Aeri's Kitchen

Korean Food and Recipes

Tuna and Vegetable Juk

참치 야채죽, ChamChi YaChaeJuk

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Happy New Year! 🙂 Thanks for your support in 2016. I hope that I can post delicious recipes more often this year. As a start, I picked a simple, healthy, and delicious recipe. When we don’t have much of an appetite, or feel sick, porridge can be a good solution. Canned tuna makes for a very tasty porridge with various vegetables. I have few tips for making porridge successfully, so don’t miss them. 🙂 Try this tasty recipe someday. If you have any requests for Korean food that you want to learn how to make, please feel free to leave a comment. 🙂

Yield: 2 Servings

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Raisin Filled Cookies

건포도 쿠키, GeonPoDo Cookie

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Hi everyone! How have you been? Wow, can you believe that it’s almost the end of 2016 already? I often say the time flies, but this past year was a crazy busy year for my family. Bryson is enjoying his 1st grade life. Logan gets extra love from mom when dad and Bryson are not at home. My husband just finished his Master’s degree. There are so many things to be thankful about. I wonder how you are doing too. I hope you can share your story for the year briefly with us too.

Today, I will share one of my husband’s favorite cookies recipes that I learned from my mother-in-law. I heard my husband talk about raisin filled cookies many times before. He told me how much he likes them. It was a holiday food that his grandmother made many years ago, and nobody makes them now because they are difficult to bake. So, it was on my list of foods to make someday for him someday, which I finally got around to a few weeks ago. I can see why he said they are precious cookies after I tried to bake them myself. lol It is time-consuming and the process is a little more complex than normal cookies. However, the cookies are so unique and delicious, I wouldn’t mind making them for special occasions. hehe I’m not a sweet tooth, and it is not often that I find a dessert that I like, but when I took a bite from this cookie, I just loved it. My first bite was the cookie part with a little bit of the sweet syrup. It was like eating like a normal cookie, but then my next bite was a piece with softened raisins with more syrup. Wow, it was not like eating plain raisins. The texture and flavor of the raisin are changed after they cook in the sugar syrup. I want you to try them for yourself someday. 🙂

I know there are many out there that visit my blog and use my recipes. Thank you very much. I always love to communicate with you through comments, so please leave a comment before you leave. 😉 Stay warm and happy.

Yield: 2½ Dozens

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Seafood Rice Jeon

해물 밥전, HaeMul BapJeon

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Sometimes my viewers ask what kind of food I feed to my boys. Some moms tell me that they have difficulty getting their children to eat because they are picky eaters. I can understand how the moms feel. Moms want to make sure that kids eat well and grow up healthy. Recently, I met a mom with a son and her son only eats to eat rice and meat, but no vegetables. She asked me for advice or ideas. I wanted to come up with a good way to feed kids vegetables, and this is what I got: Seafood Rice Jeon. It is called “해물 밥전 (HaeMul BapJeon)” in Korean. Haemul means seafood and bap means cooked rice and jean is a Korean pancake. Instead of using flour, this recipe uses cooked rice for the batter. The jeon has various vegetables and seafood for great flavor. So in this simple food, you can get most of the nutrients that you need for your meal. Isn’t that cool? Also, because it doesn’t have flour, this can be an exciting recipe for people who can’t eat gluten. It is very delicious and easy to make. I’m happy to share this recipe with you today. Please try it someday. 🙂

Yield: 4 Pieces (8 Inch)

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Choco ChalTteok Pie

초코 찰떡 파이, ChoCo ChalTteok Pie

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There are different kinds of sticky rice cakes in Korean cuisine. One of them is a soft and chewy rice cake made with sweet rice flour and a sweet red bean paste filling. It is called ChapSsalTteok (A.K.A. ChalTteok or Mochi in Japanese). Inspired by that one, a Korean snack company started to make a chocolate covered chapssaltteok, which ended up being a big hit. Then, different companies came up with different ideas such as chocolate filling, peanut butter filling, etc. I loved the chocolate filling ones called choco chaltteok pie. So I decided to make it at home and made this delicious recipe for you. 😉 The sweet milk chocolate inside and out, along with the sweet chewy rice cakes, will make your mouth very happy. Try it someday.

Yield: 8 Pieces

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Chicken GomTang

닭 곰탕, Dak GomTang

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There is a very popular beef soup dish called “GomTang” in Korean cuisine. The name means that beef and bones are boiled for a long time to get a rich flavor for the broth. So, some people have started to make this kind of soup using chicken instead of beef and called it dak gomtang. Homemade chicken broth that is made with Korean flavors and ingredients such as green onion and garlic, along with cooked Korean radish, makes for a warm and delicious soup for cold days. The pretty color combination of the garnishes make this soup even more appetizing and gives it extra flavor. This can be good for baby food if you chop and mash the ingredients into little pieces. Try it someday.

Yield: 3 Servings

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Sea Mustard Jeon

미역전, MiYeokJeon

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When you start cooking foreign cuisine, such as Korean food, you probably experience unfamiliar ingredients. Every now and then, I get this kind of a comment, “Aeri, I have ‘xyz’ ingredient to make a certain Korean dish. But, I still have a lot of it leftover. What else I can make with ‘xyz’?” So here we are. Today, I have this delicious idea about how to use your extra “dried sea mustard.” Maybe you bought it to make Korean birthday soup (Miyeokguk). I will make jeon with it. This dish is even unique for some Koreans, but it is so easy to make and it is tasty. So, I want to spread this recipe as much as I can. 🙂

Yield: 15 Pieces

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Hot Dog Ppang

소세지 빵, SoSeJi Ppang

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When you think of baking, you can easily think that it’s a time-consuming and complex process. Normally, you have to let the dough rise 2 or 3 times. That’s why most people prefer to buy bread at a bakery instead of making it at home. However, if it is not that difficult to make and it tastes better than store bought bread, would you still buy it? Or would you give it a try and make it at home? You can save money, control your ingredients by picking healthier ones, and enjoy it too. That’s what I’m going to share with you today – a popular Korean-style hot dog bread called Sausage bread or pizza bread in Korea. My husband and sons loved it. 🙂

Yield: 8 Pieces

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Spicy Potato JoRim

매운 감자조림, MaeUn GamJaJoRim

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What kind of Summer vegetables do you think of? Maybe corn in America? I can think of potatoes. We get fresh potatoes in the Summer in Korea and it always brings back good childhood memories of summer for me because I’m a potato lover. Today, I will make a spicy, sweet, and savory potato side-dish for you. In less than 30 minutes, you can make this delicious side-dish and enjoy it. I thought Bryson and Logan cannot eat this because they cannot eat spicy food, but I was surprised that Bryson loved it. He even finished half of the serving size of this recipe today. @.@ I ate the other half. 🙂 … lol … Try it someday.

Yield: 2 Servings

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BaSsak BulGoGi & Spicy Green Onion Salad

바싹 불고기, BaSsak BulGoGi

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Do you know that there are more than one way of enjoying bulgogi in Korean cuisine? You can grill bulgogi and wrap it with lettuce. You can have some broth and cellophane noodles in your bulgogi. Your buglgo can have several vegetalbes in it to fry together such as onion and carrot. Today, I will share a delicious way to enjoy your bulgogi. This type calls BaSsak Bulgogi in Korean and bassak means “dry off” in English. So this specific bulgogi originated from EonYang city in Korea has no broth or liquid. It has great flavor as other bulgogi has but it will have it’s own good texture to make it more tasty. In addition to the bulgogi, I will share a declious Korean spicy green onion salad you eat with your Korean B.B.Q dishes. The raw green onion with spicy, sweet, and sour sauce give wonderful taste for your bulgogi when you eat with it.

Yield: 2 Servings

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Peanut Butter Cream Ppang

땅콩 버터 크림빵, TtangKong Butter CreamPpang

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Do you have any food or ingredient you don’t like to eat? In my case, one of them is peanut butter. lol Since so many people like peanut butter, I can see peanut butter related food everywhere around me. As a joke, my husband tells me I’m weird if I don’t like peanut butter. Anyway, I decided to make something with peanut butter to share with you. We have this peanut buttercream bread in Korean bakeries. But oops … I just started taste testing in my videos recently … what I should I do now? I don’t like peanut butter … should I try it? lol I do believe that there are people out there who don’t like peanut butter like me, or are unfortunately allergic to it. For those people, and me, I will also make a buttercream bread in the video. I’ll try it. How about that? hehe The result was very successful, so please try it someday.

Yield: 6 Pieces

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