Korean Lazy Rice Cake Soup (Tteokguk)

I'm Seonkyoung Longest. Welcome to Asian at home. I mean home. I'm in my home. I cannot be happier than right now. You have no idea. I'm so so happy finally back to my beautiful kitchen and finally making Asian at home. Actually at my home. You know what I mean? Actually I'm filming this video on the very first day of 2017. I know. I know. I should like upload this video on this day but never late and better. No. Better late than never. That's right. That's right. I got it. So anyways today I'm going to show you how to make Korean New Year's food we call tteokguk. This morning when I woke up I didn't feel like making whole entire this rice cake soup all from scratch just for myself. Jacob is not home yet so I was like I kind of feel lazy about making it but I feel like I have to eat it because that's what I'm eating every year on the first day of January so I'm like I've got to make it but I feel so lazy what I'm gonna do. So this is what I do and I just decided to share because it was freaking awesome. So lazy rice cake soup. My mom will kill me but I don't care. I'm an adult. So let's start it. The first thing what you need to do let's use four cups of store-bought chicken broth. Yes. I'm not making like anchovy broth or beef bone broth for this soup right now from scratch because those takes way too long and I need to eat right now. Let's bring it to boil. Meanwhile the chicken stock is coming to the boil. Let's talk about the rice cake, the star of this dish. So I got this from a Korean market, my local Korean grocery store and you can find easily either Korean grocery store or Asian grocery store around where you live. This is normally in the refrigerator section. Back then in Korea we didn't have a paper money but we had only this coin money. Koreans thought this rice cake looks like money so if they eat a lot of them the very first day of the new year they will earn a lot of money. So that's the behind the story of eating this rice cake soup at very first day of the new year. So anyways I think my chicken broth is boiling by now. I'm going to add this rice cake right into it. I'm using one pound of rice cake. Bring soup back to boil and let it keep cooking three to five minutes until the rice cake is really tender and soft and smooth. Oh so good. So meanwhile let's chop up some garlic. Five to six cloves depending on how much garlic you want in the soup and two green onions. All right I chopped the garlic and the green onion. They're good to go. And lastly we are going to crack two eggs in a little mixing bowl. Gently break the egg all together like this. All right looking good and I think my rice cake is fully cooked and very softened. Let's add all these three. Start in chopped garlic and green onion first and slowly pour the beaten egg as a circle motion. Five seconds then stir gently. Bring back to boil and you're done. Oh wait what's this? Oh my gosh I think it took me like like literally less than 10 minutes like seven eight minutes to make whole entire this dish. It's amazing because if you're trying to make this traditional way it takes hours and hours to do it so thank me later. Okay adding dumplings is really good in here we call it tteok manduguk. As it is right now it's super delicious super proper way to serve this way but let's make a little fancy so nobody thinking this is a lazy rice cake soup you know. We are going to drizzle a little bit of sesame oil and some sesame seeds. Just crush between your fingertips and just add that way. I like some gim, the Korean seasoned and roasted seaweed right on top. Because the soup I'm going to break down with my fingers just like this. And last finale this is totally optional you don't have to do it I'm just doing it because I'm making recipe video you know I have to take a beauty shots and all. I'm adding a little bit of this red chili threads. Who would think this is lazy rice cake soup that I just whoop it up like in seven eight minutes. Congratulations I'm gonna eat a lot so I can I can earn a lot of money this year. When did this little gim got on there? I have no idea. If you liked my lazy rice cake soup please give me a thumbs up. I will give myself thumbs up. Oh my goodness it's so good. And subscribe my channel for more inspirations and idea of Asian home cooking. Thank you so much for watching me today and remember you can always cook Asian food at your house making it easy and fun. I'm Seonkyoung Longest and this is Asian at home. Lazy version. And I will see you next time. Bye! you