HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
First of all, I want to wish you all the best: happiness, health, success, and abundance!!!
When I woke up on 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 from 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 New Year’s Day.
So, I decided to make the lazy version… lol.
Instead of making the soup from scratch with all the other ingredients and spending hours, I used very simple ingredients and made it in under 10 minutes.
The rice cake is amped as a round circle, like a 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 to earn more money that year!
Also, when you eat this soup, you officially get one year older. (Koreans all get one year older on New Year’s Day.) So people who don’t want to get older try not to eat the soup, and little kids would eat like five bowls of this soup! lol, We all understand that’s not true, but it is always fun to play that way!
I hope you guys try this recipe sometime soon and enjoy it at home!
PrintLazy Tteokguk (Korean Rice Cake Soup)
- Total Time: 8 mins
- Yield: 3 to 4 1x
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
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Instructions
- In a medium size pot, bring chicken stock to a boil. Add rice cake and bring it back to boil, then reduce the heat to medium-high and keep cooking until the rice cake is softened and tender, for about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, chop green onion and garlic and crack eggs in a small mixing bowl. Gently mix egg yolk and white.
- Stir in green onion and garlic into the soup. Pour eggs in a circling motion, trying to make sure they are as spaced apart as possible. Count 5 seconds and gently stir in a zig-zag motion. Bring back to a boil and remove from heat.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with gim (Korean toasted and seasoned seaweed), a drizzle of sesame oil, sesame seeds, and chili treats, if using. Enjoy!
- Cook Time: 8 mins
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!