List of tteok varieties
This is a list of varieties of tteok, traditional rice cakes in Korean cuisine.
Steamed ''tteok''
- Sirutteok, steamed tteok
- Duteop tteok - a variety of royal court tteok, is covered 3 layers - duteop powder, sweet rice, and variety nuts and fruits
- Baekseolgi – a variety of siru tteok. It literally means "white snow tteok", and is made of white rice and whole raisins
- Kongtteok – tteok made with various kinds of beans
- Jeungpyeon – tteok made with makgeolli
- Mujigae tteok – literally "rainbow tteok"; this variety of tteok has colorful stripes. The tteok is used especially for janchi, Korean banquet, party, or feast like dol, Hwangap, or gyeonhon janchi.
Pounded ''tteok''
- Injeolmi
- *Pat injeolmi - tteok made with azuki beans
- *Kkaeinjeolmi - tteok made with black sesame
- *Ssuk injeolmi - tteok made with Artemisia indica
- *Surichwi injeolmi - tteok made with Synurus deltoides (AIT.) NAKAI
- Garaetteok – tteok formed into a long white cylinder. The thinly sliced garae tteok is used for making tteokguk, while the thicker cylinder shaped tteok is used in tteokbokki.
Shaped ''tteok''
- Kkul tteok – literally means "honey" but this tteok is stuffed with Korean syrup. Ggul tteok is similar to songpyeon in shape, but smaller in size
- Songpyeon – eaten during the Chuseok holiday
- Gochitteok - made with strawberry powder, Artemisia princeps var. orientalis and gardenia seeds
- Ssamtteok – tteok used for ssam
- Dalgal tteok – named after the Korean word for egg
- Gyeongdan – inside these rice balls are usually azuki bean or sesame paste. Then they are usually dipped and covered in black sesame or other powders.
- Bupyeon – consists of a dough made from glutinous rice flour with a sweet filling that is covered with gomul, a kind of powdered bean.
Pan-fried ''tteok''
- Hwajeon – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose
- Bukkumi, pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape
- Juak, made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried. Juak are colored with natural coloring and covered with sugar or coated in honey.
Non-rice ''tteok''
- Tteok-galbi is made of formed minced rib meat, or galbi. The name literally translates to "cake ribs" and is a metaphorical reference to the process of kneading and shaping rice-based tteok.