Easy Korean Recipes
This sweet, tangy and spicy Korean dipping sauce (known as chogochujang) is a perfect Korean sauce to pair with seafood! Today, I want to talk about Sweet, Tangy and Spicy Korean Dipping Sauce aka Cho-Gochujang (초고추장) or ChoJang (초장). I get it if you thought this post was about “steamed prawns” rather than the “dipping …
Make some delicious Korean green onion salad! It’s a popular Korean BBQ side dish! If you like Korean BBQ, you probably have seen this Korean spicy green onion salad before. It is the most well-known Korean BBQ companion salad. Its Korean name is Pajeori (파절이), meaning “seasoned green onion”. I love having Pajeori with Korean …
spicy Korean cucumber salad (Oi Muchim) recipe. It’s a perfect side dish for spring and summer weather. It gives you a little zing in your tastebuds! Korean cucumber salad (Oi Muchim, 오이무침) is my spring & summer time favourite dish. The smell of cucumber is always light and refreshing and its spicy, slightly sweet and tangy flavour …
Easy, delicious and super addictive Korean style braised eggs! Today I want to share an easy and simple side dish recipe – Korean style braised eggs. What are Korean Style Braised Eggs Korean style braised eggs (Dalgyal Jorim, 달걀 조림 or Gyeran Jorim, 계란 조림) are a popular Korean side dish made with soy sauce based brine …
One of my favorite Korean banchan – pickled perilla leaves recipe! It’s so delicious and addictive! You will be hooked instantly! Today, I would like to share one of the classic Korean side dishes (banchan, 반찬), which is also one of my favorite side dishes. It’s Pickled Perilla Leaves (Kkaennip Jangajji, 깻잎 장아찌), also known …
How to make Korean style radish pickles using pink radish. It’s simple, easy and moreish! Korean Style Pink Radish Pickles (한국식 분홍무 절임) Do you like radish pickles? I love them! It’s such a gem dish. I particularly love pairing them with Samgyeopsal (Korean pork belly) BBQ meat and also with Bibim Naengmyeon (Korean spicy …
Simply delicious Korean style seasoned mung bean sprouts salad! Today’s recipe is another simple side dish (banchan) called Sukju Namul Muchim (숙주나물 무침, Korean style seasoned mung bean sprouts salad). It’s made in almost the same way with almost identical ingredients (except for the quantity) to the spinach side dish I posted recently. (This is …
Easy Korean spinach salad recipe! Today’s recipe is a very simple version of a Korean spinach salad dish (Sigeumchi Namul banchan 시금치 나물 반찬). It’s very easy and super quick to make. There are a couple of ways to make this spinach side dish, but the recipe I’m about to share here is mainly reliant …
Yubu kimbap (유부 김밥) is Korean style inari roll filled with seasoned deep fried bean curd and other crunchy vegetables. It’s savory, delicious and has a nice chewing texture. The one thing I miss about living in Korea is convenience. You can get most food delivered to you right at your door very easily without incurring …
Learn how to make Korean potato pancakes. It’s a perfect rainy day snack! It’s been a very hot sizzling summer season this year. I’ve been wishing for decent heavy rain, and my wish was granted late last week. But perhaps I should have specified how much rain and how long I wanted it for. It’s …
Korean garlic chive salad! ( Garlic Chives and Baked Garlic Salad served with Grilled Pork) Do you like garlic? I don’t like eating raw garlic but I love eating baked garlic. It is delicately flavoured and has a savory taste, what is more it doesn’t smell as bad as raw garlic. Some naturopaths seem to …
Learn how to make seasoned Korean acorn jelly! It’s a light, flavourful and healthy Korean side dish! When I was a child, I sometimes went hiking with my mom and we picked up some dropped acorns on the hills. We didn’t hike to the top of hills but on the way back the basket of my …
Korean lotus root side dish – lotus root braised in soy sauce. It’s salty, sweet and moreish! Yeongeun Jorim (연근조림) is one of my favourite side dishes, and my mom cooks this really well. There are a couple of various ways of cooking lotus and I like the one has a softish chewy texture and …
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. …
Korean enoki mushroom pancakes (Paeng-ee beoseot jeon, 팽이버섯전) are a perfect side dish for a mushroom lover! They are loaded with savoury flavour and crisp texture and are really easy to make! Our family loves mushrooms. Name any kinds! (Obviously, excluding the poisonous ones! Lol) I originally shared this enoki pancakes recipe back in 2006 …
Easy gochujang pancakes! Gochujang pancakes are called Jang-Tteok in Korean. The word “Jang” (장) means seasoning, like soy sauce (Ganjang, 간장), soybean paste (Doenjang, 된장), or chilli paste (Gochujang, 고추장). Therefore “Jang-Tteok” (장떡) means pancakes seasoned with some kind of sauce that I mentioned earlier. Its name can be varied depending on the type of …