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Stews
Jjigae is our comfort food
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Long noodles = long life!
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Soups
Guk at every meal
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Sundubu-jjigae
Soft tofu stew
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The Korean way to grill
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Fried chicken
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Appetizers
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Fermented
Taste of centuries
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Staple ingredients
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Seafood
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Pork
Some new dishes to try
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Chicken
Our most delicious
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Porridges
Good for your health!
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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
Desserts
Special sweet stuff
Main dishes
Consider these mains
BBQ
The Korean way to grill
Fried chicken
Double-deliciousness
One bowl meals
Nutritious, & convenient
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
We 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
Seasonal, local, foraged
Snacks
Quick dishes on the run
Porridges
Good for your health!
Cold dishes
Icy, cold, or just chilled
Drinks
Fruits, grains, & herbs
Not Korean
Fusion and western food
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My most popular Korean recipes
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Kimchi
Traditional-style spicy fermented whole-leaf cabbage kimchi
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Easy Kimchi
A traditional, simpler, & faster way to make kimchi
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Japchae
Stir fried noodles with vegetables
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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
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Jan 10th
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Nov 21st
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Dear Maangchi, thank for the excellent recipes.Could you please tell me: what can I use instead of Mugwort? I am having great difficulty finding Mugwort in Tokyo. I have searched all the Korean grocery stores in Tokyo. And i have also checked online.
Why don’t you use spinach?
Maangchi, these are such surprising recipes for me! We have so much mugwort in our backyard, and we have tried for years to get rid of it. It’s a terrible weed for us. I wish I had many Korean neighbors who would like to pick and eat it in the spring. That would be a great help for us. Mugwort is very aggressive and very difficult to control. I will try your recipes and maybe that will make me appreciate this plant, which I haven’t liked at all until now. If you ever want to visit Pennsylvania at this time of year, I promise to give you as much mugwort as you could possibly want. Organically grown too!
omg, I wish I would live near your house. I will clean your unwanted mugwort almost everyday. : )
“We have tried for years to get rid of it.” I feel sorry for your mugwort! Did you know that mugwort also has medicinal uses? It’s also delicious and in the early spring is so tender than you can make soup, rice cake, or even pancakes with it.
It gets tougher as it grows, but it can still be used. Cut and dry them, and hang them on the wall or put them in the living room in a basket. They will act as a natural air freshener. And whenever you take a bath, add some dried mugwort to the hot water in the tub. You will feel very refreshed.
Yesterday I went to farmer’s market in New York and saw they were selling mugwort! Americans seem to know these precious herbs. They were selling it for $6 a pound! : )
Oh, Maangchi, you don’t need to feel sorry for our mugwort! It is definitely winning every battle. It grows so quickly that we cannot keep it out of the areas where we try to grow other vegetables.
I did know of mugwort as a medicinal herb. I understood that it was not good for pregnant women, but otherwise good for women’s health. It does have a very nice smell. My husband has always disliked this plant too, but now he says he is willing to try the rice cake if I prepare it for him. I will let you know if I succeed.
Maangchi, we are not so very far from NYC. I would be happy to bring you some mugwort in June. We are coming to the city just for the day on the 10th. There is a bus that leaves from right near our house and goes to Port Authority in less than 2 hours. You could also take the bus to visit us, see our large garden, and take home all the mugwort you could ever want!
For those of you who wants to plant mugwort, beware! After a lot of digging in the back yard because of renovation of my house, some dormant seeds of mugwort came up and grew. I did not know what they were. They were pretty, looking like chrysanthemum leaves. I let it grow, since I wanted to see the flowers. Wrong move! Pretty soon the whole back yard was full with mugworts, wall to wall. I used all kinds of ways to kill them, even all kinds of herbicides, including Round-up (5x) that a neighbor, who was working at a nursery then, prayed them for me. Then the family moved, the mugworts still in my back yard. Finally I looked in the Internet, and found Lontrel, that unfortunately a non professional cannot buy. The smallest size was a quart bottle. It cost $120.00 at that time. I bought it through my rose club that I belong to. I wore goggles, protective herbicide clothing that covered me from head to toes, mask for my breathing, and armed with a prayer I carefully sprayed the leaves very early in the morning, when it was not windy, careful not to spray the soil, since I did not want to contaminate my soil. It worked. The next year the mugwort did not come up, their roots were black. Mugwort has very long soft roots. If you break them, more plants grow. So beware. They are all over the place, I went to China last year, I saw them there too. I did not know I could have harvested them and eat them!–Missed my chance, but no, thank you, I am NOT growing them again. Sometimes a few come up again, and I immediately pull them, including the roots.
Thank you for sharing your funny story! It reminds me of the movie The Terminator. : )
Yes, ssuk is very strong… My reader Ina is growing ssuk in her garden. I hope she is ok with her ssuk.
Unni,This soup looks so delicious can’t wait to try it.I just picked some mug wort this morning on the side walk down the street from my house.. ;-))
; ) delicious soup! I kept saying “delicious, delicious, good flavor” while I was eating the soup.
Oh Maangchi… In New Zealand our seasons are opposite to yours. I’m always sad to wait 6 months to try the seasonal recipes.
Question: How is mungwort used in traditional Korean medicine? What are the traditional health benefits?
Cheers,
Andrew
Andrew,
Check these out.
https://www.maangchi.com/ingredients/mugwort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_vulgaris
Ah! Cheers Maangchi,
Any entertaining stories along these lines? Hahaha.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and traditions with the world. You’re an inspiration.
Till next time.
“in another region, it is proposed to have hallucinogenic properties, leading to some bonneted grandmothers passing out from direct skin contact”
Grrrrr. HTML fail.
Would substituting chicken be just as delicious? My daughter has a shellfish allergy (not to fish though) and loves when I make korean soups for her.
Now I want to know if this plant grows in the wild here in Holland or not ! I love collecting wild plants, fruits and nuts. It’s natural, fun to do and it’s free !
Got a seed pack of Mugwort so I’m going to plant it this spring, by summer maybe I’ll have enough of the plant to try this wonderful looking recipe. :)
I didn’t know you could buy mugwort seeds!
I didn’t know either but the Internet is one of my “virtual” best friends so found the seed at Kitazawa Seed Co., it’s labeled “Japanese Mugwort” known as Yomogi, kui ho. Took my chances in growing Asian vegetables this season from seed packs. Wish me luck. :)
I use Kitazawa seeds. They are very good quality.
I have had excellent luck with kkaennip seeds.
Hi Maangchi. I have a comment/question from my mother. She is asking why you don’t use the heads of the dried anchovies? She said that there is so much flavour in the head and cheeks that you should be using that as well. Any comments?
Jimin
I think she does use the heads– you can see them in the video here when she’s making stock. She just removes the guts.
You are so right. It was an oversight on our part. Thank you.
The soup looks so satisfying! I will have to try it with store-bought mugwort until I get comfortable picking my own. But I love that you got your mugwort and wild onions straight from mother nature! What a great way to celebrate spring.
Think about me when you eat this soup and say, “cheers to Maangchi and Spring!” lol
yum maangchi! thank you for sharing.
btw, did you know that you can get clams clean using cornmeal? i live in the pacific northwest and go clam digging a lot. we put about 1/2 c of cornmeal in water w/the clams and it helps flush out all the sand and grit from the shells.
i hope this helps. happy cooking!
Thank you for the tip! I should try it.
WOW looks very tasty might try that !!