Tteokbokki, also spelt ddeokbokki (and many other variations), is a Korean dish of simmered rice cakes. There are many versions, including the rather luxurious, non-spicy “royal tteokbokki ...
This is a bit of an all-season dish, good cold in the summer and hot in the winter. It may be too prosaic to describe this as a frittata made with boiled rice — it is much better than that.
Serve your spicy fried rice cakes with some toasted sesame seeds, chopped spring onions and a few slices of thinly sliced fresh red chilli scattered over the top. If you are making your own ...
then pour the sauce over them while everything is hot. But the secret to a big, dramatic sizzle doesn’t lie in the rice cakes: you get this from pouring the sauce onto a heated cast-iron plate.