Tuk Bokki♡

I would like to tell you about a recipe of "Tuk Bokki". Tuk Bokki tastes sweet and a little hot. It is especially popular among students and the youngs. In making this food, sauces are very important. To make it delicious, you need to mix many ingredients properly. Now, I tell you about the ingredients. You need thin white rice cake and boiled fish cake. To spice up, you need Gochu-jang, Tongkkae or sesame oil, cayenne, garlic, salt, sugar and soy. You may substitute starch syrup with sugar and garlic. Of course, You can add vegetables; onions, carrots, cabbages, and mushrooms. Prepared eggs or noodles should be added as needed for better taste. If you want to make special Tuk Bokki, you can put more of other ingredients; like curry, noodles, beef, and octopus. Let's cook.First, take the best quality of white rice cake and chop them into smaller pieced for nice-bites. Ideal is to cut the rolls of rice cake about the length of a finger. Length should not be a big problem if you don't mind eating with hot pepper paste all over your mouth. Cut vegetables into proper sizes and steam in boiling water followed by rinsing in cold water.

Take the white rice cake that we cut into smaller pieces above, then put water in a bowl with them and boil it. If you put meat based soup instead of water, it will rich the flavor. As a matter of fact, the secret of the popular Tuk Bokki is meat soup. Next, make seasoning. Needless to repeat, sauce are really important. Put sugar or starch syrup. Put Gochu-jang, cayenne, and other ingredients. You can use ketchup, too. It would taste much better with what we usually call chunjang.When it is nicely boiled, put the chopped rice cakes in carefully. And it's time to put spices. And you can put boiled fish cake, eggs, noodle, or hams according to your appetites. After that, mix all ingredients together and stir well. Taste it to see how it is seasoned with salt. Season it with some more salt, if it is insipid. Making it such well seasoned is from experience and devotion is the heart of cooking. Cook it with true heart. Next, add Tongkkae or sesame oil and place it in a dish.Finally, eat deliciously.We used to eat Tuk Bokki a lot. Making Tuk Bokki is not difficult. Give it a try and you will make it. If you have just a little sense of cooking, you can make your own special Tuk Bokki.