Pan-fried rice cakes with sweet red bean filling (Bukkumi)

Today I'm going to show you how to make bukkumi, pan fried rice cakes filled with sweet red beans, or with mung bean paste. These rice cakes are gooey, chewy, and sweet on the inside and crispy on the outside. The texture is just wonderful, both soft and crispy at the same time. The best thing...

Mung bean porridge (Nokdu-juk: 녹두죽)

Today let's make an easy, delicious, hearty and super-nutritious recipe for mung bean porridge called nokdu-juk (녹두죽)! The mild, smooth, and soft porridge is not only comforting but also nutty and filling. Korean cuisine has a lot of different kind of porridges (in Korean:죽 juk), and I showed...

Kongnamulbap (Soybean sprouts bibimbap)

The best part about this dish is that it’s very easy to make, simple, and delicious!

Kimchi pancake (Kimchijeon: 김치전)

A kimchi pancake is one of the easiest and quickest things to make and is one of Koreans' all time favorite dishes. It's hot, spicy, crispy, a little sweet, sour, and a little salty. It is not only a great snack but also it goes well with rice as a side dish, and is great in lunchboxes in place...

Cabbage pancake (Baechujeon: 배추전)

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...

Steamed pork buns (Jjinppang-mandu)

“We used to make a large quantity at once, enough to eat for the whole winter. We kept hundreds of steamed pork buns in earthenware pots in the yard. The weather was so cold that the buns were frozen the whole winter, until we finished them. They were hard as stones the whole time. We ate them...

Fluffy steamed buns filled with sweet red beans – Jjinppang (찐빵)

Today's recipe is for traditional Korean jjinppang: fluffy steamed buns filled with red beans. I shared a similar recipe a long time ago for steamed fluffy buns filled with vegetables and meat called jjinppang-mandu. My jjinppang mandu recipe has been used by many of my readers over years and...

Beef Pancakes (Soegogi-jeon)

Today let's make some soegogi-jeon, or beef pancakes. It's a super-simple recipe that pretty much every meat eater loves: nice, tender beef sliced thinly, battered lightly in flour and egg and pan fried quickly. The result is light, meaty, savory, golden brown, and really delicious. This is a...

Pan-fried perilla leaves with fillings (Kkaennip-jeon: 깻잎전)

Today's recipe, Kkaennip-jeon (pan-fried perilla leaves with fillings), is a fast, fun, and light savory side dish. If you like perilla leaves (kkaennip: 깻잎), you will love this dish: the egg batter makes the lightly minty leaves a little crispy, and the juicy, savory, beef patty fillings go...

Soybean sprout soup with rice (Kongnamul-gukbap: 콩나물국밥)

Today's recipe is a popular 1 bowl meal well-loved by all Koreans. It's delicious, savory soybean sprout soup with rice mixed right in. It's fast, warm, hearty and satisfying. This style of soup is called gukbap in Korean - literally soup (guk 국) and rice (bap 밥), and this recipe with soybean...