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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
Hi Maangchi~
I habe tried your traditional kimchi and we love it! Now im back to try other recipe of yours!
can i replace beef with pork instead?
If yes, which part of pork will be good for this kimbap?
I cant find pickled radish here can i subsitue with japanese cucumbers as well?
Thank you for your recipe! My family and friends love my gimbap! Cheers to you and hope to see, know and read more of your delicious recipes! All the love! xx
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Hi maangchi! My family loves it! My kids brought it at school and shared it. And they all love it. Thank you!
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Dear Maangchi,
This has been my go-to kimbap recipe and I love it! Whenever I eat this, I tend to crave some kind of soup to go with it but I never know what would be good with kimbap. Do you have any recommendations for soups that would pair well with kimbap? Please share! And thank you for your delicious recipes!
Dear Maangchi!
I really love your receipes, but never made an account before today :)
I really want to make these gorgeous gimbap, but first i wanted to ask you how many days after preparation can you keep them in the fridge ? (i do not own a freezer, but anyways i’m sure this would be bad for the gimbap).
Have a great day!!!!!!!
Love the recipe, Maangchi! You made our night! We had great times with friends, great food, and great jokes from Maangchi! Xo
I made gimbap today, I didn’t follow your recipe I simply made it with some leftover shredded soy braised pork shoulder and made all the various things my husband and I eat with it. So my gimbap had pork, egg, danmuji, spinach side dish, lightly cooked carrots, onions cooked in leftover braising liquid from the pork that I keep in the freezer, lettuce and thin slices of Serrano pepper. I also completely misplaced my bamboo mat so I rolled my freehand. It was a lot of fun and it came out beautiful and delicious. I also added lime juice to my sushi rice. I love your website and YouTube channel and they always give me great inspiration to cook and handy idea for using leftovers.
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Love rolling “sushi” rolls
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Thanks Maangchi! I made 3 rolls of kimbap last week. However, I don’t know how to store the remaining seaweed paper and it turns not crispy and shinny as the first use. Could you please give me some advice? Many thanks.
You made gimbap! Congratulations! I always keep seaweed paper in the freezer.
Many thanks Maangchi. And do we have to toast it before use next time?
Hi, Maangchi
I have one question about seaweed, now I’m going to supermarket to get gimbap ingredients , if I bought roasted seaweed, still need to roasting it when I making gimbap?
There are 2 types of roasted (toasted) gim sold at a Korean grocery store. One is not oiled and the other is oiled. You should choose not oiled gim to make gimbap. Otherwise it will be too crispy to roll. “…still need to roasting it when I making gimbap?” You don’t need to toast gim again.
I always buy untoasted gim and toast it slightly before rolling gimbap.
Hi Maangchi! I’ve done my first gimbap. Inside was delicious but I think that my yaki nori was bad it was uneatable!. I’ve tried to eat it but it was like a chewing gum. Is it normal? or I’ve done something wrong?
Would had been better if you could distinguish gimbap from yaki nori. No gimbap isn’t chewy at all. I suppose your rice was too watery.
In Poland is really hard to find a proper gim but thanks for your reply.
Hello! Japanese rice was, especially for sushi, maybe it was too thin seaweed. In my country there was nothing Korean, to try something may use a Chinese or Japanese products.
Hi! I am very upset, I did everything you said, I have seaweeds Japanese and
they were broken rolling. went out something good but look bad.
I love Korean cuisine and I’d like to learn to cook but … I think something is wrong. Adelini
Adelini,
Maybe the toasted seaweed you used must be too fragile? Or Did you use short grain rice to make rice? Anyway, you need some practice to make nice looking gimbap.
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Maangchi, will sushi rice be ok for this recipe?
Yes, short grain rice is sushi rice. https://www.maangchi.com/ingredient/short-grain-rice
Thank you for your fast reply And happy Valentine’s Day( 59 minutes are still left)
I am so happy. Kimbap came out great and the children helped
Hi Maanchi! i am so glad i ran into your website, made my frist kimbab ever!! thank you Mangchi for the delicious recipe. i had to roll with my hand. i added cucumber, crab and sausage, spinach, eggs, carrots and used pork instead of beef! it was the bomb! :D
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wow, looking at your gimbap photo makes my mouth water this morning! You rolled it very nicely! Congratulations!