Rice Cake Soup DdeokGuk 떡국
When I think of comfort foods, I immediately latch onto memories of cuddling up to something warm and soothing. This savory Korean rice cake soup is perfect for when it’s cold or you have a cold and it’s simple enough to create in no time at all.
Rice Cake Soup DdeokGuk 떡국
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 7 c cold filtered water
- 4-5 anchovies
- 2-3″ piece of kelp
- ½ onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tb fish sauce
- 1 ts sesame oil
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- 3 c rice cakes
- 4 beaten eggs (half for the garnish/half for the broth)
- 1 sheet crumbled, roasted seaweed paper and sesame oil
- 2 chopped green onions
- S&P
Instructions
- To create the stock, simmer the water, anchovies, kelp, onion, and 2 cloves of garlic for up to 20 minutes.
- Strain and add the fish sauce, sesame oil, minced garlic, and rice cakes. Salt and pepper.
- When the rice cakes float to the top, drop in half the egg, when it just begins to set, move it around to make a flurry.
- In a small frying pan, fry the rest of the eggs and salt. Move it around to make a thin round sheet. Flip it over when golden and slice into strips.
- Toast the seaweed paper on the stove, brush with sesame oil and lightly salt. Crunch it up to make little seaweed pieces.
- Scatter on the green onions and serve with strips of egg and crushed seaweed.
FYI, this is also traditionally eaten to celebrate the New Year!
Love,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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Looks so yummy. Soups for a cool night, perfect.
Loving the flavours in this soup! Never had it before but I’m sure it’ll be delicious, especially since Melbourne’s weather is misbehaving (supposed to be spring but it feels like the middle of winter!).
Great capture my friend….
we used to called this aa a kwetiaw soup in Indonesia….
This looks so lovely and delicious Angie! Another must try! Sea weed is a WONDERFUL nutricious delicious not so secret secret any more.Thanks fpr sharig this wonderful recipe!
xoxoxo.
Les.
it looks so good Squishy!
soup good this time of year. i think white dandruff from sky soon approachith. haha
I love those rice cakes! This soup would be total comfort food to me.
I swear, it was like 70 this weekend and now it’s back to sweater and tea weather again boooo. The only silver lining is that there’s soup!
I feel like we haven’t gotten snow in forever, if it’s going to be cold, I wouldn’t mind seeing a bit of snow. You should take pics, would love to see =)
Thanks, Tandy!
You too, my friend!
Very nice. I would love to try the Indonesian version too.
I did a little jig when I saw it at Tj’s, lol!
I wish we were going into Spring :/
Thanks, Ash!
Hi Angela, your comfort soup look healthy and appetizing. Interesting recipe!
Have a fabulous week ahead,regards.
This sounds like a great comfort food!! And I agree, comfort foods should be warm and soothing!!
duk gook is truly one of my fave “last meal on earth” meals. Love it! xO!
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Are you using the dried or frozen rice cake?
I welcome every kind of soup in the winter time – this recipe looks great!
Yum – this is a new soup for me, but it looks really delicious!
I think I’m going to need all the soup recipes I can gather this year, Angela. Mother Nature sure does have a chill about her this year:)
Thanks for sharing this traditional New Year recipe too…
Last night was a cold one for sure. Gathering solace with sweet nibbles =)
You could also sub the anchovies with beef brisket if you’d like too.
Thanks, Pamela!!
Hi, Norma. Is it working for you now? I’ve been revamping things on the site and apologize for the inconvenience. I’m using dried here =)
For sure!
It’s been great to help nudge me out of bed on those cold mornings!