Today I’d like to introduce you to a delicious, braised fish dish, made with a fish called galchi in Korean. It has a lot of names in English like hartail. cutlassfish, and ribbonfish, but I like beltfish, becaue it’s a very long, thin, silvery fish, and it looks like a shiny belt. Tender, delicate, and […]
Today I’m introducing you to another Korean Chinese dish called yuringi (pronounced yu-rin-gi). It’s fried chicken with peppers and a light sweet sour sauce. A piece of crunchy chicken soaked in sweet, sour, salty sauce tastes so crispy and juicy! The chopped spicy fresh pepper served with this dish adds delightful flavor for spicy food […]
When it starts to get colder like it is these days, I make bone broth for me and my family, every year. Koreans consider bone broth to be very nutritious and rejuvenating, which is why I like to fortify my family’s bodies for the wintertime. We believe that it makes you strong, so we bring […]
Today I’m going to show you a fun way to cook rice: in a hollowed-out eggshell! It’s called gyeran-kkeopjilbap in Korean. My grandmother used to cook rice in a cauldron over a fire. While the rice was simmering my grandmother would grill fish over the embers or just tuck a potato or sweet potato in […]
Today I want to introduce you to a popular dish in Korea vegetarian restaurants: sweet, sour, and crunchy mushrooms, called beoseot-tangsu. It’s very similar to the sweet and sour pork version, tangsuyuk, but it uses shiitake mushrooms instead of meat. You can use any mushrooms but we usually use dried shiitake mushrooms in this recipe […]
Today I’m showing you how to make a traditional Korean pressed cookie called dasik. Dasik is made with all-natural ingredients like grains, beans, sesame seeds, chestnuts, pine pollen, and many other things. The ingredients are finely ground, mixed with honey, and pressed in a wooden mold into small cookies. The inside of the mold is […]
Today’s recipe is an easy, one bowl meal that’s spicy, a little sweet, and savory: Jeyuk-deopbap, spicy pork and vegetables over rice (or spicy pork rice bowl)! I love the soft pork, slightly crispy vegetables, and spicy, garlicky aroma. A spoonful of jeyuk-deopbap just melts in my mouth, so delicious! Pork dishes in Korean cuisine […]
Today I have a new kimchi for you, made with green onions! It’s called Pa-kimchi (파김치) in Korean or you can call it green onion kimchi! Pa-kimchi is very aromatic, strong, spicy, crispy and much easier to make than traditional Korean baechu kimchi (napa cabbage kimchi). You make it with the whole green onion, both […]
Today I’m going to show you a very simple, delicious, and easy vegan recipe, using minari, a vegetable that’s very common in Korean cuisine. It’s also known as “water dropwort” in English. It’s used as a main ingredient in some dishes, and is added to others to impart its unique, herby flavor. I love to […]
The weather is getting warmer so I want to introduce you to a great beef dish for summertime: pan-cooked beef salad (Sogogi chapssal-gui: 소고기 찹쌀구이). It’s good for summer because you don’t serve it hot, it’s best at room temperature or cold. This is usually a pretty fancy dish you serve to guests, but I […]
These days when you go to a grocery store in New York City beautiful asparagus is everywhere because it’s in peak season, and usually on sale, too! We have to take advantage of this, right? I went to my local Whole Foods and I chose good-looking asparagus with thin and long stems, to make this […]
Today’s recipe is a green onion (scallion) pancake with seafood. You may remember I made a green onion pancake (pajeon) video a long time ago which used foraged green onions. But when making pajeon, most Koreans use this kind of green onion, and the most popular kind of pajeon is made with seafood. The pan […]
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.
