Korean Food and Recipes
It is porridge time again! Sometime ago, I posted Korean style chicken porridge, and many people wanted to know how to make more Korean porridge dishes. Today I will post beef and vegetable porridge. If somebody gets sick, or doesn’t have a good appetite, this is a good dish to try. I hope you will enjoy this recipe. Thanks!
Yield: 4 Servings
There are many different kinds of DeopBap in Korea. Today, I will show you how to make one of them. Wait, you may start to wonder what is DeopBaps. hehe… It is a type of food that is served with some food (usually meat, vegetables, and/or sauce) on top of rice, and you mix it all together before eating. SoGoGi DeopBap is a non-spicy type of DeaopBap with a beef topping. The beef has a bulgogi flavor, and there are many different kinds of vegetables in this dish. Later, I will post more types of DeopBap.
Yield: 3 Servings
In Korea, we have different types of anchovies for cooking. There are large dried ones (about 2 inches in length) for making broth, medium sized dried ones (about 1 inch) for side dishes, and really tiny ones; the ones that I am going to use today for this side dish. Anchovy sauce is also used as an important ingredient for kimchi. Anchovies are high in calcium, so they are good for your bones. When I was a kid, I hated eating anchovies because of the strong fish flavor. Now my tastes have changed, and I enjoy eating them. Today’s side dish is a fried sweet anchovy side dish. Once you make this, it will keep for several days. Since it is sweet, salty, and crunchy, you can eat it as a snack too.
Yield: 1 Cup
JjamBbong is a Korean version of Chinese spicy seafood noodles. It is as popular as JaJangMyun (blackbean paste noodles) in Korea. You need a lot of ingredients to make this, but it is not that difficult to make and does not take a long time. Do you like spicy seafood dishes? Then, you have to try these noodles someday.
Yield: 3 Servings
BuChu Oi MuChim is made with garlic chives and cucumbers. This dish is a little spicy and sour and it is easy and simple to make. Try it someday with either Korean food or western food.
Yield: 3 Cups
MiYeok Guk is a popular Korean soup. Korean people can eat this soup anytime, but it is very popular for special days like birthdays, weaning days, etc. Sea mustard has good nutrition in it. According to Wikipedia, “In Oriental medicine, seaweed has been used for blood purification, intestinal strength, skin, hair, reproductive organs, and menstrual regularity.” So, it is a common practice in Korea that moms eat sea mustard soup after they birth their babies because Koreans believe that this sea mustard soup gives nutrition to both mom and baby through mom’s milk.
There is a funny superstition that some people consider seriously about sea mustard soup: The fresh or soaked sea mustard has a slippery surface. One Korean word for slippery is “미끄러지다,” which can imply that somebody will fall down. Some people try to not to eat sea mustard soup near an important testing day because they do not want to get bad luck from eating it – as to fall down, drop, or fail the test. I personally don’t believe it, but just wanted to share this humorous culture with you. This is a beef version of sea mustard soup, but you can use tuna can, clam, mushroom, or make it without any meat instead.
Yield: 2 Servings
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Korean tofu soybean paste soup (두부 된장찌개) is a common soup in Korea. If you cannot eat spicy food, you can skip the red pepper paste, the red pepper powder, and the hot peppers. If you are a vegetarian, use 4 shiitake mushrooms instead of 2, and skip the beef.
Yield: 2 Servings
Korean people have been eating many different kinds of rice cakes as desserts or snacks for a long time. As Westerners eat cookies, pies, cakes, and candy, Koreans eat rice cakes, fruits, and other Korean desserts. Nowadays, Korean people also eat many Western desserts; so, Korean rice cakes are eaten less than before. However, Koreans still eat rice cakes on special days such as traditional holidays, birthdays, etc. Chapssaltteok (찹쌀떡) is a Korean dessert that is mainly made with sweet rice flour and red bean paste. It is almost similar to Japanese mocchi. It will be best to make your own red bean paste at home, but you can buy a can of red bean paste from the store. This time I just used red bean paste from a can. I hope you will like this chewy and sweet rice cake dessert.
Yield: 8 Pieces
Fried Kimchi Dumplings
Dumpling Soup
Prior to today, I made kimchi dumplings and I was keeping them in the freezer. Today, I am going to make two kinds of dishes with some of those frozen dumplings. The first is fried dumplings, and the other is dumpling soup. Enjoy! 😉
