A simple, refreshing, nutty side dish I learned how to make from the Buddhist monks in Korea. A one-minute sautée brings it to life and makes all the other dishes on the table taste better!
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’m going to show you another easy, simple recipe that doesn’t require any special ingredients from a Korean grocery store or anything. Just potato, ham, and onion. It’s a stir fried potato and ham side dish called gamja-haem-bokkeum! How many times have I made this in my life? When my kids were in school […]
Hi, everybody! My new cookbook will go on sale next month. It’s hard to believe that it will finally be here, I’ve actually been working on it for four years, from beginning to end. It was a lot more work than I ever expected, but I’m so excited that you will finally be able to hold […]
Today’s recipe is a sweet, sour, and spicy mushroom dish with water dropwort, called Beoseot minari chomuchim. It’s a variation of a popular traditional Korean dish that’s prepared the same way but uses squid instead of mushrooms (called ojingeo minari chomuchim), and something I came up with in my hotel room in Sydney, Australia during my […]
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.
