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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!
I always found spicy rice cakes very attractive and was upset, that I can’t tolerate spicy food al all, so, I was very happy, when I found this recipe (and whole site!)
I doubled amount of everything, but when we started eating, I realized, I made a horrible mistake: I should cook at least 4 lbs of it! Seriously, one of the best foods I ever ate! Barely anything left for tomorrow.
Meat was very lean round steak and I took oyster mushrooms (store had very good ones).
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I wanted to make this for a long time, tonight I finally did. I was so pleased with the flavor on this dish. I love the chewy texture of rice cakes, I’m glad I have another favorite dish to use them in. I could not find a small Brisket beef, so I ended up using tenderloin. Thank you Maangchi.
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OMG this looks so perfect! With makgeolli! The photo is awesome!
We made this last night for dinner. We will be making this often forever. So very good. Actually this is the third recipe of yours I’ve made and they have all been popular in my house.
So I decided to sign in and let you know. You Rock!
yay! It sounds like you are getting into Korean cooking these days! Good luck!
Thank you for this recipe! I tried this while I was in LA and loved it so much, I wanted to make it for my husband when I came home. I searched on Google for a recipe and was so happy your website was the #1 result! I made you mak-kimchi recipe and it was so good, and I’ve watched lots of your videos. This turned out so good, and I made the short grain rice flour and garaetokkk using your recipes too. :) My husband says “that was probably one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.” Next time I will try to make your yellow pickled radish and also jjajangmyeon, and my husband asks me to please make him spicy rice cakes. Thank you Maangchi!
Thanks a lot maangchi my little sister have a problem with spicy food … and she really wanted to taste the rise cakes
I am going to make her these (she just got her results and she succeed )
This will be my present for her
Thanks maangchi thanks alot
This is awesome. I’ve recently got interested in Korean food after trying some once. I loved it. Since then I’ve been trying to cook some recipes for myself and for a good friend who loves it. This one in particular looks delicious.
i’m making this tonight for my parents ahh so excited<3 wish me luck!
Thank you Maangchi! I have an adopted Korean daughter and have tried for years to find somewhere to get cooking lessons for Korean food. Now that I have found your website, I have tried many recipes and have had success with all of them. You make them so simple and easy to understand and your videos are great. Japchae and Royal court stir fried rice cakes are definitely two of my favorites. Thanks again.
You are learning Korean cooking for your daughter who came from Korea! I feel so warm! You are such a great mom. I’d like to meet you and your daughter someday! Don’t forget to say hello to your daughter for me! : )
Finally I can learn how to make the korean dishes I’ve loved for years! All of my friends growing up were Korean and I have such fond memories of eating homemade korean dishes at their houses everyday. Thank you so much Maangchi! The recipes I have tried so far have been delicious!
Wonderful!
‘I have such fond memories of eating homemade korean dishes at their houses everyday” yes, certain dishes bring back us good memories. Food connects people!
Thank you Manngchi!
This was so delicious and now one of my favorite Korean dishes!!!
So happy that I found you Maangchi! I’m an Alaskan that loves Korean food and now I can learn how to create all the dishes that I love to eat at my local Korean Barbecue place here in Anchorage. Ddeokbokki is one of my favorites and looking forward to making the ‘Royal Court’ version. Looks tasty! I’ll let you know how it turns out.
P.S. I made your Kimchi recipe a few days ago and am now letting it ferment in the fridge. I ate a little bit of it last night and it is tasting great! Oh, did I mention that there’s a huge Korean community here in Alaska? Finding all the ingredients necessary is easy as there are many Korean and international markets here.
-Michael
This looks delicious. I am a Canadian married to a korean and i have started blogging about Korean food. I will link back to this one when I make it. I just need to go and get some rice cakes! :)
Thank you for this recipe. I made it this evening and it’s delicious! I really love your videos and blog. Thank you for helping me dive deeper into Korean cuisine!
awesome! Happy cooking!
Thank you so much for posting all of your wonderful recipes! My best friend who I’ve known for 20 years is Korean and I grew up with her mothers food, this brings back all the memories of my adolescence. Your instructions are easy to follow and the outcome is delicious! This recipe is a new favorite of mine! Thank you again!
Nice meeting you! I love your id “myeolchigirl”. Myeolchi is anchovies, so I assume you love anchovies or you are very slim like myeolchi! : )
“I grew up with her mothers food, this brings back all the memories of my adolescence…” yes, certain food always brings back good memories.
You are right I love myeolchi! The name is because my best friend’s mother-in-law who is also Korean was being cheeky one day (we had just met) while I was visiting her house. She invited us to stay for lunch (I of course couldn’t refuse as I love Korean food and would never pass up an opportunity to have some). She had no idea that I had grown up eating at my best friends house and started passing the side dishes around. She giggled when I put a heaping pile of myeolchi on my plate thinking I wouldn’t like it. I told her that not only am I Portuguese and have had a healthy diet with fish in it, I also have been eating myeolchi since I was twelve years old. From that day on she has always called me myeolchi girl.
This looks fantastic and delicious! I’ve been wanting to make ddeokbokki for a while now but I’m very sensitive to spicy food, so I’m very excited about gungjung ddeokbokki.
I always become very giddy when you upload a new video. I can’t wait to start cooking all of these wonderful Korean dishes.
I hope yours turns out very delicious! Let me know how it turns out.