#korean cooking

[sikfankitchen]

Mandu (Korean Dumplings) filled with Pork, Garlic Chives & Glass Noodles. 🥟

[health-e-diet]

Classic Korean Dishes You Need to Try

Korean cuisine is known for its bold flavors, vibrant colors, and unique combinations of ingredients. Here are some classic Korean dishes you absolutely need to try, along with easy recipes to help you bring the deliciousness of Korean food into your kitchen!

1. Bibimbap

Bibimbap is a mixed rice dish topped with an array of vegetables, meat (usually beef), a fried egg, and gochujang (Korean chili paste).

Easy Recipe: Cook rice and set aside. Sauté vegetables like spinach, carrots, and mushrooms separately. In a bowl, place a serving of rice, arrange the sautéed vegetables on top, add sliced beef (or tofu for a vegetarian option), and top with a fried egg. Drizzle with gochujang and mix before eating!

2. Kimchi

Kimchi is a staple in Korean cuisine, made from fermented vegetables, typically napa cabbage and radishes, seasoned with chili pepper, garlic, and ginger.

Easy Recipe: Chop napa cabbage and sprinkle with salt, letting it sit for a few hours. Rinse and mix with garlic, ginger, gochugaru (Korean chili powder), and fish sauce (or soy sauce for a vegan version). Pack into a jar and let ferment at room temperature for a few days before refrigerating.

3. Bulgogi

Bulgogi is marinated beef that’s grilled or stir-fried, known for its sweet and savory flavor.

Easy Recipe: Slice beef thinly and marinate in a mixture of soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic, and pepper for at least 30 minutes. Stir-fry the marinated beef with sliced onions and carrots until cooked through. Serve with rice and lettuce leaves for wrapping.

4. Japchae

Japchae is a stir-fried glass noodle dish made with sweet potato noodles, vegetables, and sometimes meat.

Easy Recipe: Soak sweet potato noodles in hot water until soft, then drain. Stir-fry a mix of vegetables (like bell peppers, carrots, and spinach) in sesame oil, add the noodles, and season with soy sauce and sesame seeds. For added protein, toss in some beef or tofu.

5. Tteokbokki

Tteokbokki are spicy rice cakes that are chewy and satisfying, often found in street food stalls.

Easy Recipe: Boil water with gochujang and sugar to create a sauce. Add sliced rice cakes and fish cakes (optional), simmer until the sauce thickens, and garnish with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.

These classic global Korean recipes showcase the essence of Korean cuisine, combining flavors and textures that are sure to delight your taste buds. Whether you’re new to cooking or looking for easy recipes to try at home, these dishes are a great way to enjoy the rich culinary tradition of Korea!

[fffinnagain]

Finding Korean food i can eat as a non-korean vegetarian living in Norway is a bit difficult. I am learning to make things from combos of online recipes and a lot of substitutions, conversions, and creativity. The results aren't Korean in any proper sense, but they are often very tasty.

Here is one of my favourites, generically called Korean-spiced chickpeas because i hacked together some recipes for jokbal (aka braised pigtrotters) but without meat, the name doesn't really make sense. (@drinkingcocoa-tpp and i talked through what i might call this mash up. here we are.)

The recipe as i have recorded for home use in the image. More normal version below.

Korean spiced chickpeas

500 g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight

6-10 cups water (top up as needed)

1/2 c each: mirin, soy sauce, brown sugar

2 tbsp deongjang (fermented bean paste)

2 tsp instant coffee

1 onion, quartered

1 apple, quartered

5 cloves of garlic, split

2 cm ginger root, sliced thick

2 bay leaves

1 cinnamon stick

and in a herb pouch: 5 cloves, 7 dried chilies, 5 star anis, 1 tbsp peppercorns

Most of the water and everything else goes into a big pot. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2-3 hours, topping up water as needed until chickpeas are cooked through, skimming foam as it accumulates. Remove surviving solids (herb pouch, bayleaves, what remains descernable of onion and apple) and simmer at medium/medium high for 20-30 minutes, till the broth is reduced to a thick sauce around the chickpeas.

Slow but simple.

These chickpeas are great to eat with lettuce (though they like to roll away so fold carefully) or with rice and whatever banchan. I've also had them wrapped in various flat breads because nothing is sacred in my humble kitchen.

And although i have listed proportions for the spices, this ends up on the mild side for me, given the ingredients as available. Maybe your dried chilies are more powerful.

Lastly, if anyone tried this, I'd love to hear how it went, or what you choose to modify. Like I added ssamjang instead of deongjang one desperate time when i couldn't find the latter, and that was hotter but still tasted good.

[purple-studying]

It's exam season.

So I'm doing a thing that I think every Korean Langauge major would in such important time like this.

I'm pickling white radish.

And it turned out pretty cool, right? The marinade is a bit too little but I shook the jar so it spreader evenly.

[wanghousekoreancafe]

Discover the Joy of Korean Cooking at Home

Korean cuisine is a feast for the senses, offering bold flavors and vibrant dishes that are rich in history and tradition. From Kimchi Fried Rice to Bibimbap, making these dishes at home allows you to connect with Korea’s culinary heritage. Essential ingredients like Gochujang, sesame oil, and soy sauce bring authenticity to every meal. Experimenting with these recipes not only teaches you cooking techniques but also lets you immerse in a culture of balance and harmony. Start your Korean culinary journey today!

Read more: Step-by-Step Recipes for Popular Korean Dishes

[theafternoonmoon]

Kimchi Jjigae : a kimchi stew with pork ribs, tofu, a whole container of kimchi, garlic, onions, chicken broth and vinegar. Served over rice. A perfect Fall dish.

[hyejin-mugunghwa]

Logo for a new opening korean cooking workshop in Albi (33 Fr)!

Hyeseon, the cooking master opens her house and her heart to show you how to make meals like a native korean!

Taste it! Make it! Love it!

[healthylivingwithcancer]

Kimchi omelette/scramble!

Still seeking ways to diversify with kimchi. This is recipe from a writer I found in Singapore. Love the addition of mirin; it perfectly balances the kimchi and gives it umami! You can add any vegetables – I added shitake mushrooms. Sad to say my omelette pan malfunctioned so it came out a mess of eggs but it was totally scrummy! I think the gentle heat advised is a problem in a stainless steel…

[rickgentle]

Experience a taste of Korea with this delicious Beef Bulgogi recipe

[genericcookingblog]

i made kimchi fried rice! it's my first time making it so i hope i did it justice :-)

recipe used:

[sikfankitchen]

Kimbap! Korean Sushi 😋

[daily-deliciousness]

Korean beef bulgogi

[niurd]

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[toyastales]

Korean BBQ Beef Rice Stack

[purple-studying]

When life gets tough but you have Asian store 5 minutes from you, so you pick up pickled white radish and just make bibimbap

[absolutebl]

2024's 10 Best BL Kisses (and more)

Okay lushes, the one you have all been waiting for! My favorite BL kisses of 2024.

10 Last Twilight - Beach

9 My Damn Business - Leaving Forever

8 Cooking Crush - all of them

7 Kidnap - In the Bed in Blue

6 Cherry Magic Thailand - On the Rooftop

TayNew were a top tear OG class act this year. Tender, sweet, respectful and joyful. It was eye work and breath work and 8 years of comfort. How very far BL has come while still staying the same.

5 The Sign - Poolside

4 Love for Love's Sake - Beach Boyfriends

So sweet and smiling and soft with each other.

3 Wandee Goodday - Crying

You know me, I LOVE a crying kiss.

2 The Time of Fever - Teach Me

Possibly the only kiss trope I like MORE than the crying kiss, is the "teach me" kiss. SIGH. SO GOOD.

and now...... THE BEST KISS OF 2024!

1 Jack & Joker - We Boyfriends Now

I just, it was just. GREAT. So great. YinWar win.

BONUS! My Top 3 Sex Scenes of 2024!

3 This Love Doesn't Have Longbeans - Health Code Violation

2 Pit Babe - Alan & Jeff FINALLY

I know, same pair, but I love how different these were. Alan and Jeff are tender and loving, and waiting and pining. Oab and Plawan were fire.

1 The Sign - Most of it. The fantasies and that first actual sex scene where they revisit the fantasies. Brilliant. Wonderful. Carry on.

Look it's just the way Billy moves his hips and Babe's tiny waist and what can we do? No one else can even come close.

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Addendum, someone did a pretty fun compilation of 2024 kisses: