Korean New Year Rice Cake Soup

It s a traditional must eat new year s dish.

Korean new year rice cake soup. For the soup garaetteok is sliced into thin oval shapes. Soak sliced rice cakes in a bowl of cold water drain water when the rice cakes have softened. The rice cake used for this soup is garaetteok which is unsweetened and shaped like a long cylinder.

Koreans always eat it on seollal korean new year s day the first day of the lunar calendar and one of the most important holidays in korea traditionally according to korean age reckoning everyone s age went up one year on seollal and the process wasn t totally complete until you. In this video i show you my mother s rice cake soup recipe. Add the sliced rice cakes and cook until rice cakes are soft.

Rice cake soup known as ddukguk is a traditional dish eaten to celebrate the korean new year same as the chinese. It is made from stock with thinly sliced rice cake and topped with seasoned seaweed paper and sliced egg we eat it on new year s day as we believe it will bring us good luck and by eating a bowl of rice cake soup you will be a year older and my grandmother used to say if we ate. Rice cake soup ddukguk 떡국 rice cake soup tteok guk is a new year s must for koreans.

Add in 2 beaten eggs in ribbons into the hot soup and 2 green onions sliced. With many different spellings but one amazing homey flavor korean duk gook is a traditional soup eaten on korean new year s day soothing simple and easy to make this white soup symbolizes a fresh start to the year and its round rice coins represent the prosperity and wealth of the year to come. Lunar new year s day is just around the corner.

I have seen many different recipes the only really standard ingredient seems to be the rice cakes but i really liked the savoriness of this one. If you want to cook more korean new year s day food check them out from here. The rice cakes in this soup are not the crispy american kind but a firm asian kind used in soups and other dishes.

So today i m sharing my korean rice cake soup tteokguk or ddeokguk 떡국 recipe. Rice cake and dumpling soup in beef broth tteok mandu guk. The white oval shape symbolizes a bright and prosperous new year.