Menu du jour days tteok : 14 Recipes


  • Recipe The 10th day of tteok: Hawaiian tteokbokki
    The 10th day of tteok: Hawaiian tteokbokki
    As we head back west across the Pacific on our 12-day tteokbokki (???) sauce recipe  countdown to the Korean New Year , the next stop is Hawaii. America's 50th state is also the first place many Asian immigrants settled in the 19th[...]
  • Recipe The first day of tteok: Szechuan tteokbokki
    The first day of tteok: Szechuan tteokbokki
    As we count down 12 days of tteokbokki recipes until the Korean New Year, let's start with Korea's neighbor, China, for some inspiration. Szechuan is a province in southwestern China, known for fiery sauces. Here's a Szechuan sauce recipe I[...]
  • Recipe The fifth day of tteok: Arrabbiata tteokbokki
    The fifth day of tteok: Arrabbiata tteokbokki
    For the fifth day of my 12-day tteokbokki recipe countdown to the Korean New year , I combined the tasty rice noodles with an Italian pasta sauce called Arrabiata. The word arrabiata literally means "angry sauce" and comes from the southern[...]
  • Recipe The 11th day of tteok: Ottogi curry tteokbokki
    The 11th day of tteok: Ottogi curry tteokbokki
    As our 12-day tteokbokki (???) sauce countdown to the Korean New Year nears an end, we consider a Korean-Indian fusion curry sauce developed by Korean food company Ottogi in the late 1960s. Koreans have put their own spin on curry and[...]
  • Recipe The fourth day of tteok: Korma curry tteokbokki
    The fourth day of tteok: Korma curry tteokbokki
    The fourth day of my 12-day tteokbokki recipe countdown to the Korean New Year continues our culinary journey in India. Today's inspiration is Korma Curry, which is a staple of North Indian Mughlai cuisine. The recipe for Korma curry goes[...]
  • Recipe The third day of tteok: Madras curry tteokbokki
    The third day of tteok: Madras curry tteokbokki
    My next source of tteokbokki (???) fusion inspiration for the 12-day countdown to the Korean New Year comes from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu, which is now called Chennai, is located in the southwest corner[...]
  • Recipe The sixth day of tteok: Beef Bolognese tteokbokki
    The sixth day of tteok: Beef Bolognese tteokbokki
    (Tamar1973 photo) Today's tteokbokki (???) recipe as part of my 12-day countdown to the Korean New Year keeps us on the Italian peninsula by using Bologna's famous sauce as the wardrobe for the tteok noodles. When I lived in South Korea,[...]
  • Recipe The ninth day of tteok: Buffalo chicken tteokbokki
    The ninth day of tteok: Buffalo chicken tteokbokki
    (Tamar1973 photos) Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., is the undisputed home of Buffalo chicken wings and the next stop on our 12-day tteok recipe countdown to the Korean New Year . The bar's sweet, fiery sauce is often imitated, but never[...]
  • Recipe The second day of tteok: Thai green curry tteokbokki
    The second day of tteok: Thai green curry tteokbokki
    On the second day of my tteokbokki (???) marathon , here's a recipe for Thai Green Curry Tteokbokki . The Thai green curry sauce recipe here is slightly modified from one posted online by the BBC. Remember with all tteokbokki[...]
  • Recipe The seventh day of tteok: Chicken in mole poblano tteokbokki
    The seventh day of tteok: Chicken in mole poblano tteokbokki
    For today's installment of the 12-day countdown to the Korean New Year , I'm bringing tteokbokki (???) to the new world, first stop in Mexico. Due to the labor-intensive nature of traditional Mexican mole sauces, I am not going to make this[...]