You can get easily find these frozen oysters in the freezer section of a Korean grocery store. These shucked frozen oysters can be eaten raw because they were flash frozen. If I use them in my kimchi, I don’t even need to thaw them out. I just rinse and drain them, and then chop them and add […]
Yaksik is a kind of Korean rice cake made with glutinous rice, honey, nuts, and dried fruits. It’s a sweet, delicious treat that’s packed full of flavor and healthy ingredients. Even the name is healthy – in Korean, yak means “medicine,” and sik means “food.” Koreans have long believed that honey is a medicine that’s […]
Hi, everybody! My new cookbook will go on sale next month. It’s hard to believe that it will finally be here, I’ve actually been working on it for four years, from beginning to end. It was a lot more work than I ever expected, but I’m so excited that you will finally be able to hold […]
Once these little quail egg potatoes are braised in soy sauce and rice syrup, something magical happens and they become irresistible. Crunchy, chewy, moist and fluffy, I just can’t stop eating them.
What do Koreans eat everyday? What do their breakfast, lunch, and dinner table settings look like? You may have these kinds of questions now, because you’ve been cooking Korean food for a while and you can make delicious kimchi on a regular basis, so you want to know how this all fits together. My upcoming cookbook has […]
This fiery hot, cheesy Korean chicken is crazy easy to make and irresistibly delicious to anyone who tries it, as long as they can handle spicy food. My recipe was featured in the New York Times and started a worldwide buldak trend that is still going on.
This is my version of Korean gyeran-jangjorim, which is traditionally a recipe where hardboiled eggs are braised in soy sauce. Braising involves cooking in soy sauce over low heat for a long time, but I prefer not to braise at all, and just make a delicious soy broth and pour it over the eggs before […]
Hi everybody! I can’t wait to share this exciting story with you! My reader Brian reached out to me on Facebook a while ago and told me how he used some of my recipes at his wedding reception. Rather than hire a caterer they had a big Korean BBQ feast where every table grilled their own […]
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.
