Today I’m going to show you how to make makgeolli, a traditional Korean alcoholic beverage made by combining rice, yeast, and water with a starter culture called nuruk. It’s milky-white, fizzy and refreshing. It’s also called “nongju” which means “farmer liquor” because it’s made with a lot of rice, it’s full of carbohydrates and was […]
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 […]
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.
