Hi guys!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
First of all, I want to wish you all the best, happiness, healthy, success and abundance!!!
When I woke up 1st January 2017, I had to make Tteokguk (Rice Cake Soup) because it’s the traditional Korean new year’s food!
But….
When I woke up in the morning, I didn’t feel like cooking this time consuming dish form scratch only for myself. (My hubby is still in his deployment.) But I had to eat this dish, because it’s the meal I eat every year on the new year’s day.
So I decided to make the lazy version… lol
Instead of making the soup from scratch with all other ingredients and spending hours, I made with very simple ingredients under 10 minutes.
The rice cake is amped as round circle, like coin.
Back then in Korea, we didn’t have paper money, only coin money. So Koreans eat this soup on new year’s day while wishing earn more money that year!
Also when you eat this soup, you officially get 1 year older. (Koreans all get 1 your older on new year’s day.) So people who doesn’t want to get older, trying not to eat the soup and little kids would eat like 5 bowls of this soup! lol We all understand thats not the true, but it is always fun to play that way!
Hope you guys try this recipe sometime soon and enjoy at home!
PrintLazy Tteokguk (Korean Rice Cake Soup)
- Total Time: 8 mins
- Yield: 3 to 4 1x
Description
Ingredients
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 1 lb Korean sliced rice cake
- 2 green onions
- 5 to 6 garlic cloves
- 2 eggs
- Gim, Korean toasted and seasoned seaweed
- Sesame oil & seeds
- Chili thread, optional
Instructions
- In a medium size pot, bring chicken stock to boil. Add rice cake and bring back to boil, then reduce heat to medium high and keep cooking until rice cake is soften and tenter, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, chop green onion, garlic and crack eggs in a small mixing bowl. Gently mix egg yolk and white.
- Stir in green onion and garlic into soup. Pour eggs with a circling motion. Trying to make sure eggs have as much spaces from each others as possible. Count 5 seconds and gently stir as zig zag motion. Bring back to boil and remove from heat.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with gim (Korean toasted and seasoned seaweed), drizzle of sesame oil, sesame seeds and chili treats if you are using. Enjoy!
- Cook Time: 8 mins
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12 comments
Hi Seonkyoung,
Happy New Year!
i love your show and your food. I would like to know where did you buy your red silicone slotted spatula spoon you always use?
I will continue to watch all your shows, your so knowledgeable and very entertaining.
Thank You,
Lance
Happy New Year Lance~! I bought the red silicone spatula about 5-6 years go, don’t remember where I got it..? Sorry! I found similar ones on Amazon though, if you are interested, please check this link out! http://amzn.to/1PmFiDS
Hi SeonKyoung!
Thank you for all the great recipes and videos. It’s has been so helpful since I’m not only Korean, but a newbie cook! Two questions… is there an alternative I can use to red wine? And what size is you pot?
Thanks!
Sook
Hi Sook! The pot is 64 oz. And the alternative for red wine is depending on what recipe you’re trying to make and if you want alternative because it’s alcohol or you can’t have red wine. π
SeonKyoung,
I’m itching for some rice cake soup tonight, but I don’t have any Gim. π Any thoughts?
Marie
SeonKyoung,
I’m itching for some rice cake soup tonight, but I don’t have any Gim. π Any thoughts?
Marie
(sorry if this posted 15 times…the comment section was not my friend)
You can make it without any gim! It’s still very delicious!!
How can I use your ultimate stock for this recipe?
just replace chicken stock to ultimate Korean stock. π
Simple and easy to follow. Great recipe!!
Thanks!!
Happy New Year 2021 to you and your families! I wasn’t feeling great last night and wanted something light. The stars lined up with some home canned chicken broth and some frozen tteok in stick form, which I cut down to slices (they partially crumbled, but they were still good) and a couple of fresh green onion stalks in my lettuce growing box, making for a satisfying dinner soup, a happy tummy and sharing a New Year’s tradition. I added a bit of soup soy sauce for the flavor a a touch of salt, which also worked well as the broth was unsalted. Thank you for sharing this and all your recipes!
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