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Korean Food and Recipes

Archives for October 2008

Beef Meatball TwiGim

소고기 완자 튀김, SoGoGi WanJa TwiGim

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This is another one of my mom’s recipes. Yay! When my family lived in the peaceful country, because of my father’s job (teacher), my mom used to make a lunch box and deliver it to him at school. In the morning, I woke up with this awesome smell. “Wow, mom is cooking meat balls for dad’s lunch box. @.@” I sat next to her and enjoyed watching her cook. Of course, I could sample this delicious food before my father tried it. hehe … My father also loved this food. This was a good memory for me. Do you also have any special memories from your mom’s wonderful food?

Yield: 2 Dozen

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Soy Sauce Fish Cake BokkEum

간장 어묵 볶음, GanJang EoMuk BokkEum

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Fish cakes are popular with children. The savory flavor of fish cakes, fried with a delicious sauce and veggies, makes a great side dish. Since this can be used for more than a week, and it tastes good cold, moms like to make plenty of it in advanced. Store it in the refrigerator and serve it with your meals.

Yield: 2 Cups

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Beef JangJoRim

소고기 장조림, SoGoGi JangJoRim

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JangJoRim (장조림) is a Korean side dish using mainly beef and soy sauce. You can also use pork, chicken, or even mushrooms (vegetarians can skip the eggs too) instead of beef. Once you cook this, you can keep it in the refrigerator and serve it with other Korean side dishes for your meal. Usually we use quail’s eggs for this dish, but if you cannot find them in the store, like me, you can just use chicken eggs instead.

Yield: 2 Quarts

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Sweet Rice & Red Bean Tteok

찹쌀떡, ChapSsalTteok

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Korean people have been eating many different kinds of rice cakes as desserts or snacks for a long time. As Westerners eat cookies, pies, cakes, and candy, Koreans eat rice cakes, fruits, and other Korean desserts. Nowadays, Korean people also eat many Western desserts; so, Korean rice cakes are eaten less than before. However, Koreans still eat rice cakes on special days such as traditional holidays, birthdays, etc. Chapssaltteok (찹쌀떡) is a Korean dessert that is mainly made with sweet rice flour and red bean paste. It is almost similar to Japanese mocchi. It will be best to make your own red bean paste at home, but you can buy a can of red bean paste from the store. This time I just used red bean paste from a can. I hope you will like this chewy and sweet rice cake dessert.

Yield: 8 Pieces

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Sweet Rice & Red Bean Rice Cake 1

찹쌀떡, ChapSsalTteok

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Korean people have been eating many different kinds of rice cakes as desserts or snacks for a long time. As Westerners eat cookies, pies, cakes, and candy, Koreans eat rice cakes, fruits, and other Korean desserts. Nowadays, Korean people also eat many Western desserts; so, Korean rice cakes are eaten less than before. However, Koreans still eat rice cakes on special days such as traditional holidays, birthdays, etc. Chapssaltteok (찹쌀떡) is a Korean dessert that is mainly made with sweet rice flour and red bean paste. It is almost similar to Japanese mocchi. It will be best to make your own red bean paste at home, but you can buy a can of red bean paste from the store. This time I just used red bean paste from a can. I hope you will like this chewy and sweet rice cake dessert.


Yield: 8 Pieces


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Zucchini Jeon

애호박전, AeHoBakJeon

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There are many different kinds of Korean jeon depending on what kind of vegetables, seafood, or meat you use. Hobak jeon is one of them. Hobak means zucchini and jeon means pancake. Jeon may be called a “pancake” in English, but the taste will be a little different from what you expect because it is not sweet. You can eat this as a snack or side dish. Try this simple and delicious dish someday. 😀

Yield: 2 Servings

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