Korean cooking ingredients:

Hot pepper flakes

Korean: 고추가루
Romanized Korean: gochugaru
Where can I buy this? | What recipes use this?

You can choose either mild or hot. This package says “less spicy” which means mild hot pepper flakes.

“Maewoon gochu gaaroo” means very hot spicy hotpepper flakes and “Deol Maewoon gochu gaaroo” means less spicy hot pepper flakes.

This one is tricky because in English it says “Red Pepper Powder Piment” and “Coarse” but the translation is not good. this is a bag of hot pepper flakes. You can tell by looking at the coarse flakes, and by the Korean writing.

Posted Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Tagged: Chili pepper, 고추가루, gochugaru, hot pepper flakes, hot pepper powder, korean food, korean ingredients, Maangchi

81 Comments:

Multiexponential Malaysia My profile page joined 8/10
Posted August 20th, 2010 at 11:15 am | # | Log in to reply.
Is it possible to get This in any other places? I couldn’t start making my kimchi without this! HELP =(
- Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
  Posted August 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm | # | Log in to reply.
  You are living in Malaysia, check this out to find if you have a Korean grocery store in your area or not.
  http://www.maangchi.com/shopping#Malaysia
wernlyn My profile page joined 7/10
Posted July 19th, 2010 at 8:46 am | # | Log in to reply.
can i blend my dry chilis and make this?
babykidzli My profile page joined 7/10
Posted July 13th, 2010 at 5:50 am | # | Log in to reply.
this hot pepper looks lik the chili powder >.< but is not chili powder?
babykidzli My profile page joined 7/10
Posted July 13th, 2010 at 4:38 am | # | Log in to reply.
hi.. can anyone tell me where can i get hot pepper flakes in melaka, malaysia? i try to find even in jusco melaka but onli have chili powder >.< i'm in love with kimchi hope anyone can let me know
- Maangchi New York City My profile page joined 8/08
  Posted July 13th, 2010 at 4:33 pm | # | Log in to reply.
  Check this out please. http://www.maangchi.com/shopping#Malaysia