# The best kinds of Korean tteok (rice cakes)

Songpyeon, injeolmi, garaetteok, baekseolgi and sirutteok: the rice cakes of Korean holidays and celebrations.

- 1 vote · 16 items
- Apr 13, 2021 · bakeaholic93
- https://even.best/en/l/3289/the-best-kinds-of-korean-tteok-rice-cakes

## Top 16

1. **Injeolmi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pounded glutinous rice coated in roasted soybean flour.
2. **Songpyeon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Half-moon rice cakes made for Chuseok, filled with sesame, beans or chestnut.
3. **Garaetteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Long white cylinders used in the New Year soup tteokguk.
4. **Baekseolgi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steamed white rice cake served at 100-day and first birthdays.
5. **Sirutteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Layers of rice flour and red bean steamed in an earthenware steamer.
6. **Kkultteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Small rice cakes with a honey or sugar filling.
7. **Jeolpyeon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Flat rice cakes stamped with patterns.
8. **Jeungpyeon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice cake leavened with makgeolli.
9. **Ssuktteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Green rice cake made with mugwort.
10. **Chapssaltteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Round glutinous rice cake filled with red bean.
11. **Gaepi-tteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Half-moon cakes with filling, also called baram-tteok.
12. **Yaksik** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet glutinous rice with jujubes, chestnuts, pine nuts and honey.
13. **Hwajeon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pan-fried rice cakes topped with flowers like azalea.
14. **Gyeongdan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Glutinous rice balls coated in toppings.
15. **Mujigae-tteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steamed rice cake in rainbow-coloured layers.
16. **Manggae-tteok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice cake wrapped in sarsaparilla leaves, from Uiryeong.

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