Hello everybody! I know some of you are growing perilla leaves (Kkaennip, 깻잎 in Korean) in your garden. I’ve been so interested in reading all your garden stories every year, and seeing your photos of your big green perilla leaves! I have a small patio in my apartment in New York City, and you guys […]
These days it’s hot summertime, but you still need to cook! Even on the hottest days you can always get some energy from your own homemade food. Today’s recipe is another simple and easy recipe, spicy pork stew or dwaejigogi-jjigae in Korean, a spicy, savory, juicy stew made with pork belly. Usually when I cook with […]
Today let’s learn about another Korean side dish that you can make so easily, using zucchini and shrimp. It’s sautéed zucchini and shrimp (Aehobak-saeu-bokkeum: 애호박새우볶음). Green, semi-translucent zucchini becomes a little savory when it’s cooked with shrimp, and then fermented shrimp sauce enhances the flavor even more. The colors are beautiful and the contrast stimulates our […]
Today’s recipe is something I call L.A. jangajji, a Korean style pickle popular in the Korean community in Los Angeles. I first tasted it years ago when I visited my mom in L.A. She said all her friends were making pickles that way in those days. Usually Korean jangajji only pickles one vegetable and is […]
Jokbal is rich and savory pig’s trotters braised in seasonings for hours until they totally absorb the flavors and are soft, shiny, and glazed, with the meat falling off the bone. This recipe took me years to perfect and it can’t get any better.
Today’s recipe is vegetable and fruit water kimchi called nabak-kimchi in Korean. It’s fruits and vegetables fermented in a spicy rose-colored brine: savory, refreshing, tangy, cold and delicious with a little bit of heat. Koreans serve this kimchi as a side dish to rice, but also rice cake, porridge, and steamed sweet potatoes. It’s a […]
Gang-doenjang (강된장) is a reduced and thickened fermented soybean paste stew, usually served as a dipping sauce for Korean lettuce wraps (ssam:쌈). It’s earthy, savory, and hearty, and full of fresh chopped vegetables and a bit of meat and/or seafood. The best way to eat it is with some freshly-made multigrain rice and wrapped in fresh, […]
Are you interested in cooking something light, healthy, gorgeous and delicious? Then this is the recipe I recommend! It will be a perfect for brunch on a weekend. It’s bean porridge, called kongjuk (콩죽) in Korean. Porridge (juk) is loved by Koreans for its soft texture, lightness, nutrition, and its ease of digestion. Today’s recipe […]
Jjolymyeon is all about the noodles – chewy, elastic, soft, wheat noodles. They are thicker and heavier than other Korean noodles, mixed with spicy sauce and soybean sprouts, they are refreshing and unforgettable!
Today’s recipe is for braised lotus roots (yeon-geun-jorim: 연근조림), something that my readers and viewers have been requesting for years! The roots taste somewhere between a potato and a radish, and braising them (cooking at low heat in sauce) like this makes for a sweet, salty, and chewy side dish. It’s for special occasions and not something […]
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.
