Dduk Bokki with Dduk in a new size!
Today at work, I had to fill out a little “Welcome to the Chicago Office” form. It had some fun questions, like “What would you be doing if you weren’t in PR?” and “If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would you pick?” For “What is your guilty pleasure?” I wrote: “Dining at restaurants that I really can’t afford.”
But my dinner craving came from my answer to “What is your favorite dish to prepare?” to which I answered, “Bulgogi or Dduk Bokki (Korean spicy rice cake dish).”
This weekend at Joong Boo Market, I bought a new shape of Dduk (rice cakes, for you new to my blog). They are thicker and fatter— definitely the shape that most resembles gnocchi that I have tried so far. So I knew that when I got home, I had the ingredients in my fridge to make dduk bokki without a trip to the store (unusual, as I tend to buy fresh ingredients one day at a time).
A quick reminder:
Dduk bokki = gochujang (spicy red pepper paste) + rice cakes + whatever veggies you have in your fridge.
Tonight I used one carrot, a handful of spinach, garlic, sprouts, one sesame leaf and scallions.
Lucky me, I had Korean sesame leaves in my fridge as well! It was delicious. Just had to blog about it. :o)
