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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
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Jun 3rd
Spicy cod fillets
Apr 20th
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Mar 23rd
Knife-cut noodle soup with perilla seeds
Mar 9th
Its nice to meet you Maangchi!
I got an asthma, do you have any suggestion which korean soups that suitable to cure asthma? or do you have tips to cure asthma?
I want to make 4 servings of this soup. Do I just double all of the ingredients and water amount? Thank you!
Yes, you can double all of the ingredients and cook longer until the radish turns translucent and cooked nicely. Good luck!
Hello Maangchi !
I thought at the beginning of the video I heard you say you were going to add the dried fish pieces when you make anchovy kelp stock. Dried anchovies with water and radish, and boil with dried kelp. Then add fish and make the broth really tasty. Where can I find this stock that you make? Thank you !
I didn’t make an individual recipe for anchovy kelp stock. It will be in my cookbook coming this October. Check out my soup recipes, then you will be able to find how I make anchovy kelp stock in some recipes. For example, I am showing how to to make anchovy kelp stock in fish cake soup (eomukguk). https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/eomukguk It’s delicious by itself but if you add dried pollock’s skin and head stuff to it, it will be more delicious.
Does leftover dried pollock soup reheat well?
Yes, you can refrigerate up to 3 days. Just reheat before serving.
Now I have a reason to go to H-Mart or Paldo World, to get dried pollack! Yum! Thank you Maangchi!
Hi Maangchi! I tried making this recipe, but the soup was rather bland for me. Is there a spicy version of this soup?
You can add hot pepper flakes right before serving if you want. This soup is usually eaten non-spicy version. If it’s too bland, add more dried pollock.
Aslo if you could include the calories from fat (not the calorie count, just the calories from fat) I would appreciate that! Love this site!!!
How much does this dish cost to make? I would really appreciate the prices being included in the information :)
Aloha 이모,
If I substituted dried pollock with raw instead how would the soup differ?
You need dried pollock to make bug-eo-guk. Fresh pollock has a different recipe. I will post it someday.
Aloha 이모,
If I don’t have dried pollock but raw instead, how would the taste of the soup differ if I cooked it the the same way?
Thank you maangchi! i love all your recipe!
Already done make this recipe!
it turns out really well!
i want to show you the picture if i can! LOL
I amazed with the taste of the dried pollock after taste this soup…what a chewy and tasty dried fish! i love it, only 1 problem that i have…i make the portion too much for one person!
:( so i can’t finish it all…although i already reduce the amout of the water
and i also i used salt instead the fist sauce, but it turns out kinda plain :(
but after all i kinda satisfied with the result and the taste! also practice makes perfect, right? ;)
Just got all of the ingredients, going to make it tonight!
I will take pictures for sure!
Someone added jalapeños and tofu to this soup and it was sooo good! Also one recipe from a Korean cook book coats the pollack strips with flour. Have you heard of this Maangchi?
Hi Maangchi! Thanks so much for this recipe. It’s one of my favorites since I moved to Korea. I just bought a bag of dried pollock to make it and I was wondering how to store the rest of the dried pollock once the bag has been opened. Would it keep fresher in the freezer?
Keep it in the freezer. It will always be fresh and moist.
Hi Maangchi!!
I am so super wonder wif the taste of bugeoguk! Just seeing ur video, I can feel the smell of soup is so good! (drolling until now,lol). Cant wait to make it :)!!
What I wanna ask is will it work perfect too if we use carrot instead of radish?
Just bcoz our country is a tropical place, we dun hv four seasons, so most of the people here dun hv to drink soju or wine. Im just curious that too often eating radish, does it affect for our healthy? Seems radish is a cold vegetable.
Yes, this soup is very delicious! ” will it work perfect too if we use carrot instead of radish?” no, you need radish or daikon. Radish and dried pollack are main ingredients for this soup.