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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
Finally I got to trying to make Kimbap. Made three different kind; tuna, kimchi and crabsticks, and beef. Used some of your Tuna kimbap recipe but also just did the filling a little bit just how I felt to No danmuji available here in Iceland so I made my own from scratch. Unfortunately I couldn’t use your recipe since some of the ingredients are not available here. But I found another simple recipe and maybe it isn’t as good as yours, but my Kimbap turned out great. First time trying this, never even made Sushi, and I’m actually pretty pleased with myself Thank you so much for all your delicious recipes.
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You must be a great cook! The presentation is awesome and most of all you made this with limited ingredients! I hope there are more Korean cooking ingredients available in Iceland soon.
Hi Maangchi!:) Thank you for sharing recipes with us. This is my second time making gimbap^^
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Each piece of your gimbap looks very handsome! : )
Maangchi, is it okay if instead of yellow pickled radish, i will just use cucumber as an alternative?
I love it when hubby makes me Gimbap!
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Wow looks great! I love the presentation!
Hi Maangchi! My friends and I made kimbap using your recipe and it turned out pretty yummy. Thank you for the recipe, we enjoye it!
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Wow, the rice looks like top quality, well made rice. I can see each grain. Colorful and delicious-looking, congratulations!
Can I make this a night before and eat it the next day?
No, gimbap should be made the day you are eating it, because it’s best only for several hours. I always wake up early the day I make gimbap.
Hi maangchi! I tried making my own rice rolls.. it wasn’t perfect but my family enjoyed it I hope the next time I do it better!
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Even though this photo is a little blurry, I know your gimbap was delicious! Congratulations!
For a Christmas party.
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Gorgeous! I would eat your gimbap first, at any Christmas party!
hi maangchi is there any alternative for pickled radish?? or its optional??
I’m planning to make this recipe for my husband. I’ve been tried almost all of your recipe and my husband love it very much especially your traditional kimchi.
Me and my husband love korean food very much, i watched most of your video recipe and im so happy that my husband really like it..im looking forward to learn more of your recipe maangchi!
You can use cucumber. Cut cucumber into long strips and add some salt, sugar, and vinegar and mix well. Let it stand for about 10 minutes and dry them with paper towel and use them for gimbap.
Hi, I’m from philippines as well, what kind of rice did you use for making this delicious kimbap?? I tried mine with regular rice and it is a real mess, I want to try again and I want it to be perferct :) please reply thankyou
Hi Maangchi, I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and finally got around to making your gimbap recipe. I switched out the beef for tuna and it was very good! Thank you very much for teaching us how to make Korean food!
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Wow amazing! It’s a huge amount of gimbap and it all looks beautiful and delicious!
Wonderful recipe Maangchi. We veganized it with completely animal cruelty free ingredients
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It looks so pretty! What’s the filling?
Thank you very much !! We used instead of eggs japanese/chinese tofu skin yuba, it looks very similar instead of meat we used soy meat (texturized vegetable protein).
oh, I see it! Thanks!
These taste wonderful! My teen-age daughter and I made them together. We did not realize that we did not center the ingredients very well until we were all done rolling. Oh, well. Will try to do better next time. This was our first time buying pickled radish, and it is delightful, too. How about pickled radish in potato salad or chicken salad? And of course, we must make more gimbap!
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You did a great job – a lot of colorful fillings. It looks delicious, and I can picture you working with your teenage daughter together. I’m sure you made some nice memories that day.
Hello, Maangchi!
I was looking for a recipe with rice that would fit my husband’s taste for his lunch box, and yet I have found this. It is my first time and honestly I enjoyed a lot making this…
I made only one roll since I ran out of cooked rice haha…
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Your gimbap looks stunning! Great photo, too!
It’s so yummy and it sure made a lot too. I got quite a few compliments from a friend and my grandmother. I will definitely be making this again.
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Wow your gimbap looks perfect! Plenty of fillings inside, perfectly centered, no wonder you got so many compliments! Happy cooking!
Hi maangchi, here’s my version of gimpab.. thank you for all your recipe’s and videos. This is actually my 1st time doing it and my 2nd korean dish that i have made. I just had a hard time rolling it. Its good nonetheless. I might be able to sell this and make money out of it..lol.. i have orders already.
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I feel like making gimbap now after looking at your gimbap photo!