Main ingredients 🥩
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Lim Sung-geun's Broth Tteokbokki
A restaurant-quality broth tteokbokki recipe with a clean, refreshing spiciness—no gochujang used, so it’s never greasy or heavy.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ Those who want to recreate the clean, deep broth flavor of famous snack shops at home
- ⭐ Home cooks who want to achieve perfectly flavorful tteokbokki every time using precise weighing
Ingredients needed 🛒3 servings
- rice cakes (wheat or rice) 600g
- square fish cake 3 pieces
- cabbage as needed
- onion 1/2
- green onion 1 stalk
- green chili pepper as needed
- boiled egg to taste
- soy sauce 250g
- sugar 200g
- corn syrup 500g
- beef bouillon 50g
- green chili powder 20g
- regular chili powder 120g
- minced garlic 15g
- monosodium glutamate 10g
- white magic powder (seasoning) 10g
- black pepper 2g
- water 500ml
- coin broth 5 cubes
Recipe 🍳
- Mix together the required amounts of soy sauce, sugar, corn syrup, beef bouillon, green chili powder, regular chili powder, minced garlic, monosodium glutamate, white magic powder, and black pepper to make the secret seasoning sauce.
- Pour 500ml of water into a pot and add 5 cubes of coin broth (instant stock) to boil the broth.
- Chop cabbage and onion into large pieces, halve the green onion and cut into 5cm lengths. Cut the square fish cake into bite-sized chunks.
- Add the prepared 600g of tteokbokki rice cakes and fish cake into the boiling broth.
- Adjust the ratio of broth to seasoning sauce to 2:1—add exactly 250g of seasoning sauce to 500g of broth—and bring everything to a boil together.
- Cook gently for about 10 minutes until the rice cakes become soft and chewy. Then add the prepared cabbage, onion, green onion, green chili pepper, and boiled egg, and simmer briefly until the vegetables are just cooked through. Finish cooking.
- Mix the dry and liquid seasoning ingredients in the correct proportions to make the sauce.
- Boil a quick base broth by adding coin broth to water.
- Cut the rice cakes, fish cake, and vegetables into large, bite-sized pieces.
- Add the rice cakes and fish cake to the broth, then add half the amount of broth in seasoning sauce and bring to a boil.
- Once the rice cakes are soft, add the vegetables and egg, and gently cook for a final minute to finish.
Cooking tips 💡
- Avoid using gochujang—it tends to make the broth heavy and greasy. Instead, focus on achieving a clean, sharp heat using a base of soy sauce and chili powder.
- Make the seasoning sauce in advance and let it age in the refrigerator—this helps mellow the raw chili aroma and deepens the flavor.
- Use leftover tteokbokki broth to stir-fry rice with sesame seeds and sesame oil for a delicious side dish.
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