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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 your videos, your personality, and recipes. This stew is my ABSOLUTE favorite dish of all time. Thank you for sharing. I hope to meet you someday!
Thank you for your recipes! You are so cute! My best friend is korean and I have happy memories of learning ro cook with them. I cannot cook american food, but korean i enjoy very much. My dongsaeng told me about your recipes and I have been a fan since.
3 things
1) I am vegan so i substitute the fish & shrimp & use seaweed for ocean flavor. I like it!
2) In the future if you have any advice for those of us who cannot eat gluten but Loooooooove korean food, please share. My doctor said I cannot eat, but wheat is in so many korean pastes. TT Now, I cannot eat many of my favourite korean foods. So, I cook for my mom but i miss samjang! If you know, please share.
3) I am curious if i can make doenjang jigae in a very large pot and freeze small portions for my mother? That way if i am not there she can heat it and add fresh wild onion. I like to make her healthy meals that are easy for her to heat.
dear maangchi,, is it alright if i didn’t use the dried anchovies and shrimp ? i’m allergic to seafood.
and is there any other ingredients that i can use to replace those two ?
thankyouu
Dear maangchi
hi, forgot to include this haha!
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Hi! Thank you for this recipe! And here’s mine, I added Fisk cake too. And it was delicious with kimchi! Thank you!
hi maangchi…i don’t have earthenware pot. can i just use stainleessteel pot? thank you
Yes, you can use a regular pot! I sometimes make it with my stainless steel pot, too.
ah..ic….so i can use my regular pot for all jjigae recipe right? tq so much maangchi…
Dear Ms Maangchi !
Millions of wishes and appreciations for your great job !
I am from India, but now living in Beijing China. I had opportunity to lived in Seoul Korea as well. Being a new and stranger in China in terms of language and Chinese food, I found couple of Korean Restaurant to eat Korean foods, but I could not get the taste of real Korean authentic food. So I thought to learn by my self Korean simple cooking at home. And with this search or thought, I got to hangup on your website, I feel wow..its amazing what I was looking for…you saved my time and money !!
I brought earthen black pot, and 된장 from Korea Mart and tried to cook 된장찌게…wow taste was superb !
I will learn more dishes one by one from your website and hope me and my friends will enjoy Korean food at my Indian home Kitchen.
Thank you so much for your wonderful work…!!
Hi Maangchi!
I am newbe in Korea. I found your blog last week and I tried this Doenjang Jjigae recipe just now. Easy and yummy….I added a little of hot pepper paste bacause we like spice. Can’t wait until my children come back from school because I made it as per their request.
Thank you Maangchi!
Did you get some compliments on your doenjang jjigae from your children? : ) Good luck with your Korean cooking!
They said it was like real Korean cooking we usually eat at local restaurant :D They like it and also my husband! Now I have source whenever I want to try cooking some Korean dishes. Thanks a lot.
Good luck with your Korean cooking!
Thanks for another simple yet delicious and healthy recipe!
Just one thing: from my past readings I learnt that miso (so I assume the same would be true for doenjang?) shouldn’t be boiled for more than 1-2 minutes in order to not kill the healthy beneficial enzymes, however this recipe calls for boiling it for 15-20 minutes.
I’m just curious to know your/everyone’s opinion on this “medicinal” aspect, which is something I’m quite passionate about.. I guess I’ve watched too much Dae Jang Geum! ;)
Cheers
Don’t worry much about the enzymes. Probiotic Bacillus subtilis can endure extreme heat during the stew is cooked. Good luck with your Korean cooking!
Hi Maangchi!
I have been following your blog for quite some time and cooked some truly delicious dishes per your recipes!
I have a questions regarding doengjiang jiggae – can I use Dashida anchovy soup stock for instead of 7 dried anchovies? How many tb spoons of the stock I should put to replace them?
Thanks!
yes, you can use the soup powder, maybe 1 tablespoon? Taste the stew and add more if you want. Good luck!
I just found this recipe. It’s really simple and tasty! Since I am not a fan of anchovies, I used a few places of dashima (dried kelp) instead. I found the jjigae lacked salt overall, probably because I didn’t use the anchovies. Do you recommend I add some soup soy sauce (gook gan jang) or salt to make up for the lack of saltiness?
You can add more doenjang which is this stew’s main ingredient. Doenjang is salty.
And also you can use beef or chicken broth instead of using dried anchovies. Adding dried kelp is great! : ) https://www.maangchi.com/ingredient/doenjang
Dear maangchi,
A couple of years ago I made this recipe, it was yummy !
Now I came across doenjang in the asian store, so I thought of this again. I’ll make a ‘frugal’ vegetarian doenjang this time, also with delicious fresh tofu from the asian store. I’m sure I will remember how good this recipe was !
Your frugal doenjang jjigae sounds great and healthy!
I would like to thank you so much for posting up these recipes and the ingredients preparation pictures! As someone who does not know anything about Korean cooking, your pictures have helped me a lot with finding these ingredients in the Korean supermarket. I would like to specifically point out the pictures for the doenjang. If it weren’t for that picture, I would not have known what I should be looking for. I am looking forward to trying out these recipes.
Sincerely,
xjapaholic.
Great great! Happy cooking!
Dear Maangchi…I have been using the recipes from your site for a few years now but never took the time to write to you, how happy you made me and ny husband with your recipes.
We both think you deserve a big STATUE!!! Everything is explained so clair! Before we went to Korea I already made Jap Chae and because I never tasted it before it was a bit difficult. When we tasted the dish in Korea we found out that the taste was very simmular to what I made….You can imagine how proud I was… My husband was born in Korea and now we live in the Netherlands. Thank you so much !!! warm regards Petra Lee X
“You can imagine how proud I was..”
yes, I’m also proud of you, too! Someday I’d like to taste your japchae! : )
It’s early morning here in Mexico city. You already made my day!
Happy cooking!