Korean Food and Recipes
Soybean sprout naengchae is a delicious and refreshing summer appetizer. The honey mustard sauce and fresh vegetables are a great match together. This is served chilled and can be a good match with greasy food. It can also be good party food because you can make this ahead of time. 🙂 Try it someday.
Yield: 1½ Cups
JangAJji (장아찌) is the Korean name for a type of pickle. When making pickles in Korea, the pickling liquid can be based on vinegar, like Western pickles, or it can be based on soy sauce. The recipe that I’m going to share today is based on soy sauce. The pickling liquid itself can be very useful in making different kinds of pickles, depending on your choice of veggies. This recipe uses cucumbers, onions, and hot peppers. You can add garlic or sesame leaves too. It is very easy to make as well and is convenient for serving with each meal.
Yield: ½ Gallon
Young radish kimchi (열무김치, YeolMuGimChi) is a popular summer kimchi in Korea. It is also my favorite kimchi. The kimchi, all by itself, is very delicious to eat with rice. However, it is also very useful in other dishes such as in bibimbap and noodle dishes once it becomes well fermented. I made this kimchi with our home grown radishes. “Young radish” is the type of radish used, not just any radish that is young in age; the Korean name is “열무.” I used a special method to make kimchi broth for this recipe; however, you can skip that step and just use normal water instead. More summer recipes using this kimchi are coming, so stay tuned. 🙂
Yield: ½ Gallon
Cold soybean noodles (콩국수, KongGukSu) is one of the most popular summer menus items in Korea. The homemade creamy soybean sauce tastes great with the noodles, fresh cucumbers, and tomatoes. You can also buy premade soybean sauce for your convenience, but it is not as good as making it from scratch. If you already tried these noodles in Korea, you may find a difference in my recipe because I used sugar. I’m from southern Korea, and in our hometown, it is common to add sugar to this dish whereas other places in Korea normally don’t. So, if you want, you can skip the sugar.
Dear friends, I’m in my 16th week pregnancy now. My morning sickness is gone and my appetite is coming back. I feel hungry more often and sometimes I feel my baby’s cute movements. Bryson is a happy and energetic boy. He often makes us laugh. We are all doing fine. I just wanted to share how we are doing with you all. I hope that I can start posting recipes more often now. Thank you for your patience and support. Please stay cool and happy. 🙂
Yield: 6 Servings
I like one-dish meals since they are simple to make and often have a good combination of nutrients. Today, I will show you a good example using shrimp and baby bok choy. All we need to do is fry some ingredients, along with a few seasonings, and then pour them on top of rice to serve. It is not spicy or greasy. You can replace the shrimp with another type of meat or seafood in addition to replacing the bok choy with some other chinese cabbage such as choy sum or napa cabbage.
Yield: 2 Servings
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
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
Potato and vegetable bokkeum is one of the most common side dishes in Korean lunch boxes. There are several different types depending on how you make it, or what ingredients you use. Today, I will show you my version of fried potato and vegetables bokkeum. I love potatoes, and this is how I like my potatoes as a side dish. Frying just potatoes by themselves tastes great, but if you add other vegetables and especially hot peppers and garlic, it boasts the flavor in the dish. I am happy to share this delicious food with you.
Yield: 2 Servings
Yield: 2-3 Servings
Hi Everyone! Today, I will make a very quick and delicious crispy hottoek using left over dumpling wrappers. Sometime ago, I posted a garlic chive dumpling video and I saved some leftover dumpling wrappers for later. This dumpling wrapper hottoek is one way to use those leftover dumpling wrappers. It takes time to make the dough for traditional hottoek, and it is a little difficult to handle that sticky dough. So, this dumpling wrapper hottek is an easy and fast way to make hottoek. Of course, the texture will be very different, but the flavor is good enough to satisfy your mouth if you like hottoek. Try it someday.
Yield: 8 Servings
