Super-nutritious rice cake (Yeongyang-chaltteok: 영양찰떡)

I'm going to show you a very popular and well-loved Korean rice cake, Yeongyang-chaltteok (영양찰떡). I call it super-nutritious rice cake in English because it's made with all nutritious ingredients: black beans, pine nuts, jujubes, honey, and rice flour. It's not only super-nutritious, it's also...

Toisan-Style Joong

Hefty bundles of bamboo leaves generously stuffed with glutinous rice, split mung beans, cured pork belly, lap cheong, salted duck egg yolks, dried baby shrimp, and shredded dried scallop.

Quinoa nurungji (Japgok nurungji: 잡곡 누룽지)

Nurungji (scorched rice left on the pot from making rice) is a crunchy, nutty, Korean favorite comfort food! This quinoa nurungji can make a tasty and delicious soup with the extra nutrition and benefit of quinoa! Paired with side dishes or kimchi it's a great breakfast of lunch.

Layered rice cake with red beans (Pat-sirutteok: 팥시루떡)

Today, I'm going to introduce you to Korean pat-sirutteok (팥시루떡), a steamed, layered rice cake with red beans. Its basically made from two ingredients: pat (azuki beans) and glutinous rice flour. Just thinking of a piece of thin, steamy, chewy rice cake coated with a generous amount of fluffy...

How to Make Tahdig (Persian Crunchy Rice)

How to achieve the delicious, buttery, golden, crunchy layer formed at the very bottom of a traditional Persian-style steamed rice pot.

Chelow (Persian Steamed White Rice)

The famed the base of many other traditional Persian rice delicacies such as tahdig, this is perfectly textured rice that’s fragrant, light, fluffy, and tender, with each grain separate from the next.

Songpyeon 송편

This recipe is a very special one, made for a very special occasion in Korean culture. It's rice cake called songpyeon, which Koreans make for Chuseok, the Korean harvest moon festival (although you can also make them any time you want). The cakes are a little sweet, chewy, and nutty, with a...

Cheonggukjang (Extra-strong Fermented Soybean Paste) 청국장

How many delicious recipes I have introduced to you that use soybeans? I showed you how to make key Korean ingredients with them like fermented soybean paste and soy sauce, and I also showed you how to make soy milk and ground soybean stew with them, too. Today I add one more thing: extra-strong...

Braised beef short ribs (Galbi-jjim: 갈비찜)

This rich, delicious dish is great for special occasions like birthdays, Christmas, Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving), or Seollal (New Year's Day), but you can have it any time you want something amazing. It's tender, sweet, savory, and irresistible, and the meat is almost falling off the rib bones!

Homemade Yakimochi (Grilled Mochi With Soy Sauce and Nori)

Also known as isobeyaki or yakimochi, these tender grilled Japanese rice cakes come together from scratch with the help of a stand mixer.