Recipes

Restaurant-grade recipes — ingredients, steps, and tips, scaled for home kitchens. Part of the Kimchee Network.

SOUP · Easy · 50 min

Tteokguk — Seollal Rice Cake Soup

By Tteok Curator

New Year's soup — oval garae coins in clear beef or anchovy broth with jidan.

Prep 20 min + soak · Cook 30 min · Serves 4

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DDUK · Medium · 45 min

Injeolmi — Pounded Rice Cake with Roasted Bean Powder

By Tteok Curator

Hot pounded chapssal cut and tossed in kong-garu — eat same day for best pillowy bite.

Prep 20 min · Cook 25 min · Serves 20 pieces

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DDUK · Medium · 55 min

Songpyeon — Chuseok Half-Moon with Sesame & Bean

By Tteok Curator

Pine-scented half-moons — the Chuseok kitchen craft kids learn beside elders.

Prep 40 min · Cook 15 min · Serves 20 pieces

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DDUK · Easy · 45 min

Baekseolgi — White Steamed Rice Cake (Siru)

By Tteok Curator

Pure white siru — the Seollal celebrant that forgives novice steamers.

Prep 20 min · Cook 25 min · Serves 1 siru (8 slices)

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DDUK · Easy · 50 min

Ssuk Tteok — Mugwort Rice Cake

By Tteok Curator

Spring ssuk folded into dough — pine-eucalyptus aroma that needs honey frame.

Prep 25 min · Cook 25 min · Serves 12 pieces

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DDUK · Easy · 30 min

Gyeongdan — Sweet Sesame Balls

By Tteok Curator

Bite-size glutinous balls rolled in bean, black sesame, or mugwort — sweet with honey inside.

Prep 20 min · Cook 10 min · Serves 20 balls

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DDUK · Medium · 5.5 hr

Yaksik (Yakbap) — Sweet Glutinous Rice with Jujube & Chestnut

By Tteok Curator

Jujube-studded sweet rice — brown sugar, soy, and sesame oil gloss harvest.

Prep 20 min + 4 hr soak · Cook 45 min · Serves 8

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DDUK · Medium · 25 min

Hwajeon — Pan-Fried Flower Rice Cake

By Tteok Curator

Thin chapssal rounds topped with azalea or rose petal, pan-fried, honey drizzled — eat within hours.

Prep 15 min · Cook 10 min · Serves 12

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DDUK · Medium · 55 min

Mujigae Tteok — Rainbow Layered Siru

By Tteok Curator

4-5 colors layered soft — the cutting cake where cross-section is presentation.

Prep 25 min · Cook 30 min · Serves 1 siru

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DDUK · Medium · 2.75 hr

Jeungpyeon — Makgeolli Steamed Rice Cake

By Tteok Curator

Tangy, spongy steamed cake leavened with makgeolli and yeast — airy and tea-friendly.

Prep 20 min + 2 hr proof · Cook 25 min · Serves 8

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