Aeri's Kitchen

The Korean beef side dish Tteok GalBi is a very tasty dish that is a good representative of Korean food flavor. Tteok means sticky rice cakes and galbi is a marinated Korean meat dish. However, you will soon see that there are no sticky rice cakes in this recipe. So then, why it is called “Tteok Galbi?” The original Galbi dish uses beef or pork ribs. Tteok galbi has a similar taste with galbi; however, the texture is like sticky rice cakes because it has ground beef and other vegetables in it. Many people love bulgogi or galbi. The soy sauce and sweet flavor mixed with garlic, green onion, and sesame oil makes this dish very flavorful. This recipe can have a strong garlic or onion flavor, so if you don’t like them much, you can reduce the amount. It will be a good dish for a party.

Yield: 2 Dozen Patties

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• AhNae (아내) = Wife
• NamPyun (남편) = Husband

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It is porridge time again! Sometime ago, I posted Korean style chicken porridge, and many people wanted to know how to make more Korean porridge dishes. Today I will post beef and vegetable porridge. If somebody gets sick, or doesn’t have a good appetite, this is a good dish to try. I hope you will enjoy this recipe. Thanks!

Yield: 4 Servings

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• YaChae (야채) = Vegetable
• Ssal (쌀) = Rice

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There are many different kinds of DeopBap in Korea. Today, I will show you how to make one of them. Wait, you may start to wonder what is DeopBaps. hehe… It is a type of food that is served with some food (usually meat, vegetables, and/or sauce) on top of rice, and you mix it all together before eating. SoGoGi DeopBap is a non-spicy type of DeaopBap with a beef topping. The beef has a bulgogi flavor, and there are many different kinds of vegetables in this dish. Later, I will post more types of DeopBap.

Yield: 3 Servings

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• DeopBap (덮밥) = Food that has vegetables and/or meat sauce on top of rice and gets mixed together before eating.
• BeoSeot (버섯) = Mushroom

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Bulgogi is a very popular marinated Korean beef dish. If you make so much bulgogi that you cannot eat it all at once, what can you do with it? You can put some of the uncooked marinated beef in a freezer bag, and put it in the freezer for a quick meal later. It still tastes good and it is very easy to prepare since it will be ready to cook. Today’s recipe is a use for excess bulgogi: bulgogi stew. Just adding some vegetables and noodles will result in this quick dish. Of course it is very delicious too. Since I already posted a bulgogi recipe before, I will skip that part and post a link to that recipe instead.

Yield: 2 Servings

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• TtukBaeGi (뚝배기) = A clay pot.

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MiYeok Guk is a popular Korean soup. Korean people can eat this soup anytime, but it is very popular for special days like birthdays, weaning days, etc. Seaweed has good nutrition in it. According to Wikipedia, “In Oriental medicine, seaweed has been used for blood purification, intestinal strength, skin, hair, reproductive organs, and menstrual regularity.” So, it is a common practice in Korea that moms eat seaweed soup after they birth their babies because Koreans believe that this seaweed soup gives nutrition to both mom and baby through mom’s milk.

There is a funny superstition that some people consider seriously about seaweed soup: The fresh or soaked seaweed has a slippery surface. One Korean word for slippery is “미끄러지다,” which can imply that somebody will fall down. Some people try to not to eat seaweed soup near an important testing day because they do not want to get bad luck from eating it – as to fall down, drop, or fail the test. I personally don’t believe it, but just wanted to share this humorous culture with you. This is a beef version of seaweed soup, but you can use tuna can, clam, mushroom, or make it without any meat instead.

Yield: 2 Servings

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• MiYeouk (미역) = Seaweed

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