Maangchi's cookbooks


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
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
Braised beef in soy sauce
Aug 1st
Braised beltfish
Jul 16th
Egg rice
Jun 3rd
Spicy cod fillets
Apr 20th
hi maangchi~ i would want to try this with pepper flakes in it. how much should i put in? thanks~~
I would use 1 ts of hot pepper flakes.
Mix it well with other ingredients before pouring water into the bowl
I had some leftover oi naengguk in the fridge, but my wife accidentally put it in the blender! :O It was still very good, though. I think I may even like it better.
I just made the cold cucumber soup and it was excellent not to mention a very fast dish. I love cold sour soups. I frequent a Korean restaurant in the Chicago area called Woo Lae Oak. They often have a cold radish soup that is a clear salty and sour liquid with daikon radish. I love it. Can’t seem to find a recipe for this soup anywhere. Do you have one?
Thanks for the great recipe! Jon
Great! you like oinaengguk recipe! The water kimchi you tasted in the restaurant must be “dongchimi”. It’s included in the list of my upcoming recipes. Thank you!
I’m using your recipe to teach English to Korean moms. We’ll see how it goes. We’re going to learn some cooking vocabulary!
You must be a good teacher and also interested in cooking!
Let me know how your class is going. I think your students will have fun during the class!
My class went okay. Recently I made this at home. It’s so easy to make! I love it!
Thank you for your update!
haha, you are so cute in your video!!!
I can’t wait to try this recipe especially since it’s so hot now and I have lots of cucumbers. =) Hopefully, the “normal” (non-English) variety works as well!
Thanks for sharing!
-Diane
yeah, you remind me of oinaenguk. I should make it soon for myself. ; )
I made galbi tonight and made this soup to go with it. It was FANTASTIC! I haven’t had this since I left Korea 6 years ago, but it was just as I remembered. Excellent recipe! Thank you so much. I enjoy all of your recipes and videos and am so grateful to you for all the work you do here! (^o^)
I hope you can read my message. oinaenguk is very refreshing food, isn’t it?
Tracy,
haha, nice! Actually you can put some cooked noodles and eat it as cold noodles.
Pasi,
Thank you for your nice comment.
This recipe is a masterpiece, and I can understand the woman! Thanks a lot for sharing. This is Quick, Easy and OH SO GOOD! I combined it with warm sake to create an interesting temperature difference.
Hi Maangchi I just wanted to let you know that I tried this recipe for the first time today and it was delicious the recipe calls for two servings but I found myself eating the whole thing hehe. The flavour reminded me of vietnamese cuisine. I love all your recipes and your videos. Korean food has always been fascinating to me and thanks to your help I can now cook korean right at home for my family! Thanks Maangchi :)
anny from Athens,
adding extra chilly flakes sounds good! : )
Just wanted to say thank you for the excellent recipes!!!
I know it’s winter now, but it was a sunny warm day today, and I was doing some gardening. I made this soup, because I needed something refreshing and spicy to pick me up! I added extra red chilly flakes, and it was good!!!
Keep up the good work Maangchi! Kisses from sunny Athens/Greece!
sweetmilky,
Yes, you should steam it.
Hi Maangchi! I love to see your cooking videos. You make korean cooking very easy for me^^, At first, I thought preparing korean dish is quite difficult but it’s not. Thanks to you^^,
bdw, I wonder how would I prepare the eggplant for naengguk. Do I have to boil the eggplant and add it to naengguk or it’s just fresh eggplant?
Again, congratulations for a job well done Maangchi!^^,
Wow Maangchi, thanks so much for the quick reply. I can’t wait till you post your versions of those recipes!!!
tha,
oh, the cucumber side dish you had is very easy to make.
Slice English cucumber thinly and sprinkle some salt. Remove water from the salted cucumber 10 minutes later and squeeze it slightly. In a bowl, put some minced garlic, hot pepper paste and powder, vinegar, sugar and mix it. Then add the sliced cucumber to the bowl and mix it. Sprinkle some sesame seeds and sesame oil.
My cucumber side dish doesn’t use vinegar. I will post the recipe someday later.
The recipe for fish cake side dish will be posted later, too.
Thanks a lot!