Tteok
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떡
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| Revised Romanization: | Tteok |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Ttŏk |
Tteok (IPA: [t͈ʌk]) is a Korean sweet cake made with glutinous rice flour, also known as sweet rice or chapssal, by steaming. Normal rice flour can be used for some kind of tteok. There are hundreds of different kinds of tteok eaten year round, especially in Korean culture it is customary to eat tteok guk (tteok soup) on New Year's Day and sweet tteok on weddings and birthdays. It is often considered a celebratory food and can be rather elaborate with nuts and fruits compared to the plain-flavored tteok used in home cooking. Some common ingredients for many kinds of tteok are mung bean, red bean, and sweet red bean paste, Korean mugwort, dates and other dried fruits, sesame seeds and oil, sugar, and pine nuts.
