Sotteok Sotteok Pizza
The flavors of sotteok sotteok- rice cakes, sausage, and a sweet and spicy sauce, all loaded on a pizza with lots of mozzarella cheese! I love sotteok sotteok and the name itself is really fun and clever, which you may know, is something I love to do when naming my recipes. Basically sotteok is a portmanteau of the Korean words for sausage and rice cakes (sosij + tteok). by repeating the word twice, you replicate what is on the skewer. Like this:
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SAUSAGE
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RICECAKE
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SAUSAGE
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RICECAKE
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So why did I want to put Sotteok on Pizza?
Why do people want to put anything on pizza? haha. I love pizza. I also love hot dogs and its the summer. Sotteok is not traditionally with hot dogs, the sausage is a little different. I wanted to try it with mini hot dogs. I made this twice before I eventually got it right. The key was using small rice cakes, and cutting the hot dogs in half. When I made it with whole mini hot dogs, and larger rice cakes, it was weighing down the whole pizza.
Make the pizza dough
I use this How to Pizza recipe and guide when I make pizza now. I have been making pizza for a long time and this guide has really helped me improve and feel more confident about my pizzas. Let the dough sit in the fridge to proof for a few days, then spread it on the peel.
Add the sotteok sotteok toppings to the pizza
Sotteok sotteok sauce is make from ketchup, sugar, gochujang, and soy sauce at its base level. I added a little honey, mustard, and vinegar to mine.
Prepping the mini hot dogs
I cut the hot dogs in half, then added a crosshatch pattern. This helped the sauce get into the dogs really well. Fry the dogs in a pan for a few minutes to help open up the crosshatch and add some color.
Add the hot dogs and rice cakes to the pizza in a repeating pattern to replicate the sotteok sotteok skewers. Then brush on more of that tasty sauce.
Bake the sotteok sotteok pizza
Finish the pizza with a little more cheese, but not too much so you can really see the hot dogs and rice cakes. Then some sesame seeds and gochugaru and get it into the oven! I cooked mine at in a pizza oven 650 for about 6 minutes, but a regular oven at 550 for about 8-10 can be just as good.
Serve the sotteok sotteok pizza
Finish with a drizzle of sesame oil, then slice and serve!
This pizza was miles away better than I expected. I knew it would be good but the flavors all came together in an amazing way. The sauce was perfect! Sweet and spicy perfection. So many people are finishing their pizzas with hot honey these days, so the sweet gochujang sauce really made sense.
Twists and resources for this recipe
You could definitely do this pizza with a more traditional sotteok sotteok sausage. You could also make this pizza with store bought dough instead of making your own.
For more on making traditional sotteok sotteok check out this recipe. I already mentioned where I get my pizza dough recipe, so head there if you want to just get better in general at making pizzas. If you are more of a beginner, definitely check out that page instead of using my loosely written recipe for the dough.
for more to make with mini hot dogs, check out my hot dog deviled eggs, or these pigs in a scallion pancake blanket.
Sotteok Sotteok Pizza
Equipment
- stand mixer
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- 300 grams flour
- 7.5 grams salt
- 1/2 teaspoon yeast
- 5 grams sugar
- 6 grams olive oil
- 186 grams cold water
Sotteok Sotteok Sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons gochujang
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup water
Pizzas
- 10 ounce mini hot dogs sliced in half the long way
- 40 small Korean rice cakes
- 3 cups mozzarella cheese (preferably grated yourself)
- sesame seeds
- gochugaru
- sesame oil
Instructions
Dough
- Make the pizza dough in advance – mix the dough ingredients in a bowl or stand mixer. Knead in the mixer or by hand on the counter until smooth and elastic. I do mine by hand for 20 minutes. If you are using a mixer it will take 7-10 minutes. See linked recipe above for more detailed advice.
- Split the dough into 2 equal parts. Form a smooth ball with each. Place into a well oiled container, making sure the whole dough ball gets a slight but even coating of oil. Cover and place into the fridge for 48-72 hours
- Take the dough out of the fridge about 2 or 3 hours before you are ready to shape and use!
Sauce
- Mix all the sauce ingredients in a small sauce pan. Bring to a simmer while whisking. Simmer for 3 minutes, or more if the sauce looks thin. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Prep the toppings
- Cut the hot dogs in half the long way, and use a sharp knife to score the uncut side in a crosshatch pattern. Add them to a hot pan with some oil to cook slightly, adding a little color to the crosshatched side, and allowing the pattern to open up a bit. Remove from heat.
- Bring a pot to a boil and cook the rice cakes until tender all the way through. Strain and toss with a little oil to avoid sticking. If they are now too big to match the size of the hot dogs, cut them, either the same way you cut the hot dogs, or just cut them in half. Either way the size and shape should be similar to the hot dogs.
Make the pizza
- preheat your oven as high as it goes. 550 with a pizza steel is great. I have a pizza oven and cook at 650
- Add some flour to the pizza peel and your hands. Flip the dough out of the container, shaking off excess oil. The top of your resting dough ball will be the bottom of your pizza.
- Stretch the dough into a circle and place it on the peel. Brush on some of the sauce, then add cheese. Top with the hot dogs and rice cakes, making sure the crosshatched side of the hot dogs are facing up. Brush more sauce on top.
- Top with a little more cheese, but not too much, you want to see the hot dogs and rice cakes on the pizza. Then top with sesame seeds and gochugaru.
- Cook the pizza until the crust is beautifully browned. Spin if needed midway through cooking.
- Drizzle with sesame oil and serve. Serve with gochugaru on the side so people can add more as desired.