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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 have made seaweed soup many many times due to the influence of k-drama and a large Korean population in Honolulu.
I’ve used beef, pork spareribs, and clam meat. I adjust the taste of the broth to what I am using. All three versions are delicious.
We love Korean food and all kinds of banchan esp kimchee and taegu.
Your recipes are quite easy to follow and ingredients widely available here so it’s not a problem to find ingredients. In fact, many Korean food items are a staple in my pantry.
Looking forward to more great recipes!
Aloha from Hawaii!
I’m glad you are enjoying miyeokguk and more Korean recipes! You can make delicious miyeokguk with all kinds of ingredients. Of course miyeok is always there but the other things can be changed.
I had been flipping through your cookbook looking for the next “new” recipes I wanted to prepare and making a list of ingredients I need to purchase the next time I visit the Asian food market, when I stumbled across this recipe (with beef) on your web site. I happened to have a 2 oz package of wakame and a small package of frozen mixed seafood so I made a giant pot of this soup. It’s delicious! Thank you
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Wow, the mussels look so plump and delicious! You made perfect looking miyeokguk!
Maangchi!
I just made some kimchi, but used mussels instead of oysters, and now I have all these mussels left over, and I just happened to have hoarded some miyeok a few months ago, because I love it so much. Guess what I’m going to do with it all!?!?
The fact that this is your favourite has me very excited to try!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!
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Hi Maangchi, I’m planning a menu for a good friend who is going to deliver her baby next week. We’re both here alone in Australia without our mum’s for this event and I’d like to feed her something nutritious. I’m gonna make this soup for her to take to the ward. Can you make up a postpartum menu for my friend? Thank you!
This is such a good idea to prepare this food for your friend who will have a baby.
After giving birth to a baby, she will need some good nutritious food that’s not heavy or greasy that she can digest well. Here’s my suggestions: miyeok-guk, white or multigrain rice, kimchi
Beef pancakes
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/soegogi-jeon
Broccoli salad
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/broccoli-salad
Seasoned bok choy
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/bok-choy-muchim
Tofu pickles
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/dubujangajji
Hi Maangchi,
Love your site! I’ve been using your miyeok gook recipe for years and everyone loves it, especially the kids. Question: if I only have frozen mussels without the shell, will it affect the recipe very much?
It should be ok but I would use more of them. Good luck with making delicious miyeokguk!
Hi Maangchi!
I am excited to try to make miyeokguk tonight! I will use clams instead of the mussels. How would you call this soup made with clams?
I will let you know how it goes! :)
Thank you for the recipe!
I hope your miyeokguk turned out delicious! Jogae(조개) is clam in Korean, so your miyeokguk should be named Jogae-Miyeokguk. : )
Your video totally made me craving some Miyuk Guk , so I totally made some the next morning! Mentioned you on my post too, how your video made me crave it! http://www.behgopa.com/2014/06/miyuk-guk-seaweed-soup-ramblings.html
Thank you for mentioning my recipe on your blog. Good luck!
Oh I am craving miyuk gook now! I agree that it has a calming effect. I feel so calmed and soothed whenever I eat miyuk guk. I have tried poorly made ones before too! But when made properly, it’s sooo yummy. I don’t like my mom’s miyukguk much, but she always makes it for us on our birthdays. She makes it out of love, so how can we not enjoy it?!
Hello Maangchi,
I happen to have frozen mussel meat and seaweed which was meant for miyukguk, so the timing was uncanny! I decided to make this version last night and it was really yummy – very much the memory of the sea….But I reduced the amount of water because I like my soup a little stronger.
Very happy with your recipe!
yay, memory of the sea! “I reduced the amount of water because I like my soup a little stronger.” awesome!
What other seafood can you use instead of mussels or clams?
Sorry Maangchi. Your answer is writtten above. I can use any kind of seafood and meat.
Can’t wait to try this seaweed soup because I love seaweed.
no problem! : )