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Sausage Rice Cake Skewers

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Alternating sausage and rice cake skewers glazed with sweet chili sauce.

Easy20 min2 servings🌶️★ 67Contains soyContains gluten
Sausage Rice Cake Skewers

History & culture

Sausage-and-rice-cake skewers are often linked to the 2010s Korean street fad of putting familiar snack flavors on one stick. Tradition holds that alternating tteok and sausage made sharing and carrying easier at festivals and night markets. Vendors and social media amplified the trend from Seoul hotspots to nationwide night fairs. The snack is widely cited as a playful late-stage street food meme rather than a centuries-old recipe.

Servings
2

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Ingredients & steps

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Ingredients

  • Cylinder rice cakes (tteok)

    Substitutefresh tteok from Korean market

    200 g, rounds
  • Neutral cooking oil
    1 tbsp
  • Water
    4 cups, for softening
  • Korean-style sausage

    Substitutehot dogs or kielbasa

    4 links, cut into rounds

Seasonings

  • Gochujang (Korean chili paste)

    Substitutemiso + chili paste (approximate)

    2 tbsp
  • Korean chili flakes (gochugaru)Optional

    Substitutecoarse red pepper flakes (adjust heat)

    1 tsp
  • Soy sauce

    SubstituteTsuyu (diluted) 2 tsp (2 tsp per 1 tbsp) or Tamari 1 tbsp

    1 tbsp
  • Sugar
    2 tbsp

Steps

  1. 15 min

    If rice cakes are firm, blanch or soak in hot water until pliable, then drain and pat dry. Alternate sausage and rice cake rounds on skewers.

    • Korean-style sausage
    • Cylinder rice cakes (tteok)
    • Water
  2. 2Medium heat5 min

    Pan-fry skewers in oil on medium heat 4–5 minutes until sausage is cooked and tteok is soft.

    • Neutral cooking oil
    • Korean-style sausage
    • Cylinder rice cakes (tteok)
  3. 3Medium heat2 min

    Brush with gochujang, soy sauce, sugar and optional gochugaru glaze. Cook 1–2 minutes until glossy.

    • Gochujang (Korean chili paste)
    • Soy sauce
    • Sugar
    • Korean chili flakes (gochugaru)

Storage & reheating

Best fresh. Can reheat in a pan within a few hours.

Troubleshooting

  • ⚠️ Tteok still hard

    → Cover pan briefly after first fry to steam tteok.

  • ⚠️ Sausage splits

    → Cut sausage into thick rounds; cook on medium not high heat.