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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
Egg rice
Jun 3rd
Spicy cod fillets
Apr 20th
Soybean paste stew with beef
Mar 23rd
Knife-cut noodle soup with perilla seeds
Mar 9th
Hello my dear fellow Korean , alway so proud to see. Korean do good, you are. Life saver. ( food saver) lol, I have several questions . Please help
1) when bbqing wouldn’t the meat fall into the grill ( since I do i not have. The BBQ companion) .
2) I am gonna make this for my sons wedding rehearsal, (only Asian in the 100 mile radius, so they like my ” amerasian cooking, my om hated my i-noko cooking lol she use to laugh.) There any recommendation for cooking for large crowd?.
3) why do you not use Mirin?
I have to say thank you so much dear I am so proud of you I know you don’t know me from Jane but I am so glad I found you.
Oh do you have any spicy Korean chicken BBQ I ate it at akorean restaurant it is good do you have a recipe for it I tried but can’t make it come close thank you again
ok, these are my answers.
1) When I don’t use a charcoal companion or a grill topper, I usually place cooking foil on the grill and make tiny holes in it with fork. The holes are so tiny that the meat won’t fall into the grill and the flame will reach to the meat through the holes.
2) Prepare as much as you can in advance. Marinate the beef, make ssamjang, make yangnyeomjang for pajeori and keep it all in the fridge. On the morning of the wedding rehearsal day, wash the lettuce, cut the cucumbers and carrots into thin strips. And shred the green onions and put it in a plastic bag.
Check out my blog post about the New York kimchi contest. You will see how to prepare Korean BBQ for a big crowd: https://www.maangchi.com/blog/2010-nyc-kimchi-contest-report
3) I don’t see much difference between using Mirin or not. If you want to, use Mirin.
Good luck with your cooking for the big event! Let me know how it turns out!
Hi Maangchi! Im your biggest fan! Im living in korea now and I will start to prepare delicious korean food with your help! :) I love 뚝배기 불고기. How about posting a video with this recipe?
I made this last night for my kids and Husband. It was very good! Some of my family members thought it had too much garlic so next time 2 cloves instead. Hopefully it will still be as tasty. Going to try the other BBQ recipes since the weather is so warm in Las Vegas. Thank you :)
Yeah it will still be delicious. You can always modify the recipe to your taste.
Why do you add carrot to your bulgogi?
Was going to ask about the pan and just saw it already asked and answered! SO my next question is,
What type of knife do you use? Where could I find them? Thanks!!
You are beautiful and bubbly, I love watching your videos :) This is also a terrible site to peruse while pregnant, I am craving ALL THE THINGS ;)
oh this is my favorite knife: http://astore.amazon.com/cookkorefoodw-20/detail/B000A8IUN6
Just wanted to say this Bulgogi recipe is AWESOME! I tried it twice now and cooked on my cast iron pan, the family loved it every time!
You made my day! ooh whoo! : )
Is it feasible to use other type of beef than tenderloin ? Good quality tenderloin is prohibitively expensive.
You can use Sirloin, if that helps. Sirloin makes a good bulgogi and you can marinade it for longer than an hour to make it better!
Vegetarian bulgogi!!!! Genius! I usually love the bounty and variety of my mostly vegetarian diet, but there are a few meat dishes I miss. This is one.
I find usually what I miss about the meat is the sauce, or the toppings or the flavor mixture, and I bet this is similar (not really the actual meat). It’s the marinade that really makes the bulgogi.
Also, you look really pretty in this video : ) You always look pretty, but the braids really suit you! <3
Thank you so much! : ) It sounds like you are going to make mushroom marinade with bulgogo sauce! Let me know how yours turns out please! Happy cooking!
I will be making this at a bbq next week!! I can barely wait for the spicy bbq pork!! Thank you for sharing!!
“I can barely wait for the spicy bbq pork!! ” haha, it’s coming soon!
Maangchi…u r so cute !!!
Jenny, hope you and your family are doing well.
It is great!!! I love watching you…. Keep up the great work and when I am on a crunch financially I like to use a cup of brown sugar, a cup of orange soda and a cup of soy sauce and put ginger and garlic and onion in it and use that as a marinade for bulgogi and other things. I use sesame oil for the pan when cooking the bulgogi. It is a universal marinade for beef pork and chicken. Try it believe me when I say it is very close if not exactly the same taste.
It sounds good! Check out my another bulgogi recipe. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kimchi-bokkeumbap
You have changed it a bit from your original recipe but my husband loves bulgogi so I’m going to try this recipe this coming week as he loves bulgogi. The new video is fun to watch! Thank you for sharing. :)
Great! The photo of your kimchi is super popular among my FB readers! https://www.maangchi.com/photo/kimchi-28
Awesome recipe I can’t wait to try it! I love the pan you used for the bulgogi. What kind of pan is this? Also what kind of Korean side dishes would be good to serve with the bulgogi and spicy pork? I hope to try these recipes when you post the spicy pork recipe:)
That’s my friend’s pan. It was perfect for barbecuing bulgogi. Search the word “charcoal companion bbq grill pan” on the internet. You will probably find it.
Bulgogi is my life <3
Wow! I’m drooling! Love bulgogi;D