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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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Hi Maangchi,
I found your site when I was looking for a kimchi recipe. Thanks to you, I now make kimchi on a regular basis. Its great! Now, I’m looking forward to trying your other recipes. But I don’t know where to start! Bibimbap, jjajangmyun, jobchae? It all looks so good. This oxbone soup looks absolutely delicious!
I just want to ask, does it necessarily have to be the leg bone? Because my local market would most likely only have the spine (which we also use to make soup, but not the milky kind).
Thank you for your great recipes! Love them. Love food. Love you!
“I now make kimchi on a regular basis” Great news! You make your own homemade delicious kimchi.
Yes, you can use spine bones to make bone soup. Good luck with your Korean cooking!
I tried to make this and it looked good and milky when I was cooking it, but after I put it in the fridge overnight, the next day the whole bowl of soup was gelatinized! When you microwave it, it turns back into soup, but it’s not milky anymore.
yes, that’s right!
Yay! I was looking for a recipe for seolleongtang a few weeks ago and was so disappointed that I couldn’t find one here and now here it is! Can’t wait to try it. I was visiting Pusan around this time last year and had this soup for the very first time. It was so soothing and warm. Now that it is getting cold here in California, it makes me grave it even more. But when I had it there it was with noodles and rice. Do you know what kind of noodles I should use for that? Thanks!
ah you could use noodles, too.
The photo of the noodles:
https://www.maangchi.com/ingredients/somyeon
How to cook the noodles is posted here:
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kongguksu
I’m wildly excited to see this recipe!
I’ve tried to make it 3 times (before seeing your site) and each time it was a disaster. My mom would try to explain what to do on the phone and then I’d find myself regretting that I didn’t cook in the kitchen with her more when I was little.
Anyways, I’m definitely making this. Am picking up the ingredients on my way home from work tomorrow. I’m so excited about it that I hope I can sleep tonight. Yeeeeeee-ay!!!!!
“I’m so excited about it that I hope I can sleep tonight. Yeeeeeee-ay!!!!!” wow, you are like me! Cheers! btw how did it turn out?
My husband and I got into a heated argument because he said that if I scaled down the recipe to just “1 bowl” I would only need 1/2 lbs of beef bone and still be able to make a quality ox bone soup. I refused, saying you still need a certain amount of *minimum* beef bones to create enough milky broth. Who is correct, maangchi? I am right?
haha, I think you still can make white milky broth with a small piece of bone, too. : ) Keep boiling boiling until you get white milky soup.
Maangchi thank you for posting this recipe!! This is one of my new favorite Korean foods.
I tried making it during the long weekend (although could only find oxtail bone and beef feet)
Not perfect (couldn’t get the broth totally white and milky) but it was still very tasty!
http://kitchendreamer.blogspot.com/2010/11/seollangtang-korean-oxbone-soup.html
awesome, I twitted about your blog! It looks great! Don’t worry about getting it totally white. The first time you boil it, it’s not going to be milky because the blood inside the bones is getting boiled out, but the second and the third time will be more and more milky.
Hi Maangchi,
Thank you for posting this recipe.
This is one of my favorite Korean soup and always wanted to learn how to make it.
I thought this soup is very diffcult to cook, but after watching your video, I think I have the confidence to make it for my husband to try.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Carolyn
Maangchi,
My broth wasn’t milky at all.
Do you know what I could have done wrong?
Thank you
Maangchi, I just realized that I used ox-tail instead of ox-bone. I guess it was the reason why my broth wasn’t milky.
Anyway, it still taste very good. My whole family loves it. Thank you for the recipe Maangchi. =D
Don’t worry about getting it totally white. The first time you boil it, it’s not going to be milky because the blood inside the bones is getting boiled out, but the second and the third time will be more and more milky.
Hi Maangchi – love your website and all the wonderful recipes!! Is this the same as ox tail soup? Is there a difference whether I use ox tail or ox leg bone? Thanks!!
Use ox leg bones for this recipe.
i was just about to ask u ths recipe…i thnk i saw it once in korean drama ‘shining inheritance’…since then i was wondering about the soup. hehe. i’l definitely try this recipe ;D
tq.
awesome! Let me know how your seolleongtang (ox bone soup turns out.
I am on holidays in the gold coast and just walked out a restaurant where I had that dish, eh so full I put rice in mine and when I got back from the hotel I was like I wonder if Maangchi has this on her site and bingo you do :-) Ill be making this when I get back home. And your right I only had ox bone in mine and it was not enough extra meet would have been good :-) hope your well, thanks for having such a great site! I love it.
Bingo! lol
OMG Solungtang or (seollentang, seolleong-tang, seollongtang)
Thank You, Thank You!!
I can’t wait to try your recipe!!
10 pounds of bones that’s what you will need to feed all your family members. Good luck with making delicious seolleongtang!
Thank you Maangchi. Just watch this video make me salivate already. Man, it just sooo…. good.
My mouth waters when I watch my own eating scene. lol
I love this soup!
nice! now you can make it!
You are right it is very easy to make this soup. But it taste so good!
Your version looks so delicious, too! (ox tail soup)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAjcqrxYBzM