List of tteok varieties explained
This is a list of varieties of tteok, traditional rice cakes in Korean cuisine.
Steamed tteok
- Sirutteok (시루떡), steamed tteok
- Duteop tteok (두텁떡) - a variety of royal court tteok (궁중떡), is covered 3 layers - duteop powder [outside, made of black-line white bean (흰팥)], sweet rice [middle], and variety nuts and fruits [inside, including chestnut, date (jujube), pinenut, [[yuja]], duteop-so]
- Baekseolgi (백설기) – a variety of siru tteok. It literally means "white snow tteok", and is made of white rice and whole raisins
- Kongtteok (콩떡) – tteok made with various kinds of beans
- Jeungpyeon (증편) – tteok made with makgeolli (unfiltered rice wine)
- Mujigae tteok (무지개떡) – literally "rainbow tteok"; this variety of tteok has colorful stripes. The tteok is used especially for janchi (잔치), Korean banquet, party, or feast like dol (celebrating a baby's first birthday), Hwangap (celebrating 60 years old people's birthday), or gyeonhon janchi (wedding party).
Pounded tteok
- Injeolmi (인절미)
- Pat injeolmi (팥인절미) - tteok made with azuki beans (팥)
- Kkaeinjeolmi (깨인절미) - tteok made with black sesame (검은깨)
- Ssuk injeolmi (쑥인절미) - tteok made with Artemisia indica
- Surichwi injeolmi (수리취인절미) - tteok made with Synurus deltoides (AIT.) NAKAI
- Garaetteok (가래떡; also called hwin tteok, 흰떡, literally "white tteok") – tteok formed into a long white cylinder. The thinly sliced garae tteok is used for making tteokguk, while the thicker cylinder shaped tteok is used in tteokbokki
Shaped tteok
- Kkul tteok (꿀떡) – literally means "honey" but this tteok is stuffed with Korean syrup. Ggul tteok is similar to songpyeon in shape, but smaller in size
- Songpyeon (송편) – eaten during the Chuseok holiday
- Gochitteok (고치떡) - made with strawberry powder, Artemisia princeps var. orientalis (쑥) and gardenia seeds (치자)
- Ssamtteok (쌈떡) – tteok used for ssam (쌈, food wrapped in a leaf)
- Dalgal tteok (닭알떡) [1] – named after the Korean word for egg (달걀 or 계란)
- Gyeongdan (경단) – inside these rice balls are usually azuki bean or sesame paste. Then they are usually dipped and covered in black sesame or other powders.
- Bupyeon (부편), consists of a dough made from glutinous rice flour with a sweet filling that is covered with gomul, a kind of powdered bean.[2]
Pan-fried tteok
- Hwajeon (화전) – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose
- Bukkumi (부꾸미), pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape[3]
- Juak (주악), made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried. Juak are colored with natural coloring and covered with sugar or coated in honey[4]
Non-rice tteok
- Tteok-galbi (떡갈비) is made of formed minced rib meat, or galbi (갈비). The name literally translates to "cake ribs" and is a metaphorical reference to the process of kneading and shaping rice-based tteok.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Archived copy . 2009-11-29 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20100215030403/http://lifeinkorea.com/Images/Festivals/Dano/Dano0629.jpg . 2010-02-15.
- Web site: ::: 약한자의 힘 경남도민일보 ::: . 10 April 2008 . Idomin.com . 2010-07-10 . 2011-07-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713004238/http://www.idomin.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=250335 . live .
- Web site: Bukkumi (부꾸미) . . 2008-05-18 . ko . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090206184602/http://www.encyber.com/search_w/ctdetail.php?masterno=77864&contentno=77864 . 2009-02-06.
- Web site: 주악 (juak) . Click Korea Online Dictionary . 2008-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719021721/http://www.clickkorea.org/Food/foodguide_view.asp?menubar=4&page=&idx=701&food_idx=27&backpage=foodView.asp . 2011-07-19.