Recipe 2: Cream cheese Toppoki

Toppoki is Korean traditional food made by a rice cake. It is very delicious but spicy that westerns are hard to eat it, so today I introduce special Toppoki which is not spicy. It is called cream cheese Toppoki in Korea though people do not put real cream cheese in this food. It is similar to cream sauce pasta. I just use the rice cake instead of a noodle. Then, let’s make it.

Get the ingredients!

Rice cake: If the rice cake is hard because it was in freezer, soak it into the water for an hour or more to make it soft.

Milk: 2% reduced fat one is ok, but not non-fat one

Vegetables: 1/2 onion and 5-6 pieces of garlic. You can add paprika and bell pepper.

Some bacon

Basil: It is the best, but thyme, rosemary, or the other herbs are ok.

Salt, pepper and cooking oil

Cheese is preferred.

First, cut the vegetables. Cut the onions into thin strips and slice the garlic. If you have other vegetables, cut it into small pieces, too.

Second, remove the fat from bacon and slice it into strips.

Are you ready to cook?

    This recipe is very simple!

1.    Put the cooking oil in the pot and fry the garlic first. When you can feel the smell of garlic, put the other vegetables in it and grill it until the onion turns clear.

2.    Put the bacon and grill it again.

3.    Put the milk much that all vegetables and bacon can sink in it and boil it. Be careful! Don’t put the lid on the pot since milk will inflate. If it is expanding, just stir it to decrease.

4.    Put the rice cake.

5.    Stir it slowly until it turns like soup, the sticky one.

6.    Add the thyme and cheese.

Eat it!

It is very simple recipe. You just need to prepare the ingredients and mix it all. Just do it!