Japanese Rice Cakes (Homemade Rice Cakes from Scratch)

Name: Japanese Rice Cakes (Homemade Rice Cakes from Scratch)
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Ingredients: 2 cups short grain white rice; 3 cups cold water ((For soaking rice)); 1 cup cold water ((To be added into the soaked rice)); 2 tbsp unsalted butter ((Or vegetable oil))

Instructions

Prep:50minCook:40min

This recipe teaches us how to easily make Korean and Japanese rice cakes with 3 simple ingredients: white rice, water, and butter. Homemade rice cakes are so chewy and delicious. They are perfect for making tteokbokki (Korean spicy rice cakes), tteokguk (Korean rice cake soup), yaki mochi (grilled Japanese rice cake), and zenzai (red bean soup with mochi).

Updated at: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:26:47 GMT