Today, I will show you how to make stir-fried spicy squid using Sempio’s hot chili hyangshin sauce. With a few simple steps and ingredients, you can make a great meal that is popular in Korean restaurants. I already posted a recipe for the homemade version before. Using Sempio‘s premade sauce makes it very easy and convenient to make at home while still tasting delicious. So I wanted to share this recipe with you. If you cannot get the sauce, you can try my homemade recipe. We are hosting a contest for Sempio’s hot chili hyangshin sauce this month (October 2012). So if you want to try the sauce for free, please visit my Sempio Youtube Channel, AerisKitchen4Sempio, and enter the contest . 🙂

Yield: 2-3 Servings

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This is stir-fried spicy octopus dish is made using Sempio’s mokpo octopus sauce. Many Korean dishes, especially soups and stews, ask for many different kinds of seasoning ingredients. Because of that, those Korean foods are more difficult to make to get the right flavor; getting the right amount of each seasoning ingredient is the secret for making good dishes. When I feel lazy, or do not have enough time to cook, it is nice to have pre-made sauces on hand. I made this octopus dish and ate it with some of my Korean friends for lunch. They all enjoyed it a lot. If I did not tell them, they would not have known that I used a pre-made sauce. 😉 For extra flavor, I added a little bit of sugar, and it turned out very delicious.

Yield: 2-3 Servings

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Deep fried laver roll with cellophane noodles called GimMalI TwiGim (김말이 튀김) in Korean. It is a popular street food. The recipe I am going to share with you today is a Sempio version of it. This has extra ingredients such as sweet peppers and fried fish cakes for color and taste. It is delicious and fun to make. This recipe is courtesy of Sempio. Sempio’s English site has many Korean recipes using their products. If you are interested in them, please check it out.

Yield: 9 Fritters

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Have a quick and delicious meal with this pre-made Sempio dakgalbi sauce. I posted homemade dakgalbi before; this Sempio sauce tastes as good as my dakgalbi. The spicy and slightly sweet chicken, vegetables, and rice cakes taste very good. Amazon sells this sauce along with other pre-made Sempio sauce, so you can try them someday. 🙂 Of course, you can try my homemade dakgalbi recipe too.

Yield: 2-3 Servings

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Sempio bulgogi sauce is a product that I like to use for quick meals. Just marinating some meat with this sauce, and then frying it, makes for a delicious main dish. This sauce also can be used for other kinds of foods, limited only by your creativity; although today’s recipe is how make bulgogi. Enjoy the flavor as much as I did. 🙂

Yield: 2-3 Servings

Short Korean Lesson

• San (산) = Mountain
• Bada (바다) = Sea

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Sempio braised chicken is a very easy, shortcut version of Andong JjimDak. When I tried this product for the first time, I thought that the taste is almost the same as authentic homemade sauce. So, I am very happy to share this recipe with you. Andong is a name of a Korean city, and this special dish is a very famous food from that area. The braised chicken and vegetables with the sauce will make you fall in love with the flavor. I love, love, love this food. It is not too difficult to make from scratch, however, it is even easier to make if you have an already prepared sauce like the Sempio sauce that I used for this recipe. I know that there will be many people who can not buy this product where they live, so someday soon, I will post an Andong jjimdak recipe using homemade sauce.

Yield: 2-3 Servings

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