Maangchi recipes

Japchae, sweet potato starch noodles stir fried with vegetables and meat, is one of Korea's best-loved dishes, and one of the most popular on my website as well. If anyone asks me to recommend a good potluck dish, I don’t hesitate to recommend japchae because everyone loves it!

These days it's hot summertime, but you still need to cook! Even on the hottest days you can always get some energy from your own homemade food. Today's recipe is another simple and easy recipe, spicy pork stew or dwaejigogi-jjigae in Korean, a spicy, savory, juicy stew made with pork belly...

Today's recipe is for quick, fresh, small-batch kimchi made with napa cabbage, called baeuchu-geotjeori. I make it Jeolla province style, with a thick paste made from fermented anchovies. I filmed this video in Yeongyang, where the best red peppers in Korea are grown, and is well known for hot...

Today I'm introducing you to my family's all time favorite dish, haemuljeon, a Korean pancake made with a few different kinds of seafood. Growing up in a harbor city on the southern coast of South Korea, every meal table was abundant with seafood. The traditional open air market was very close...

Hello everybody! I am so excited to show you how to make vegetarian or vegan kimchi today. It's from my new cookbook! How long have you been waiting for this recipe? Or maybe you made your own adaptation of my traditional kimchi recipe or my easy kimchi recipe? When people asked me how to make...

Miyeokguk is a soup made of edible seaweed and is traditionally eaten on birthdays or after giving birth, although you can eat anytime you like. Miyeok is rich in iodine, iron, and calcium and many people eat it to lower their cholesterol. This version of the soup is made with beef, which is the...

Gaji-namul is a simple, delicious, everyday Korean side dish, meant to be eaten with other side dishes and rice. It’s one of my favorites. I love the fresh taste, soft texture, and the beautiful vibrant purple color of the dish on the table. It's refreshing and goes well with oilier items to...

I'm going to introduce 2 kinds of kimchijeon to you today: chopped kimchi pancake and non-chopped kimchi pancake.

2 brands of jjolmyeon noodles, sold without broth I prefer to buy the just the noodles and then make my own seasoning sauce at home, which is more delicious and cheaper. If you're in a hurry you can get the set with the sauce, but I suggest that when you make jjolymyoen with the kit you dress it...

This simple, crispy, fresh-tasting and delicious vegan pancake is quick to make and impossible not to like. Make a small one for a snack, or a big one for a meal.

Today’s recipe is bibimbap, a super-popular Korean dish you might have heard about already! It’s a Korean rice bowl made with sautéed and seasoned vegetables (namul: 나물), a bit of hot pepper paste (gochujang: 고추장), and usually a bit of seasoned raw beef, too (yukhoe: 육회). Bibim (비빔) translates...

Mandu Soup I have yet to meet a foodie - that would say no to a dumpling. I’m a big fan of dumplings and have been making won tons f...

My classic, spicy, traditional whole leaf napa cabbage kimchi recipe that I've been using for years and years. Spicy, fermented, and delicious.

Braised black beans (geomeun-kongjorim) is a popular and easy side dish. Sweet and a little nutty, it goes well with beer, but usually we serve it with rice. Korean housewives make it on a regular basis and keep it in the fridge so it's available any time, because children love it. There's...

Today I'm going to show my my all-time favorite fast and easy recipe for a quick, spicy salad that can be made from a head of lettuce. When my napa cabbage kimchi gets old and...

It looks and taste so good. Almost like bonchon chicken.:-) The recipe is here.

I'm excited to release another easy and delicious recipe for you today. Let's make baechujeon, Korean cabbage pancake! It's easy, fast, simple and cheap and most of all you will be surprised how good it tastes! This baechujeon is made with napa cabbage (baechu) which is what we use to make...

There are hundreds of different kinds of kimchi, but the baechu-kimchi is king of them all.

What's a good food for the summer time?! You are looking for something fun and easy to eat? Something portable and bite-sized? It's mandu time! : ) Mandu are Korean dumplings, and I'm very happy to share my chicken mandu recipe with you today. Mandu is usually made with pork or beef, or a...

A simple, quick-to-make, authentic Korean recipe made with bok choy, available anywhere in the USA? Sounds good! It's soft, savory, juicy and beautiful, a great side dish to make when you're in a hurry. Ever since I published this recipe it's been a big hit with everyone who tried it.