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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
I love your cooking!!! My husband and I are in the process of finalizing the adoption of two beautiful Korean twin babies. My husband is American and I am from Mexico, we are a multicultural family. I love cooking since it’s been part of my culture to gather with friends and family at the dinner table while enjoying delicious food, now that we have the blessing of those two beautiful babies I am trying really hard to learn about their culture to help them keep their roots alive and since cooking has been a big part of me, I’ve decided to learn Korean cuisine for them. I’ve already tried several of your recipes and have been a total success. Thank you so much for enjoying you cooking and culture with us. Here is picture of the ox bone hangover soup I made, It was delicious!!!
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Hi Maangchi. I love your recipes. I used to live in Korea. I love Haejangguk. Can you post pork hangover soup. And what is this flakes on top. Where can i buy it. it tastes good with this flakes. Thank you Maangchi
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Hey the black and white flakes on top are perilla seeds, powdered in this case. I guess you could buy them in a korean shop or maybe online like on amazon!
Hi Vale,
It looks like pork bone soup called gamjatang which is served as a hangover cure soup in Korea. Mila_eche is right. The black powder on top of the soup is deulkkage-garu (perilla seeds powder). Check out my gamjatang recipe here. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamjatang
Dear Maangchi, I love all your recipes. I made this soup with 등뼈 & 고춧가루 additional in it, and because I don’t have fish sauce I just added normal soy sauce and it turned out so delicious! My husband keep saying my first cook is turned out so nice,he doesn’t believed that I can cook korean food and even kept ate more rice!!! Thank you so much maangchi~!!! Keep healthy and beautiful
Hello!
I lived in South Korea for 11 years and since moving back to Canada, I’ve really been craving 뼈다귀해장국 but I’m looking for a recipe for the spicy version, like this one where it has napa cabbage and maybe a couple of other veggies but is nice and spicy! Is there any chance you could post a recipe for this version?
P.S. – I bought your cookbook for myself for Christmas and my daughter and I are loving all the recipes we’ve tried so far! :D 수구합니다! *^^*
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I’m happy to hear that you are enjoying my cookbook recipes. Thanks!
It looks like pork bone soup called gamjatang in Korean. Check out my gamjatang recipe here, please. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamjatang
Thank you! Yes, it does! I always think of 감자탕 like the giant bowls that serve 6 people so I wasn’t looking under that heading! 수고하고 좋은 하루 되세요! ^^
Is there a spicy way to make this soup?
I was wondering if anyone has tried making this in a slow cooker. I was curious to know how it turned out and, if it turned out well, how much water to use. I think I might start experimenting!
This looks delicious (as all your recipes do, of course!), can’t wait to try it! :) Thank you Maangchi!
Can I use pressure cooker to make the broth? Would that effect the taste? Thank you!
I’m so grateful for your recipes! I’m mixed French-Korean, now in the US, and my friends recommended your site to me. My Korean grandmother passed away almost a year ago, and the one-year anniversary of her passing is almost here. She was from Gwangju and a terrific cook (like all Korean moms are :) but never wrote down her recipes. I had really struggled with how to make 설렁탕 bone broth with that milky white color like she had done… until I found your recipe, and I’m so happy that you have a recipe for the hangover soup with napa too! I loved her so much, and when I make bone broth, and I see a bowl of that milky white broth in front of me like when I was a child – it brings back memories of her love & how it carries on, even now. Your step-by-step guides helped me lots.
You are so kind (and pretty!) and knowledgeable – watching your videos, I feel like I have an encouraging new friend, holding my hand through the process! I’ve just bought your book, too. I am wishing you all the best, you deserve it!
What a touching story it is! You were missing your grandmother’s bone soup and searched the recipe online and found my website! Now you can make this soup! The bone soup your grandmother made was very special to you because it was not only delicious but it contained her full love for you. By the way, I used to live in Gwangju, too!
The directions indicate fish sauce but there is none listed in the ingredients. How much to use?
in the video maangchi said to use 1 tbs fish sauce.
Thanks for pointing it out! I fixed it just now. And thank you Cutemom for answering quickly on behalf of me! You are so cute! : )
This turned out great! It has a miso-like flavour to it; very mild. I paired it with kimchi, soy chicken, spicy cucumber salad and tea.
You made a great meal! It sounds very delicious!
It looks so delicious and quite easy to make, I can’t wait to try this recipe! I’ll make it for my family this week, I hope they’ll like it.
Thank you Maangchi-ssi!
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