I made a Korean dosirak (lunchbox) for my father made up of many traditional sidedishes. Here’s a list of them all, plus recipes for each if you want to recreate what I made.
What’s a good food for the summer time?! You are looking for something fun and easy to eat? Something portable and bite-sized? It’s mandu time! : ) Mandu are Korean dumplings, and I’m very happy to share my chicken mandu recipe with you today. Mandu is usually made with pork or beef, or a mixture […]
Today I’m going to show you another easy, simple recipe that doesn’t require any special ingredients from a Korean grocery store or anything. Just potato, ham, and onion. It’s a stir fried potato and ham side dish called gamja-haem-bokkeum! How many times have I made this in my life? When my kids were in school […]
A kimchi pancake is one of the easiest and quickest things to make and is one of Koreans’ all time favorite dishes. It’s hot, spicy, crispy, a little sweet, sour, and a little salty. It is not only a great snack but also it goes well with rice as a side dish, and is great […]
Do you have nicely fermented kimchi in your refrigerator? Then this is going to be one of the easiest, simplest, and fastest recipes you will ever make! Stir-fry your kimchi for 5 minutes, then it will turn into very delicious side dish! A side dish for what? Yes, I mean rice, cooked rice. Spicy, salty, […]
Hello everybody! This is the last of my videos filmed during my trip to France. In my last video I showed how to clean and cook an octopus and serve it in the Korean style with a sesame oil dipping sauce. As I mentioned in that video, I have so many traditional Korean recipes using […]
Hello everybody! Let’s learn how to make jumeokbap today! Jumeok literally means ‘fist’ and bap means ‘cooked rice,’ so jumeokbap is the Korean word for any kind of dish that consists of hand-shaped rice balls, no matter the size, ingredients, or seasonings used. There are many kinds of jumokbap (just like there are many kinds of gimbap – seaweed […]
Which to get? Both are best sellers and either one is a good choice if you want to learn Korean home cooking. Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking has all the recipes for all the essential Korean pastes and sauces, but my second book Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking has more recipes, more photos, and more variety.
