Cooking Korean food with Maangchi » Korean cooking ingredients

mung bean jelly starch powder

Maangchi — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:12 +0000

Thin wheat flour noodles

Maangchi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:20:01 +0000

These thin noodles are used in kongguksu.

Very very thin! Make sure to buy the right ones so your kongguksu will be delicious.

Seaweed for samgak kimbap

Maangchi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:37:46 +0000

This little kit came with the mold and the seaweed:

Perilla seeds powder (deulkkae garu)

Maangchi — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:08:22 +0000

Fish cakes

Maangchi — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:46:27 +0000

Black sweet rice

Maangchi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:36:21 +0000

Black sweet rice (black glutinous rice or black sticky rice) is a naturally-grown whole grain. The dark purple grains give the rice a nutty flavor. When you make multigrain rice, add a handful of this and your rice will be beautiful and taste a little nutty.

Abalone

Maangchi — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:56:21 +0000

Here’s frozen abalone, thawed out. You see a lot of grit here, so it needs to be scrubbed off with a bush. You can see this in my jeonbokjuk video.

Here’s the same abalone, scrubbed. See how clean it looks? Very fresh!

If your abalone is fresh, you probably don’t need to scrub it with a brush. Just use your hand to rinse it. You can even eat the intestines of fresh abalone! It’ll be delicious.

Clams

Maangchi — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:40:20 +0000

Barley malt powder

Maangchi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:23:38 +0000

Sliced rice cake

Maangchi — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:48:54 +0000

This is a vacuum-sealed pack of sliced rice cake that we use for rice cake soup. You can find it in the frozen section of the Korean grocery store.

I used to make a huge amount of sliced rice cake by myself. What I did was soak short grain rice overnight and then take it to my local mill. They had a machine to steam my rice and then make a large tube of rice cake. I would bring this tube home for one day for it to get solid. One day later I took it back to the local mill and they sliced it. If I tried to cut it myself it was too much work.

These packages are more convenient. The taste is the same, and the sizes are more uniform. And no more blisters!