Hi everybody! I’m pleased to introduce you to another traditional Korean recipe today. It’s called goguma-bap. In Korean Goguma is sweet potato, and bap is cooked rice. When I was in elementary school in Korea, I often watched my grandmother making this dish. She lived on an island, and when I visited her, I loved her goguma-bap. […]
Today’s recipe is Cantonese-style steamed chicken and rice. It’s a family recipe from one of my readers, Hannah Ong. She says: “I learned this from my grandmother and now I make this on regular basis for my family.” Of course as you see in the video, she also loves to cook Korean food on the […]
Collard greens are not a familiar vegetable in Korean cuisine. However, since the vegetable is nutritious, healthy, and delicious, I wanted to use it in my cooking. First I tried to make kimchi with it, but it turned out too tough. Then I tried cooked collard greens at a BBQ restaurant in New York and […]
Hi, everybody, I received an email last year from a man named Chris living in Germany. He said he changed his diet to Korean food and lost lots of kilos! He made his own Korean food following my recipes. I was very surprised but happy! I encouraged him to tell people about his success and […]
If you have looked closely the food photos on my website, you may already familiar with the name Reinier. Reinier lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He’s been very busy cooking Korean food these days and sending me the photos. He introduced himself on my website, “hi,… i was recently interested in Korean cuisine when we ‘accidentally’ […]
These small red beans have been used in Korean cuisine for thousands of years in rice and porridge dishes and also as a sweet filling for many desserts. They are sold in many other Asian markets, as well as whole-foods stores and many supermarkets. Buy beans that are the brightest red you can find, not […]
Which to get? Both are best sellers and either one is a good choice if you want to learn Korean home cooking. Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking has all the recipes for all the essential Korean pastes and sauces, but my second book Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking has more recipes, more photos, and more variety.
