Tteokbokki with Gochujang and Brown Butter

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:40:00 +0000

Tteokbokki is Korea’s most recognisable street food, chewy rice cakes braised in a thick, red, fiercely spiced sauce, and most versions lean entirely on gochujang and sugar to get there. This one starts differently: the gochujang goes straight into brown butter, and that single change rounds off the sauce’s raw, slightly sharp edge without softening the heat itself. The chilli still hits; it just arrives on top of something nutty and rounded rather than something flat and purely sweet-hot. The tteok stay exactly as they should — soft outside, a genuine chew at the centre, sauce clinging to every ridge.

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Tteokbokki with Gochujang and Brown Butter