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Which to get? I suggest my second book, Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking because it has the most recipes, but my first book has recipes for all the essential Korean pastes and sauces!
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Maangchi's recipes by category:Kimchi
Essential Korean dish
Side dishes
Banchan makes the meal
Rice
Our most important grain
Pancakes
Savory & simple
Rice cakes
Tteok for every occasion
Stews
Jjigae is our comfort food
Noodles
Long noodles = long life!
Soups
Guk at every meal
Sundubu-jjigae
Soft tofu stew
Gimbap
Seaweed paper rolls
Desserts
Special sweet stuff
Main dishes
Consider these mains
Mandu
Korean dumplings
Anju
Drinking food
BBQ
The Korean way to grill
Fried chicken
Double-deliciousness
One bowl meals
Nutritious & convenient
Street food
Quick & fun
Easy
Anyone can make these!
Lunchboxes
Dosirak made with love
Appetizers
These could be first
Fermented
Taste of centuries
Staple ingredients
Korean cuisine basics
Mitbanchan
Preserved side dishes
Pickles
Quick-brined
Spicy
I love spicy food :)
Nonspicy
There are plenty!
Beef
For meat lovers
Seafood
Surrounded by the sea
Pork
Some new dishes to try
Chicken
Our most delicious
Vegetarian
No fish, meat or chicken
Vegan
No animal products at all
Temple cuisine
From Buddhist temples
Korean Chinese
Chinese style Korean
Snacks
Quick dishes on the run
Korean bakery
Breads & pastries
Porridges
Good for your health!
Cold dishes
Icy, cold, or just chilled
Drinks
Fruits, grains & herbs
Not Korean
Fusion and western food
Kimchi
Essential Korean dish
Side dishes
Banchan makes the meal
Rice
Our most important grain
Pancakes
Savory & simple
Rice cakes
Tteok for every occasion
Stews
Jjigae is our comfort food
Noodles
Long noodles = long life!
Soups
Guk at every meal
Sundubu-jjigae
Soft tofu stew
Gimbap
Seaweed paper rolls
Desserts
Special sweet stuff
Main dishes
Consider these mains
Mandu
Korean dumplings
Anju
Drinking food
BBQ
The Korean way to grill
Fried chicken
Double-deliciousness
One bowl meals
Nutritious & convenient
Street food
Quick & fun
Easy
Anyone can make these!
Lunchboxes
Dosirak made with love
Appetizers
These could be first
Fermented
Taste of centuries
Staple ingredients
Korean cuisine basics
Mitbanchan
Preserved side dishes
Pickles
Quick-brined
Spicy
I love spicy food :)
Nonspicy
There are plenty!
Beef
For meat lovers
Seafood
Surrounded by the sea
Pork
Some new dishes to try
Chicken
Our most delicious
Vegetarian
No fish, meat or chicken
Vegan
No animal products at all
Temple cuisine
From Buddhist temples
Korean Chinese
Chinese style Korean
Snacks
Quick dishes on the run
Korean bakery
Breads & pastries
Porridges
Good for your health!
Cold dishes
Icy, cold, or just chilled
Drinks
Fruits, grains & herbs
Not Korean
Fusion and western food
My most popular Korean recipes
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Kimchi
Traditional-style spicy fermented whole-leaf cabbage kimchi
김치 -
Easy Kimchi
A traditional, simpler, & faster way to make kimchi
막김치 -
Japchae
Stir fried noodles with vegetables
잡채 -
Kkwabaegi
Twisted Korean doughnuts
꽈배기 -
Sundubu-jjigae
Soft tofu stew
순두부찌개 -
Yachaejeon
Vegetable pancake
야채전 -
Jjajangmyeon
Noodles with blackbean sauce
짜장면 -
Tteokbokki
Hot and spicy rice cakes
떡볶이 -
Dakgangjeong
Crispy and crunchy chicken
닭강정 -
Gimbap (aka Kimbap)
Seaweed rice rolls
김밥 -
Kimchi-jjigae
Kimchi stew
김치찌개 -
Kimchi-bokkeumbap
Kimchi fried rice
김치볶음밥 -
Bibimbap
Rice mixed with meat, vegetables, an egg, and chili pepper paste
비빔밥 -
Garaetteok
Long, cylinder-shaped rice cake
가래떡 -
Kimchijeon
Kimchi pancake
김치전
My most recent recipes
Spicy cod fillets
Apr 20th
Soybean paste stew with beef
Mar 23rd
Knife-cut noodle soup with perilla seeds
Mar 9th
Anchovy kelp stock
Feb 20th
I love this soup but I did not know flour is one of the ingredients. I don’t cook usually but this is easy enough I can try~ Thanks Maangchi!
You are very welcome! If you make it, let me know how it turns out,
Wow Maangchi. You make it look so, so simple. My son and I enjoyed watching your video. You made both of us laugh and hungry at the same time.
Thank you for enjoying my video recipe!
hi maangchi, i was wondering why you said shiraegi (garbage?) in the video once and not another time. looks good! and you’re right i haven’t met a korean who didn’t like this either
shiraegi(시래기) in Korean is different from sseuraegi (쓰레기:garbage) in Korean.
: )
When you make kimchi, you need baechu (napa cabbage). We usually take off the outer leaves because the leaves have some holes or some part of the leaf is rotten. If you make 10 heads of cabbage, the amount of the outer leaves will increase. We blanch these leaves to make soup, and sometimes dry them for winter. It’s called shiraegi. This is a way of saving money and cabbage.
The soup restaurant that I mentioned on my blog makes doenjang guk using shiraegi instead of inner part of cabbage. These days, cabbage is cheap and not many people use shiraegi to make doenjang guk. So I was supposed to say in the video “baechu doenjang guk” instead of “baechu shiraegi guk”.
Thanks for the cool lesson!
Hello Maangchi!! I’m so glad there is a doengjang soup I can make now..it’s getting pretty cold and I definitely have been craving to eat some warm soup every night. I will make this soon when I get one more cabbage! Thank you so much!! And the tofu side-dishes are making my mouth water, better make that soon as well too =) I saw you’re Guatemala pictures too! I would love to see the rest, it’s so interesting the places you visit, makes me very interested to go see them one day as well =]
I’m glad you like my recipes!
When you make this soup and tofu side dish, please update me.
Yes, I will post the photos that I took during my trip soon.
Thank you!
Yay!!! Thank you for posting the recipe for the soup. I can’t wait to make it :-D
yay! cheers! : )
I made this for lunch, I even measured the ingredients ;-)
It is delicious. This will be my new favorite for a few weeks.
It is easy and inexpensive to make.
Thank You Maangchi,
Oh and is there a beef version?
I think I would like to try beef and no anchovies.
yes, you can replace dried anchovies with beef if you are not a big fan of dried anchovies. Chop beef (about 200 grams for this recipe) into very small pieces.
I love anchovies. This is one of my tricks to get my western children loving Korean food. I will make this a couple of times with beef. Then I will make it with beef and a couple of anchovies, then I will leave out some beef.
I do a similar trick with kim-chi. I make “cabbage salad” with all the kim-chi ingredients. I leave out the fish sauce and I serve it fresh.
I am getting them to like it this way first.
Half of my kids love seafood so I sometimes make jjompong with seafood and sometimes with pork.
They all love bulgogi and the chicken wings.
My goal is to get as many westerners as possible to eat and LOVE Korean food.
Thank you for posting yet another fantastic recipe! I’m in love with Korean foods now and will continue to try out more dishes. Korean foods are full of various soups and stews which I welcome them for this coming winter.
yes, make your stomach warm just as I mentioned on my blog. : )
It’s great to see a new video! I hope you had a nice time on your vacation! This soup looks very delicious, and like you said it is very healthy! A perfect soup to eat in January for a “New Years Diet”! :)
yeah, I am already on a diet now. My weight control diet is very simple. I reduce the amount of food that goes into my mouth. lol
This soup is very healthful as you see the ingredients.
OMG this soup looks delicious !!!! i cant wait to try it
cool!
Welcome back, Maangchi ssi! ^^ Thanks for the new recipe, can’t wait to try it out…also going to try making it Halmoni’s way with the rice water. ^^
Kamsahamida!
haha, rice water, why not?
Yay, a new recipy! Great! Fast to make and easy to get ingredients.
yes, you will love it.
You where right, it was delicious!
I used your tip and added hot pepper paste before simmering.
Delicious!
yeah, you are back!!! hope you had a nice vacation! and thx for this simple yummp recipe :b
Thank you!
I’m so happy you posted this recipe. My Korean friend gave me some of this soup that she had made and I loved it. Today I bought cabbage and was wishing I had this recipe. I was going to make a salad with the cabbage if I couldn’t find a recipe for this soup.
Thank you,
Sylvia
What a coincidence!
I LOVE this soup! Sometimes this soup is served to us while we are waiting for our meals at the Korean restaurant we usually go to. I love drinking this soup. Thanks so much for posting this soup recipe. I can make my own now.
glad to hear that. Don’t forget to let me know how your soup turns out.
What kind of flour do u use?all purpose flour?it seems simple 2make. I’ll try soon!thank u!
all purpose flour! : )