Fermenting can’t get easier with this fish sauce based ferment of pickled peppers in soy sauce. It’s made with traditional Korean green peppers that are mild, sweet, juicy, and super crispy. The flavorful juice in the peppers squirts out with every bite, so be careful!
This radish salad is super-easy to make and is the perfect side dish to rice or noodles. Fresh, crispy, spicy, salty and savory, it looks beautiful and tastes fantastic!
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!
Sweet, sour, and spicy, this hoe-muchim is inspired by a restaurant in my seaside hometown of Yeosu. When you get some very fresh fish, this recipe should be high on your list to make!
Sujebi is a traditional Korean noodle soup where the noodles are thin, hand-torn pieces of dough added to a bubbling pot of savory broth. This soup is a long-time comforting favorite for many Koreans. It makes us feel cozy on rainy days!
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!
Yangnyeom-gejang, spicy raw crab, is a favorite of mine and a real delicacy. It’s sweet, soft, spicy, and has a jelly-like texture. You have to try it!
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’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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been getting a lot of great feedback from my last recipe, healthy vegetable rice bowl, because so many people are staying at home and cooking with their families these days. More and more people are interested in easy, nutritious, and delicious meals so I came up with this idea to make kimchi hand-torn noodle […]
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.
