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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...
Cinnamon rolls (Cinnamon-rollppang: 시나몬롤빵)
Today's recipe is very special! Sweet, fluffy, cinnamon rolls (Cinnamon-rollppang: 시나몬롤빵). If you made my original bread rolls (rollppang: 롤빵) recipe, these will be easy for you, because the dough is the same. My rollppang recipe has been so popular since I posted it, probably some of you had a...
Yakgwa (Korean honey cookies) 약과
Koreans have been making and eating these beautifully juicy, crumbly, layered cookies for more than a thousand years! Traditionally we had them only on special occasions and ceremonies, but you can make them whenever you feel like. Why not??
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...
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...
Sweet, chewy, doughnut balls filled with sweet red beans (Chapssal...
Today's recipe is one of the most popular Korean snacks, chapssal doughnuts. They're a modern Korean treat combining traditional Korean rice cakes with Western style deep fried doughnut balls. On the outside the dough is crispy and chewy, and on the inside there's soft, lightly sweet red bean...
Classic Korean mandu dumplings (만두)
This recipe is for traditional, classic Korean dumplings, which everyone loves! This is my original mandu recipe for pork, beef, and chive dumplings that I posted on May 3, 2008. It shows you how to make dumplings and then fry them or make soup from them. Since then I've posted more thorough and...
Chapssaltteok (Korean-style mochi)
This is my first attempt to make the same recipe with 2 videos in English and Korean. Yaho! : ) I can't wait to share this delicious sweet and chewy rice cake with my readers and my fellow Koreans. Chapssaltteok used to be called "mochi" among Koreans, but these days everybody calls this...
Dumpling Wrappers (Mandu-pi)
Today I'm going to show you how to make extra-large dumpling wrappers big enough to make king-sized Korean dumplings. Korean dumplings are called mandu and these wrappers are called mandu-pi. Ever since I posted my first mandu recipe in 2008 many people who don't have access to a Korean grocery...
Korean custard bread (Cream-ppang: 크림빵)
Today's recipe is cream-ppang custard cream filled bread, one of my favorite pastries at any Korean bakery. Since as long as I can remember it's been one of the most popular items in Korean bakeries, along with a sweet red bean-filled bread called danpat-ppang. When I was a kid I used to eat...
Today I'm going to show you a recipe I've been working on for a while: Gyepi-manju (계피만주), which are cinnamon cookies filled with bean paste. These cookies were created by Koreans to look and feel like western style cookies. You can find these cookies at any Korean bakery these days, but when I...
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Scooped: Black Sesame and Orange Ice Cream
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This past week, Ethan and I were dutifully frying up latkes for friends and family. Now that Chanukah's over, we've got a load of starch-spackled laundry to do and some leftovers to get rid of. I often wind up with an extra jar or two of applesauce after a latke session. Sure, a late-night bowlful makes a nice (if not blandly healthy) palate cleanser after all that fried potato, but if you're looking for something a little less virtuous, you can turn that applesauce into a lusciously creamy, spi...
White Sesame Pistachio Crunch Ice Cream
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Black Sticky Rice Mango Dessert
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