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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
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maangchi eonni annyeong haseyo…thank u so much for sharing your recipes,,i tried zucchini pancakes and it turned out great! my husband is korean and he loved it so much….kamsahamnida eonni…
Good news! Your delicious food will make all your family happy!
Maangchi i tried this twice but they didn’t turn out like yours mine is mushy and i couldn’t flip it coz it stick to the bottom it didn’t stick together it end up scramble ,why is that ?i followed the recipe. i used the zucchini.:-(.
No problem! Use a non-stick pan which is very important to make crunchy hobakjeon . And add more vegetable oil to the heated pan before placing the batter.
One suggestion is to make sure your pan is not too hot. A lot of people use high heat to get the pan hot, but usually it’s too hot. Only medium heat is necessary. If the oil is running around like fast water, probably too hot. :)
And maangchi? This is the next dish I’m going to make for my brothers. They will go crazy over it, I know it! xD
“They will go crazy over it, I know it! ” aww! It sounds like fun!”
So maangchi, i made it for my brothers. They liked it but they didn’t LOVE it. Something did go wrong. First, I think when the zucchini was cooking in the pan, I think it released a lot of its own liquid and made the pancake kind of soggy. Also for the butternut squash, I don’t think it was fully ripened. How do I know that the butternut squash is ripe? (still delicious, but could be better. I want to try again!)
Hi, wonderful pancake recipes I’m going to make very soon! Maangchi, thank you for being so generous with your books.
Zucchini pancake was delicious and great. I made it with yangnyeom tongdak for a really fun meal!
http://ikkin-bot.blogspot.com/2011/06/cooking-korean-yangnyeom-tongdak.html
I love it~ thank y0u ~ you are an awesome cook~ I love cooking Korean food even more than before~ love ya~
love ya, too!
got some butternut pumpkin, having this for lunch tomorrow! Yum!!! Thankyou Maangchi !
I hope your butternut squash pancake turned out great!
Maangchi, thank you so much for sharing your recipes & cooking know how! Can you tell me what kind of 호박 you used in Korea? I live in South Korea & I can’t get butternut squash. Also, can I use 부침가루 instead of flour?
I’ve answered my own questions by just giving the 부침가루 & 단호박 (small green squash with bright orange flesh) a try. The resulting pancakes were delicious. :)
You answered your question! Great! ^^
Hi Maangchi, I’ve just made the zucchini/courgette pancake a second time, I like it even better than battered courgette slices/hobakjeon. My husband the chef can flip it. It’s nice to have a few good pancake side dishes to have a variety of banchan. When winter squash comes in season we’ll try the first pancake. Thanks for your recipes!
“My husband the chef can flip it” awesome!
:( Maangchi help .. every time i try to make these the pancakes turn out as mush! they brown on both sides but still end up mushy. I make them thin but still… whats wrong with it? Aren’t yours crispy?
No problem! : ) Add more flour to the batter then.
Hey Maangchi, I love this recipe, it’s so easy to make. But in the Zuchinni recipe, are you actually using zuchinni? Or do you mean cucumber?
zucchini! that’s what I used. : ) I never use cucumber to make a pancake.
Really easy to make! Great quick snack… I loved it. I didn’t have any problems this time! Next time I’m going to use squash instead of zucchini. :)
Next time I’ll use a better camera… my phone just doesn’t take great pics =/
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7197/hobakjeon.jpg
wow, it looks very crispy! delicious! Email me the photos of korean dishes that you make at [email protected]
oops! ok i’ll email them from now on
Hi Maangchi,
Merry Christmas! (Early Greetings from Singapore)
I plan to make Kimchi pancake this Christmas and would like to know whether the way to make it is the same as what you have taught?
Please kindly advice.
Love all your receipes and have been cooking them for my hubby who is a Korean.
Cheers,
Maangchi, you have expanded my husband’s ability to cook from just regular pancakes to zucchini pancakes! He really loves this dish, and I love it too because it only needs 3 ingredients. So delicious, just like childhood, *sigh*
I’m so happy to hear that you and your husband cook together! : )
Thank you so much for making this website! I am married to a Korean man and we have a little boy. Its so much easier to make Korean food than trying to translate from a Korean cookbook. But I would like to ask is there anything I can do to get my little boy to eat more food? I would like to make Korean food for him but he doesnt eat anything and I am alittle worried. I know Korean mothers worry so much about their children eating well and I would like my son to have a taste for Korean food. Is there any recipes that you know of that Korean children love? Please let me know!
Please copy and paste your question here so that you could get some good advice from my other readers. https://www.maangchi.com/talk/forum/general-discussion
Hi Maangchi
Thx for your recipe again. the pumkin pancakes turned out very tasty. the recipe is easy to follow. my bloggers made positive comments.
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/London-samwei/article?mid=18083
wow, you must be a great cook! Your squash pancake looks more delicious than mine!