of flavor anyway.

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    For more Korean cooking inspirations, follow along on YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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    Seafood Cheese Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cake)

    4.51 from 65 votes
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Servings: 3
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    Ingredients

    • 1 pound tteokbokki tteok 떡볶이 떡
    • 1 small piece dashima (about 3 inch square), dried kelp
    • 6 small shrimp save shells if peeling
    • 1/2 small squid
    • 3 ounces green cabbage (yangbaechu, 양배추)
    • 1 scallion
    • 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese (or pizza blend) Use more if desired

    Sauce

    • 1 tablespoon gochujang, 고추장 (Korean red chili pepper paste)
    • 1 tablespoons gochugaru, 고추가루 (Korean red chili pepper flakes) adjust to taste - see note
    • 1.5 tablespoons soy sauce
    • 1 tablespoon sugar
    • 1 tablespoon corn syrup or oligo syrup or use more sugar (about ⅔ tablespoon)
    • 2 teaspoons minced garlic

    Instructions

    • Soak the rice cakes for about 20 minutes if hardened or refrigerated.
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    • Clean the shrimp (saving the shells if peeling) and squid, and cut the squid into small pieces. Cut the cabbage and scallions into about 2-inch long pieces.
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    • Add 2 cups of water, dashima, and shrimp shells, if available, to a pan. Bring it to a boil, and continue to boil for 5 minutes. Remove the dashima and shrimp shells. Preheat the oven broiler if you want to use it to melt the cheese.
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    • Stir in the sauce ingredients. Bring it to a boil over medium high heat, stirring to dissolve the sauce mix. Add the rice cakes. Boil until the rice cakes become very soft and the sauce is thickened, about 8 - 10 minutes. Stir frequently so the rice cakes don't stick to the bottom of the pan.
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    • Add the cabbage. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for an additional 2 - 4 minutes. Taste the sauce, and adjust the seasoning if needed. DSC 1880 e1505790269402 - Seafood Cheese Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cake)
    • Mix in the seafood and scallion, and continue to cook, stirring, until the seafood is almost cooked.
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    • Add the cheese on top. You can melt the cheese over the stove top, covered, or in the microwave, or under the oven broiler.
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    Notes

    Adjust the amount of chili pepper flakes (gochugaru) if you want to increase or decrease the spicy level without altering the saltiness and sweetness.
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