Vegetarian – Aeri’s Kitchen

Family Secret Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

August 18, 2017 by Aeri Lee 2 Comments

My husband’s family used to make a large batch of homemade spaghetti sauce once a year. Since they canned it, all of us could enjoy delicious homemade sauce all year around. Although it was delicious, it needed a lot of work and time – too much of work. It would take about a whole day to make it. I have good memories helping my mother-in-law make the spaghetti sauce, but for the past several years, we stopped making it. I’ve been craving that tasty sauce. My husband always wanted to make shortcut version of it, which still tastes like the secret family recipe. We tried different methods over the years, each time getting closer to the goal. Finally, I can share a successful recipe to share with you. 🙂 My husband thinks that this easy version of spaghetti sauce is almost the same as the original. Yay!!! 👏😄 For this recipe, I’m going to use an electric pressure cooker as a key method to save my time and effort. I am very excited to show you how to make this delicious homemade spaghetti sauce in an hour. 🙂 I also can not wait for my in-laws to try it and tell me what they think about it. lol

Yield: 5 Servings

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Korean Sauna Eggs with Pressure Cooker

찜질방 계란, JjimJilBang GyeRan

August 4, 2017 by Aeri Lee Leave a Comment

If you are into Korean dramas, or if you’ve visited Korea, you might know that saunas are popular in Korea. People often eat special food while they are relaxing and enjoying their time there. Some popular ones are cold rice drinks called sikhye and steamed eggs. I already posted a recipe for sikhye before, so you can check it out. Since I’m living outside of Korea right now, I no longer can eat those delicious eggs. I was debating making them at home and I finally got the chance to do it. Recently, I was thinking of getting an electric pressure cooker or a slower cooker, because there are several different kinds of food that I wanted to make with it, such as spaghetti sauce, steamed eggs like the ones in Korean saunas, galbitang, etc. Then, as if somebody was reading my mind, one day, a company named BESKEK contacted me and suggested that I try their new electric pressure cooker. It was a perfect timing. Before I accepted a pressure cooker from them, I made it clear that, if I try it, I will only share my review publicly if I think their product is good. Otherwise, I will not make any posts, even if they send me their product. Thankfully, they agreed with me. I could experience something new in my kitchen. So far, I made plain white rice (I wanted to compare it with my stove-top pressure cooker), steamed eggs, homemade spaghetti sauce, and chicken broth. In this post, I will review my experience and share one recipe (steamed eggs) with you. Of course, this means that I’m satisfied with the result and I think this product is good enough to introduce to my viewers. 🙂 So here is my homemade Korean sauna egg recipe for you. ^^

Yield: 12 Eggs

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Mammoth Bbang

맘모스 빵, MamMoS Bbang

June 2, 2017 by Aeri Lee 2 Comments

Hi, mammoth bread is a popular Korean snack. Don’t worry though, this bread doesn’t contain any wooly mammoths in it. lol As you can see in the video, this bread is huge so it was named after the wooly mammoth. 😉 This bread is unforgettable not only because of the name, but also because of the delicious flavor. You can use any jam for the filling, and if you love whipped cream like me, I highly recommend using it as well. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer to knead the dough, and I was very impressed. Please try this bread someday. Special thanks go out to Ragib Ahanaf, who requested this bread. I hope you like it. 🙂

Yield: 6 Servings

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SsamJang A.K.A Seasoned Soybean Paste

쌈장, SsamJang

May 19, 2017 by Aeri Lee Leave a Comment

Today, I’m very excited to share my delicious ssamjang recipe with you. I made this especially for my long time friend, Arleen who wanted to know the Aeri’s Kitchen version of ssamjang. Here it is, Arleen. I hope you like my ssamjang recipe. 🙂 Ssamjang is a seasoned soybean paste that you use for wrapping Korean B.B.Q. with some lettuce. When you wrap Korean meat, you can add some raw onion, garlic, fresh hot pepper, and so on. So, all those flavors go in to this delicious ssamjang too. Enjoy this salty, spicy, garlicky, slightly sweet, and nutty flavor. In my next post, I will show you how to pack a simple lunch box with this ssamjang, so stay tuned. 🙂

Yield: ½ Cup

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Vegetarian JapChae

채식주의 잡채, ChaeSikJuEui JapChae

March 31, 2017 by Aeri Lee 8 Comments

Have you ever been at Korean buffet or Korean food catering place to eat delicious Korean food? If you did, you definitely saw or tried the Korean stir-fried cellophane noodle dish called Japchae. Japchae is one of the most popular and common traditional Korean foods. Compared to the homemade ones, I see a few unique things about restaurant japchae. One is that restaurant japchae seems to keep the shiny oily texture of the noodles longer than homemade ones. Like any other noodle dishes, you can imagine that the noodles become fluffy/soggy as the time goes. Restaurants need to do something about that since you do not want to serve customers soggy noodles. Another thing is that most restaurant japchae doesn’t have meat in it. If the japchae comes as a side or buffet menu in the restaurant, the restaurant makes it cheaper by skipping the meat. Skipping the meat also makes it good for vegetarians or vegans. As a result, restuarnt japchae tends to have a more glossy texture and it is meatless. But, the taste is still delicious and if you make restaurant-style japchae at home, it is okay to make it ahead of time for your party or meal since it keeps better. Of course, if you are a vegetarian or a vegan, this is just perfect for you. So today, I will post my second japchae recipe for japchae – my restaurant or vegetarian version.

Yield: 4-6 Servings

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