Hobakjuk or Korean Pumpkin Porridge is the perfect food for a cold winter day or any day. It is also a yummy healing food, light on the stomach and very nutritious! VEGAN and GLUTEN FREE. Hobakjuk (Korean Pumpkin Porridge) is considered a great healing food among Koreans. In addition to Miyeok Guk (Korena Kelp Soup), Hobakjuk is another one of Korean mothers' favorite soup to make ...
Traditional Korean New Year Food from Soups to Desserts
Korean New Year Food that is traditional and authentic! From Rice Cake Soup to Sujeonggwa, you can have the most wonderful Korean Seollal (Lunar New Year) with these foods.Korean New Year Food for Koreans that will help celebrate the Lunar New Year! For Koreans and other cultures that celebrate the Lunar New Year, the holiday season doesn't end with the stroke of the clock on January 1st. ...
6 Best Korean Winter Soups
KOREAN WINTER SOUPS!! We make a lot of soups in the winter. I recently shared a recipe for Korean Beef Cabbage Radish Soup using the Instant Pot that my husband likes to make when I’m not able to cook for the family. It’s definitely one of our favorite winter soups! I also have many other Korean winter soup recipes that are great for the season, and I’ve collected them in this post for you to ...
Instant Pot Korean Beef Cabbage Radish Soup
Instant Pot Korean Beef Cabbage Radish Soup is now our family's favorite winter soup! Instant Pot Korean Beef Cabbage Radish soup has also become my husband's specialty soup because he is very good at making it but also because that's the ONE and ONLY soup he knows how to make. hahaha...Back in 2010, I had to be away from home for extended period of time to take care of my sister in the ...
Rice Cake Soup (Dduk Guk) Video and Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year everyone!!Rice Cake Soup (Dduk Guk or Tteok Guk) is what Koreans cook and eat for New Year day. I have already posted a couple versions of this wonderful warming soup in the past so I won't repeat it again but I thought I would make a video of it so that you can visually get an idea of how it is done. The video for the rice cake soup recipe that I made for the video is made with ...
Bulgogi Hot Pot with Glass Noodles (Bulgogi Jeongol)
Bulgogi Hot Pot (Bulgogi Jeongol 불고기 전골 ) Bulgogi Hot Pot has many names in Korean. There are at least 3 names that I know: Bulgogi Jeongol (불고기 전골), Yaetnal Bulgogi (옛날불고기), and Bulgogi Ttukbaegi (불고기뚝배기). Bulgogi, vegetables and glass noodles are cooked in a steel hot pot right at the table or that comes boiling hot in a stone pot. What is Jeongol 전골? Jeongol is a Korean style hot pot that is ...
Radish Soup with Soybean Paste – Korean Mu Doenjang Guk
Radish Soup (무된장국 Mu Doenjang Guk) - the most comforting, soothing, umami flavor packed Korean dish that is truly a 'brings-me-back -home' kind of a soup. Radish Soup!!?? Yes, in Korean it's MuDoenjang Guk. Mu 무 = radish, Doenjang 된장 = soybean paste, Guk 국 = soup.Now that fall is just around the corner (or is it here already?? 😜)...I feel the sun getting weaker and the air getting ...
Easy Instant Pot Galbitang (Short Rib Soup)
Galbitang (Korean Short Rib Soup) cooked in Instant Pot in just 30 minutes! Korean Galbitang soup usually takes hours to boil on a regular stove top and I sometimes end up cooking too much because I get distracted and forget. Sad... But, wait, did I say you can make that same soup in just 30 minutes after you start cooking??!! (Disclaimer - This is in addition to soaking ribs in water for 30 min ...
Alaska Pollock Stew with Gochujang – Dongtae Jjigae
Alaska Pollock Stew or Dongtae Jjigae is a very popular Korean fish stew that is made with frozen Alaska pollock. I have shared in my Bugeo Gui recipe about how Koreans use different words to describe Alaska pollock in different states - fresh, frozen, dried, semi-dried.. Alaskan pollock is such an important ingredient in Korean cuisine that there are unique names (6 in all!) for all the ...
Jeonju Hanok Village (Hanok Maeul)
Jeonju Hanok Village DAY 1 Jeonju, Korea is the capital city of North Jeolla Province. Jeolla province has history dating back to pre-historic times but Jeonju came to existence as a city in 900 AD as part of Later Baekjae era. When I think of Jeonju, I think of Jeonju Bibimbap. That is probably the most famous dish that comes from Jeonju. But recently Jeonju boasts a lot more good eats than just ...