Korean food recipes Grilled cheese & rice cake skewers

Korean Style food recipes : Cheese-tteok-kkochi 치즈떡꼬치

 

A few tips for this recipe:

• If you can’t find garaetteok (cylinder shaped rice cake), you can make your own at home!
• Soft, fresh rice cakes will be best, but if you can’t get those you can soften any rice cakes by blanching them for a minute or two (directions below).
• The first and last items in the skewer need to be rice cakes, to keep the whole skewer together.
• Cook over low or medium-low heat so that the cheese doesn’t go dark brown. We want it light golden brown.

Enjoy the recipe and have fun making grilled cheese rice cake skewers at home!

Ingredients

Makes 2 skewers

• 6 pieces of 3 inch long string cheese
• 8 pieces of 3 inch long cylinder shaped rice cakes
• 2 wooden skewers
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• Sweetened condensed milk, optional

 

Directions

How to soften rice cakes:
Separate the rice cakes and blanch them in boiling water for 1 or 2 minutes until they’re soft. Put them in a bowl of cold water, drain and pat dry with a paper towel.

 

 

Make the skewers:

 

1. Skewer rice cake and cheese alternatively, with 4 rice cakes and 3 cheeses. Make 2 skewers.

2. Heat a non-stick heavy skillet. Turn down the heat to medium low.

 

3. Add the butter and the skewers and let cook for 1 or 2 minutes until the bottom turns light brown.

 

4. Turn them over with a spatula and cook another 1 to 2 minutes until the cheese and the rice cake turn light brown.

 

5. Transfer the cooked skewers to a plate or put them into paper cups. Drizzle condensed milk over top and serve right away.

 

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It's from Maangchi's.