Korean Food and Recipes
Today, let’s make a something sweet and cool for a summer treat. Watermelon season has come back and you might want to try to make something new with it. So, I will introduce a Korean style watermelon punch. It is surprisingly easy to make yet super delicious.
Yield: 4 Servings
The TV series, Squid Game has become very popular all over the world. In addition to the popularity of this series, the Korean traditional games and food in it are also attracting many people’s attention. So today, I’m going to teach you how to make DalGoNa, a Korean sugar candy introduced in Squid Game. I had a lot of fun making this recipe and video by making DalGoNa with memories of my childhood and giving my children the opportunity to eat DalGoNa and play the DalGoNa game. I will show you how to make DalGoNa without the need for a specialty kit, using kitchen tools that are easily available in many houses. The ingredients for GalGoNa are very simple, but many people fail to make them. So, I will share tips. Please follow my instructions to make DalGoNa and play DalGoNa games with your delicious DalGoNa.
Yield: 1 Piece
Hi! Today, I’m excited to share a very unique toast recipe that is very popular in Korea. With simple ingredients we normally have in the cupboard,we can easily make something everybody would love. The name is “Cereal Toast”, but it is also called “Drug Toast” (마약 토스트, MaYak Toast) in Korean since it is so addictively delicious. So then, let’s get started! 😉
Yield: 2 Pieces
Today I will share my upgraded version of sweet rice and the red bean rice cake called ChapSsalTteok in Korean. It has an amazingly nice and chewy texture with a perfect balance of sweetness & saltiness for the rice cake part. I will share several tips to make a non-failure ChapSsalTteok in the video instruction, so please watch the video to the end.
Yield: 24 Pieces
Do you think 3 dollars is too much for a doughnut hole at a Korean bakery? Today, I will teach you how to make irresistibly delicious Korean homemade sweet rice donuts called “chapssal donuts” in Korean. One day one of my Korean friends told me that she loves these a lot, but they are too expensive to buy at the Tous Les Jours Bakery inside H-Mart. I normally don’t buy stuff at the bakery there, but when I heard that it’s 3 dollars per piece, it was a jaw dropping experience for me. It shouldn’t be that expensive to make, considering the ingredients. You can buy a whole American donut for less than a dollar. I thought I definitely should make a recipe for this to share with my viewers, because I know there are many out there who love this kind of Asian dessert. Unlike normal donuts, these use sweet rice flour instead of wheat flour, so the texture is a little crunchy on the outside, but soft and chewy on the inside. Also, it has a sweet red bean paste filling, which makes this donut unique, and it will make you fall in love with it. Even though I called it a Korean donut, actually other Asian countries have similar types of donuts with different fillings and coatings. Try this popular Asian sweet rice donuts at home someday.
Yield: 16 Pieces
Today, I will share my recipe for sweet red bean steamed buns called Hobbang or Jjinbbang in Korean. The name is kind of cute and funny and the meaning of the names also make sense. When we eat this hobbang in Korea, it is usually on cold days in the winter. We need to be careful not to burn ourselves when we eat this hot steamed bun. So, to cool it down, we will blow the hot steam from the bun like this.. “ho~~ ho~~ ho~~” so the name for hobbang came from it. Ho is the sound we make, and bbang is bread in Korean. Jjin means an additive word from Jjida which means steam and again bbang means bread, so steamed bread is jjinbbang or hobbang. You will be surprised to see how easy it is to make these authentic and delicious steamed buns at home with your own hands. Let’s get started.
Yield: 8 Pieces
To make the sandwich today, we cut off the crust. Maybe some of you are thinking, “Aeri, that is so wasteful!” I know, I know. So today, I will share a bonus recipe with you to use up that leftover crust. We call this “popcorn bread” in Korea. Btw, I love that name, do you love it too?
Yield: 2 Servings
Hoddeok is a “traditional” Korean street vendor food. Korean people love to eat this delicious snack especially in the cold winter. It tastes best when it is warm. You can find the ingredients for this recipe easily anywhere, so I highly recommend this one. Do you like sticky buns or pecan rolls? If so, I bet you will love this.
Yield: 16 Pieces
Hi, mammoth bread is a popular Korean snack. Don’t worry though, this bread doesn’t contain any wooly mammoths in it. lol As you can see in the video, this bread is huge so it was named after the wooly mammoth. 😉 This bread is unforgettable not only because of the name, but also because of the delicious flavor. You can use any jam for the filling, and if you love whipped cream like me, I highly recommend using it as well. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer to knead the dough, and I was very impressed. Please try this bread someday. Special thanks go out to Ragib Ahanaf, who requested this bread. I hope you like it. 🙂
Yield: 6 Servings
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
