Here’s a delicious, flavorful, juicy, crispy, spicy, small-batch kimchi you can make pretty much anywhere for 1 or 2 hungry kimchi-lovers. The ingredients are easy to find, too!
My Auntie in Yeosu taught me so many things about cooking and has been my role model for many years. She’s always been there for me and my family so when I visited Yeosu I wanted to make her a special meal using local seafood.
Thin, minty, and aromatic kkaennip (perilla leaves) are popular in Korean cooking. This jangtteok pancake is savory, earthy, a little spicy, minty, and crisp on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
Dwaeji-kimchi duruchigi (stir-fried pork with kimchi) is a spicy, savory, delicious dish that is easy to make and is great party food! Use well-fermented kimchi to give it a bit of sweet and sour. Yum!
Memil-guksu is a simple and refreshing summer recipe everybody loves. It’s cool soba noodles dunked in a bowl of ice-cold dipping sauce, with a bit of wasabi to wake you up. It’s one of my regular summertime dishes and just looking at this photo I want to have it again!
A simple, easy to make dish for when you are in a hurry but still want something that tastes a little homemade. Tteok-ramyeon is spicy instant ramyeon with kimchi, rice cake slices and an egg!
This Korean-inspired side dish stir-fries collard greens with Korean doenjang (fermented soybean paste) and dried anchovies. The result is savory, delicious, easy to make, and goes great with BBQ!
Families from many cultures around the world make and enjoy dumplings, and this recipe is Korea’s version. Every Korean family has their own dumpling (mandu) recipe, just like they have their own kimchi recipe, but this recipe for pork dumplings is kind of a general classic, which is why it was one of the first […]
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 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 […]
Today I will introduce you to a one pot meal! It’s a healthy and delicious rice bowl with lots of vegetables and mushrooms. When the warm rice is mixed with spicy gochujang and a sweet, savory, onion-y seasoning sauce, you won’t believe how wonderful it is! In the old days, white rice was very precious […]
Dakbokkeumtang (닭볶음탕) is very popular spicy chicken dish in Korea. It’s also called dakdoritang (닭도리탕). This video is a remake of an earlier one I made in 2011 in Amsterdam with my reader Sarah. It was during my Gapshida tour, and Sarah hosted a meetup in her house. Ever since then when I have dakbokkeumtang […]
Today I’m introducing you to my family’s all time favorite dish, haemuljeon, a Korean pancake made with a few different kinds of seafood. Growing up in a harbor city on the southern coast of South Korea, every meal table was abundant with seafood. The traditional open air market was very close to my house so […]
Buchu-japchae is Asian chives stir-fried with meat and vegetables. It’s usually served in Korean-Chinese restaurants with Kkotppang (Steamed flower-shaped buns). When you go to Korean-Chinese restaurants this delicious stirfry is the most popular dish after jjajangmyeon (noodles in black bean sauce), jjamppong (seafood and noodle soup), and tangsuyuk (Sweet and sour pork). A lot of […]
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.
