Easy Korean Recipes
Easy spicy chicken noodles What kind of taste can you imagine from this picture? I can imagine a slightly salty and savory noodle taste, but if you do so, you are wrong too. 🙂 It is not a red dish like other spicy Korean food, but it was spicy. It was totally unexpected. I would …
My husband brought some interesting looking rice cakes from school today. He said one of his colleagues gave them to him. He tends to bring food home from school when he isn’t sure about it, so I am basically a his poison tester. 🙂 I haven’t seen these kind of rice cake before so I …
Easy Tofu Kimchi (Dubu Kimchi) recipe. Ready in 15 mins! Tofu Kimchi (Dubu Kimchi, 두부김치) is a delicious and versatile Korean side dish, primarily made with tofu and kimchi. Though it doesn’t mean that it’s kimchi made with tofu. (That sounds interesting, though!) Tofu Kimchi is essentially a stir fried kimchi served with boiled tofu. …
Easy and exquisite Korean rice bowl recipe – Vegetables and Flying Fish Roe Rice (Al Bap). Al bap (알밥) is a kind of trendy meal that got popular in recent years in Korea. Al (알, eggs) here refers the flying fish roe. It’s a popular ingredient when making sushi as well. (In Japanese term, it’s called …
Cooking Korean frozen dumplings! One thing I don’t like about winter is its weather. It is just too cold, so I am not as motivated as other seasons to cook any meals. I just want to stay in my room and snuggle up. However, the fact that we have to eat to survive is what …
There are a few different varieties of Korean fish sauce. Korean anchovy sauce (Myulch Aekjeot, 멸치액젓), Sand lance sauce (Kkanari Aekjeot, 까나리 액젓) and salted fermented shrimp sauce (Saeujeot, 새우젓). Korean fish sauce is typically used in Kimchi making to accelerate the fermentation process. On some occasions, it is also used in Korean side dishes and …
Addictively spicy and delicious Korean Shin Noodles! Yesterday I had a recipe request from Mika about instant noodles. She was wondering what kind of ingredients I add when I make instant noodles. I usually don’t add much vegetables or meat, because I don’t want to bother with heavy preparation. However, I had some mung bean …
We have a regular gathering with some other foreigners living in this area every second Wednesday. We have dinner in one person’s house and we take turns. The host prepares a main meal and everyone else brings their duty dish. Anyhow, Mel (most of the time dessert duty person) brought this cheese cake at the …
Dumpling pastry pizza is a great way to use up leftover dumpling pastry. It makes a great snack or light meal! I found that some Koreans make simple pizzas with dumpling pastry (만두피) at home. It is very quick to make as long as you can get the dumpling pastry easily. You can buy some at …