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Korean Food and Recipes

Zucchini BuChim

애호박 부침, AeHoBak BuChim

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This is a simple version of Korean zucchini fritters. Typically, we cover sliced zucchini pieces with flour, and then dip them into an egg mixture before frying them. However, today I will just dip the zucchini into a flour batter. You can eat these delicious zucchini fritters plain, but slightly dipping them into a soy sauce mixture makes them tasty even better. It is good for a lunch box, party appetizer, or as a side dish for normal meals. If you are a vegan, you can skip the egg and add a little bit more water to the batter. 😀

Yield: 3 Dozen Pieces

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Korean Style Fruit Salad

과일 샐러드, GwaIl Salad

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This is an old fashioned food. It is made from different kinds of fruit, hard-boiled quail eggs, crabsticks, and peanuts, all mixed with mayonnaise. Does it sound weird or interesting to you? =P I guess, when mayonnaise was introduced in Korea, this salad was one of the original uses for it. In Korea, when somebody moves to a new house, they invite family or friends to have a meal together. I remember going to those kinds of parties with my parents many times. Almost every party had this salad. My mom also made it whenever we had a party at our house. As a kid, it was one of my favorite menu items. The fun part of eating this salad was digging to find the best parts: the crab and the eggs. Oops, that does not sound like good table manners, but my excuse is that I was a kid. ㅋㅋㅋ Nowadays, there are many different kinds of fancy salad dressings from the Western world in Korea, so this old fashioned fruit salad is not as common as it was before. However, many people including me still miss this old fashioned salad every now and then. The sweetness from mixed fruits, slight saltiness from the crab sticks, nuttiness from the peanuts, and the egg flavor mix together with mayonnaise equals yummy~~~ Anyway, I was very excited to make this dish and share the recipe with you, because it is delicious and it can be a unique dish to try. I ate and ate after I made it. It was still as delicious as I remembered. @.@ Hehe, I hope you like it too. 😉

Yield: 1½ Quarts

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Korean Fish Sausage

소세지, SoSeJi

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This is a special type of Korean fish sausage. It’s made mainly with pollack and wheat. I got “DongWon” brand this time, and it tasted pretty good.

This is what it looks like inside. 😀

  • Use:
    Side-dish, Salad

  • Storage:
    Keep in the refrigerator.

  • Types:
    Fish Flavor, Fish with vegetables

Fish Sausage BuChim

소세지 부침, SoSeJi BuChim

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Korean fish-sausage jeon (소세지 부침) is one of the most popular lunch box side dishes from the good old days. When sausage was introduced to Koreans for the first time, it was big hit. Since then, Koreans started to make their own fish sausage like this. Later, we started eating ham, and ham eventually replaced fish sausage in different kinds of Korean food such as kimbap, salad, jeon, etc. Slowly this fish sausage became less popular and is an old fashioned food now. Sometimes I miss this dish. It brings back my school day memories, and it still tastes good to me.

Yield: 1½ Dozen Pieces

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Dried Laver Gul

김 구이, Gim GuI

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Seasoned and roasted Dried Laver (김 구이=Gim GuI) is a very common dried seaweed side dish for both meals and lunch boxes in Korea. You can buy this type of side dish in a Korean or Asian store. However if you only have normal dried seaweed, you can use this recipe to season and roast it easily at home. Homemade roasted seaweed is not only cheaper, but tastier as well. This recipe uses the dried seaweed that is used for kimbap or sushi, but typically normal dried seaweed for gimgui is a little thinner than the dried seaweed for kimbap. This tastes great with fresh rice.

Yield: 30 Sheets

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The Cluck Cluck Eggplant Sandwich

가지 샌드위치, GaJi Sandwich

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Yesterday, my lovely sister-in-law cooked an eggplant sandwich for us. I’ve been asking her to do a cooking video for me and since she was going to cook we went ahead and made a video. As she mentioned at the beginning, she didn’t have a recipe but tried to make something delicious from her instinct and experience. 😉 It was so much fun to make a video together. Since the sandwich taste was very delicious, I am happy to share the recipe with you.

Yield: 6 Loaves

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Sticky Rice Cakes for TteokBokkI & TteokGuk

떡볶이떡 & 떡국떡, TteokBokkITteok & TteokGukTteok

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Today, I will show you how to make an ingredient for Korean cooking – sticky rice cakes. They are commonly used for tteokbokki, tteokggochi, and tteokguk. Koreans take their rice to a shop and let them make it. It is an interesting process, which is detailed in this awesome blog post by the Stumbling Engineer. Outside of Korea, many people cannot find these sticky rice cakes where they live, so they want to make tteokbokki and tteokguk at home. With this recipe, you can make sticky rice cakes at home and enjoy tteokbokki and tteokguk.

Yield: 2½ lb Rice Cakes

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Cheese Oven Spaghetti

치즈 오븐 스파게티, Cheese Oven Spaghetti

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In Korea, cheese oven spaghetti is popular in pizza or some other Western-style restaurants. Today, I will make my own version of cheese oven spaghetti. Spaghetti with melted mozzarella cheese, meat, and vegetables tastes great. 😀

Yield: 3 Servings

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Pickled Radish MuChim

단무지 무침, DanMuJi MuChim

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The Korean pickled radish side-dish DanMuJi MuChim is a simple daily side dish that you can make in just few minutes. DanMuJi is used in kimbap. It is a sweet and sour pickled radish. Since it already has a sweet, sour, and salty flavor, you don’t need many seasonings for this dish: just some spiciness from red pepper powder and the unique flavor of sesame oil. You can also eat the pickled radish without any other seasonings with jajangmyun, jjambbong, or kimbap.

Yield: 1½ Cups

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Silken Tofu JjiGae

순두부 찌개, SunDuBu JjiGae

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It was amazing to get so many requests for silken tofu soup, SunDuBu JjiGae (순두부 찌개). This proves that many people in the world like this soup. The broth is spicy and matches great with the silken tofu. With the same basic seasonings used in this soup, you can make a different variety such as beef or clam. You can also put both in as I did in this recipe. The kimchi is optional. I’m very happy with this recipe, so I hope you like this too. 😀

Yield: 2 Servings

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