Bulgogi Kimchi Pasta is a simple and quick Korean pasta dinner (for one or for many) with very few ingredients but packed with flavor!! Bulgogi Kimchi Pasta was something my sister #3 has been telling me to try for sometime but somehow I just could not get myself to make it. I think I kind of have a mental block when it comes to Korean fusion... But last Christmas when my sister and her family ...
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 ...
Korean Rice Bowl with Sashimi – Hoedeopbap
Korean Rice Bowl with Sashimi. This is the only name I could come up with that would describe this fabulous dish in a self-explanatory way. I know 'Sashimi' is not a Korean word, but very few people would know what 'Hoe/Hwe' means; which is the same thing - raw fish.Hoedeopbap (회덮밥) is the Korean name but oh boy.. how can anyone even remember that spelling?? I certainly can't!! Can ...
Easy and Pretty Mille-Feuille Nabe (Shabu Shabu)
Shabu Shabu (see my Shabu Shabu Korean Style recipe) and really good Japanese Nabe was one of the foods I missed the most when I first came to US some 20+ years ago. Although these foods have origins in Japanese cuisine, just like how Pizza has totally become part of American food, shabu shabu and nabe have become very much a common food in Korean food scene. In Gainesville, Florida (where I ...
“Mock” Kimchi Rice with Sauerkraut and Bacon
In addition to traditional, authentic Korean recipes, I decided I should also share some modern recipes that have Korean flavors but not necessarily traditional and also non-Korean recipes that are worth blogging about. As long as they taste yummy, why not? Right? OK, so hope you will all follow me on this new journey of mine.This recipe is great if you have no access to Kimchi but you are ...
Hot Kimbap!
Hot Kimbap?! Here's what you can do with leftover cold kimbap. Pan fry it with some sesame oil - absolutely delicious!!So this week's post will be on how to make Kimbap (김밥)/Korean Seaweed Rice Roll. But before I post that, I thought I would blog about how yummy leftover Kimbap can be - in kind of reverse order of things..since I did not get to post last week. I made Kimbap two days ago ...
Dakdoritang (Best Korean Chicken Stew)
Dakdoritang is a great hearty traditional Korean chicken stew that's seasoned with soy sauce and is easy to make. It's great as one pot dish. Control the spiciness by adding less or more chili peppers.Dakdoritang 닭도리탕 (Korean soy sauce chicken stew - also called Dakbokkeumtang 닭볶음탕) recipe that is so easy to make, it actually made me nervous the first time I made it. Is that it? That's all ...
Buckwheat Noodles Salad (Korean Makguksu)
Buckwheat noodles with chicken and vegetables aka Makguksu (막국수) and hot summer go together like hot chocolate and cold winter. There's just something curiously cooling about all the fresh crunchy vegetables and cold buckwheat noodles(메밀국수 maemil guksu) mixed together. But then again, nothing curious about it I guess, since maemil/buckwheat IS a cooling food. Buckwheat is so effective in cooling ...
Kimchi Mari (김치말이) – Cold Kimchi Rice
Kimchi Mari is a very quick (5 min) kimchi rice dish that you can make anytime. Just need rice, kimchi and few seasonings. No cooking required! (except for rice). So simple and delicious!!Yesterday was one of those days when I really did not feel like cooking anything but still wanted to have something good to eat for lunch. And then it hit me...Kimchi mari. I almost forgot how great this ...
Rice with Korean Soybean Sprouts (콩나물밥 Kongnamul Bap)
If you have ever been to a Korean restaurant, you probably had a side dish made from these soybean sprouts (콩나물 Kongnamul). They are also great in soups and stews and Koreans swear that Kongnamul Gook(soup) will cure the common cold. Nutritionally, soybean sprouts contain tons of vitamin C and are also a good source of vitamin Bs, thiamine and folate. The head (the bean part) contains a lot of ...