Imagine garlic-flavored rich beef brisket stock filled with sweet, springy shrimp and chive mandu dumplings. If you’re a soup person, this is going to make your stomach very happy!
Today let’s make an easy, delicious, hearty and super-nutritious recipe for mung bean porridge called nokdu-juk (녹두죽)! The mild, smooth, and soft porridge is not only comforting but also nutty and filling. Korean cuisine has a lot of different kind of porridges (in Korean:죽 juk), and I showed you many of them already. Nokdu-juk is […]
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 […]
Today I’m going to show you a great way to eat cooked octopus: as tenderly cooked slices served with a nutty sesame dipping sauce. This is the traditional Korean style to eat octopus, called Muneo-sukhoe (문어숙회). When I lived in Korea, I ate octopus this way all the time. I remember one time my whole family went to visit my […]
Hello everybody, today I’m going to show you how to make kimchi with Asian chives (a.k.a garlic chives), which are buchu in Korean. It’s called buchu-kimchi, and it’s simple and fast to make but very delicious. It’s refreshing with a green onion-y, chive-y taste that’s lively and spicy. I like to eat this kimchi best when […]
I’m so excited to introduce today’s recipe to you! It’s gonggal-ppang, a cookie-like bread that’s puffed up like a crunchy, crusty, hollow balloon, with a coating of melted sweet syrup inside. This balloon bread was created by Chinese immigrants in Korea. I was told that the bread was originally called “air-bread” among Chinese but when it came […]
Today’s recipe is for Paeju-doenjang-jjigae (패주된장찌개), fermented bean paste stew made with scallops. Fermented bean paste stew (doenjang-jjigae: 된장찌개) is savory, earthy, full of umami and irresistible, and a favorite among Koreans. There are many different kinds of doenjang-jjigae, made in different ways and using different ingredients, and in my previous doenjang jjigae recipe, I used large dried […]
I developed this recipe after visiting Korea in the middle of their honey butter flavor craze. It’s crispy crunchy Korean fried chicken with a garlic, honey, and butter flavor. It’s hard to spot eating it once you start!
Today I’m going to show you how to cut up a whole chicken into parts that you can use in many recipes. I know buying a chicken in packaged, precut pieces is convenient and easy, but buying a whole chicken and then cutting it up yourself has a lot of advantages. First, it’s cheaper! Second, […]
