Spicy Rice Cakes (떡볶이)

Hello everyone! It's been a long time since I updated here...been busy with school work already. Anyways, today I wanted to share a quick recipe with you. It's Korean Spicy Rice Cakes. I actually made a Youtube Account recently and I posted a video about this :) I think I'll be moving onto Youtube now so please come visit :)



Spicy Rice Cakes
Ingredients:
Rice Cakes:
2 1/2 cups rice cakes (30 sticks)
2 sheets fish cakes
1 cup onions
3/4 cup cabbage
1 stalk green onion
sesame seeds (to taste)

Broth:
2 3/4 cups water
4 pieces dashima
7 dried anchovies

Sauce:
2 1/2 tbsp red pepper paste
1 1/2 tbsp red pepper flakes
1/2 tbsp white sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp garlic (minced finely)
2 tbsp cooking syrup (corn syrup)

Directions:
1. In a saucepan, boil dried anchovies, dashima pieces, and water for 10 minutes on medium-high heat.
2. Meanwhile, cut the onions into 1/3 in pieces, the cabbage into 1/2 in pieces, and the green onion into 1/4 in pieces. Set aside.
3. Once the broth has boiled for 10 minutes, discard the dashima and dried anchovies. Add the red pepper flakes and red pepper paste into the broth and stir to dissolve (it may be difficult to dissolve the red pepper paste at first, but it will eventually dissolve).
4. Once dissolved, add white sugar, soy sauce, minced garlic and stir. Boil on medium heat for 5 minutes.
5. After 5 minutes, add the rice cakes, onions, cabbage and stir. Cook for 2 minutes.
6. Cut the fish cakes into 1 1/2 in triangles and stir into the mixture. Keep on stirring and cook on medium heat for 5 minutes (if you do not stir from time to time, the rice cakes will stick to the bottom of the pan).
7. Add the cooking syrup and cook for an additional minute. Garnish with green onions and sesame seeds.
8. Enjoy! :)