Type | Tteok |
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Place of origin | Korea |
Associated cuisine | Korean cuisine |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 가래떡 |
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Revised Romanization | garae-tteok |
McCune–Reischauer | karae-ttŏk |
IPA | [ka.ɾɛ.t͈ʌk̚] |
Garae-tteok (가래떡) is a long, cylindrical tteok (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour. [1] [2] Grilled garae-tteok is sometimes sold as street food. [3] Thinly (and usually diagonally) sliced garae-tteok is used for making tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. [4] The world record of the longest garaetteok was achieved in Dangjin, South Korea in 2018, with 5,080 metres (16,670 ft). [5]
It is traditionally made by steaming non-glutinous rice flour in siru (steamer), pounding it and rolling it between the palms and the table or rolling it between the palms. [1] [6] The method forms a thick, cylindrical rice cake, around 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) in diameter. [4] [6] Hand-rolled garae-tteok is not uniform in size and has variations of thickness along its length.
Modern garae-tteok is usually made by extruding the steamed rice flour with garae-tteok machines. [6]