Maangchi Korean recipes pages

Korean-style shabu-shabu hot pot (샤브샤브)

This Korean version of Japanese shabu-shabu is fun to make and fun to eat. It’s the perfect warm, cozy dish for cooking, eating, talking, and drinking together with friends and family.

Dasik (Traditional Korean pressed cookies) 다식

Today I’m showing you how to make a traditional Korean pressed cookie called dasik. Dasik is made with all-natural ingredients like grains, beans, sesame seeds, chestnuts, pine pollen, and many other things. The ingredients are finely ground, mixed with honey, and pressed in a wooden mold into small cookies. The inside of the mold is […]

Sweetened rice with dried fruits and nuts (Yaksik)

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 […]

Soondubu jjigae (Spicy soft tofu stew)

Ponytail radish (Chonggakmu)

The radishes are not large, usually 2 to 4 inches long, and very firm and crispy. They are mostly used for chonggak kimchi. The Korean word chonggak (총각) means an unmarried young bachelor. In the old days, an unmarried man traditionally had a hairstyle that resembled the greens of this vegetable, which is how it […]