Beef Doenjang Jjigae (Korean Soybean paste stew) made with restaurant Kalbi leftovers is my favorite way to make the most hearty, spicy and earthy stew. The marinated Kalbi bones make an amazingly rich broth and the addition of gochujang in this recipe gives the dish a fabulous spicy kick! A must try if you frequent Korean BBQ restaurants and come home with leftover Kalbi. Doenjang Jjigae ...
Spicy Pollock Roe Stew (Al Tang or Al Jjigae)
Spicy Pollock Roe Stew (Al Tang or Al Jjigae) is a wonderful hearty spicy fish egg stew that is bursting with flavors of the sea while having that unique mix of Korean flavors that are hard to tell what's in it but it just tastes really really good. This is a dish that's hard to replicate and have the same flavor every time unless you have a recipe. Or...you have made it all your life and ...
Budae Jjigae (Korean Army Stew)
Budae Jjigae (Korean Army Stew) is a wonderfully hearty kimchi stew that has become really popular since its creation after the Korean war. If you love Kimchi, this is a MUST-TRY EASY dish. The History of Budae Jjigae After the Korean war, the US military stayed behind and setup bases in several locations throughout Korea. Usually near these bases, one could buy American products ...
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 different ...
Doenjang Jjigae – Korean Soybean Paste Stew
Doenjang Jjigae..I have not yet blogged about this fantastic Korean stew and this is why. It was not on my list of recipes when I first started my Kimchimari Korean food blog because I thought the dish was just too smelly to cook in my daughter's dorm. Cooking in dorms...that reminds me of my grad school dorm days - 6 students (somehow all Asians) with their own rooms shared a common bathroom and ...
Soondubu Jjigae with Kimchi (Spicy Soft Tofu Stew)
Soondubu Jjigae with Kimchi (김치 순두부찌게) Soondubu Jjigae with Kimchi is one of the variations of the spicy soft tofu stew (순두부 찌게 Soondubu Jjigae) that I wrote about some time ago. I know that my original recipe may taste a bit bland to some people and if that's the case for you, you really have to try this version with kimchi and beef. As with many things, adding kimchi makes the jjigae explode ...
Spicy Soft Tofu Stew (순두부찌게 Sundubu Jjigae)
Sundubu Jjigae or Soft Tofu Stew recipe that is so easy to make and so delicious that my husband told me it's almost as good, if not better than the ones at the restaurant! I would have never imagined that Sundubu Jjigae would become so popular with non-Koreans. I always thought that it was unfortunate how Tofu got such a bad wrap for being a healthy but bad tasting food. I wanted to tell those ...