Easy Korean Recipes
I got a question from one of my readers. She was wondering if I have any tips on how to pick a fresh white radish (Mu,무). Let’s see how I pick it. I go to the white radish section (at a Korean grocery store) and stare around to see if there is a cute looking radish. …
Korean sweet pancake made easy. How to make Korean sweet pancake (hotteok) using pre-mix. An easy to follow instruction and helpful tips! Have you seen these pancakes before? They are called Hotteok / Hodduk /Hoddeok (호떡), and you can easily spot them on the street, especially in winter in Korea. Hotteok used to be my …
Spicy Korean seafood hot pot! It’s loaded with prawns, mussels and vegetables. Delicious and very refreshing! This spicy seafood hot pot (haemul jeongol, 해물전골) is something you might like on a cold night. The soup was so flavorful and moreish, you can not dislike it if you love Korean food! When I had the first spoonful of …
On my birthday, I got this weird present. They weren’t wrapped with pretty pink ribbon nor beautifully packed with wrapping paper, but since I got them on my birthday, I consider that they were my birthday present. The present I got were eggs baked on elvan stone. Have you ever had eggs baked on elvan …
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 …
Are you looking into buying a table top BBQ grill plate so that you can enjoy Korean BBQ at home? Then read on! While it’s not exhaustive, the below points highlight a few basic things you should consider when choosing a Korean BBQ grill plate. I asked my mom who owned a Korean restaurant for …
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 …
Healthy and soothing Korean ginger tea (Saenggang cha) recipe! A few days ago, my husband was coughing a lot and he said he had a sore throat and mucus. I am not a doctor, but he thinks I can fix him. 🙂 He basically doesn’t trust modern medicine and loves oriental treats so much. So …
How to Make Flour Tortillas from Scratch Tortillas are quite expensive in Korea. Since I speak Korean, I can easily order tortillas from the internet. But still, it seems quite expensive to pay about 4 dollars (US) to get 12 sheets of tortillas, then pay the delivery cost which is another 4 dollars. So I researched a …
Learn how to make easy Korean style oyster pancakes! Ready in 20 minutes. One thing I miss about Korea is the abundance of cheap seafood. Oysters definitely belong into this category. Back in the days when I was living in Korea (in 2006), I was able to get 400g of oysters (which is equivalent to …
Seafood Jajangmyeon (Korean black bean noodles with seafood) is another way to enjoy popular Korean black bean noodles. It’s loaded with delicious and savory seafood! There are a few different types of Jajangmyeon (Korean black bean noodles, 자장면) based on the ingredients used or the way it’s served. This seafood Jajangmyeon is one of the varieties available at …
I remember buying some rolls of Kimbab couple of years ago. There was a shop called “Kimbap Nara” (김밥나라) and they sold Kimbap for 1000 won (About US $1 that time). It was so sensational because it was so cheap. Kimbap used to be 2000 won for the cheapest one in those days. So everyone …