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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
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Apr 20th
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Mar 9th
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Feb 20th
Dear Maangchi,
I plan to make this (or one of your other suggestions; we’ll entertain a dear Korean friend tonight again – “not hungry” when he arrived; still, he took seconds and thirds of my galbi-jjim ;-D) – but there’s a slight error in your ingredients list:
“1 pound pork belly, sliced thinly into pieces ½ inch x 2 inches and ⅛ inch thick”
Bye, Sanne.
Thanks Maangchi! Another fabulous and tasty recipe.
This was absolutely wonderful, thank you.
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It’s such a lovely table! All these dishes were made with your love!
Made this tonight and served it with a few other Maangchi recipes. Oi-muchim and my homemade traditional Kimchi w/ sticky rice. There’s thinly sliced white onion, minced green onion and some store bought Samantha. Me and my son enjoyed it very much…wife was watching the Super Bowl…:)
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It looks wonderful!
I didn’t have pears lying around so I used honey and another time I used unsweetened pineapple juice from the can. I figured the honey and also pineapple have a similar proteolytic property which tenderized the meat just fine.
When I make this, I end up with a lot of crystallized, burnt marinade on my little grill. How do you keep all that sugar and syrup from burning? In American BBQ, we don’t use sugar in the marinade (rub), only in the BBQ sauce. Is my fire too hot?
There’s always going to be some marinade on the grill, don’t worry about it. Before it burns, you can mix some rice on there for a quick bibimbap!
Maangchi! I just made this today to fulfil my craving and IT IS SUPER DELICIOUS..!
I made 2 kinds of marinade:
1. The spicy one, which uses gochujang
2. The non-spicy one, which i used doenjang instead of gochujang. I used 2 tbsp of doenjang + 2 more tbsp of corn syrup. The rest of the recipe are the same.
Thanks a lot and HUGE love from Indonesia!
Can I use this recipe with chicken? If so, should I make any changes? Thanks!
Hi Maangchi, I am your big fan from Malaysia. I just love to watch how you cut all the ingredients :)
Hi Maangchi !
Huge fan from Brazil here. Loved the recipe, but I got one question, is it possible to use only the asian pear juice rather than the puree ?
Thanks !
Yes, pear juice sounds good to me! Good luck!
This recipe is super, because its easy to make and it taste delicious thanks maangchi ^_^
So delicious. Served it with bok choy, rice and a cold pear cider.
Couldn’t find pears anywhere today, so used a gala apple instead.
Maangchi I made this for my friends. I originally planned to make Bulgogi with beef tenderloin but it was too expensive ($19.99/lb) compared to the much-cheaper pork belly ($3.49/lb!). We had a limited budget so the six pounds of Spicy Pork BBQ was perfect for us. We minced down every marinade ingredients since we didn’t have the mixer hahaha but it tasted amazing. Thank you so much, we all enjoyed it with lettuce!
“We minced down every marinade ingredients since we didn’t have the mixer..” Great, great! : )
Found this picture! It was so yummy.. We were so glad you were here to help us cook what was thought impossible haha!! Thank you again, we’ll try it next year too :D
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Pork bulgogi, samgak gimbap, tuna gimbap, tteokbokki, fried mandu! All look great!
I purchased pork belly with the skin on. To prepare this, should I remove the skin or can I leave it on?
Hi Maangchi !
Lil’ problem AGAIN .. hihih, I always leaves a comment in your recipes .. and it is always a PROBLEM .. hihih, we don’t have a food processor at home .. so , I’m just thinking if you can help me to find a substitute on that thing .. :) hihih. Thanks Maangchi ! Godbless :)