Time for dessert! In Korea, you can get tasty donuts from a street vendor or bakery. What about making them at home? Here is a good recipe for you. These Korean styled twisted donuts are delicious and fun to make. With simple ingredients you usually have at home, you can easily make these for your family, friends, and yourself. I made this recipe especially for my sweet friend Arleen. I hope that she will like this.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• GgwaBaeGi (꽈배기) = Twisted
• TuiGiDa (튀기다) = Fry

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Tteokbokki is one of the most popular Korean street food and snack in Korea. If you are familiar with tteokbokki, you will easily think of the spicy red tteokbokki. However, today I will show you a very different flavor (but delicious) of tteokbokki, royal palace tteokbokki. (We also call it soy sauce tteokbokki = 간장 떡볶이 = ganjang tteokbokki) The reason they call it royal palace tteokbokki is this dish originated from one of the dishes that they served for the king or his royal family in Korean history. Wow, a dish that Korean kings and queens used to eat, isn’t it special? hehe… The soy sauce mixed with other seasonings and vegetables gives the sticky rice cakes a great taste. Try this delicious tteokbokki someday. : D

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• BokSoongAh (복숭아) = Peach
• JahDu (자두) = Plum

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Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• SinBahl (신발) = Shose
• YangMahl (양말) = Socks

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This is a simple version of a Korean zucchini fritter. Typically, we cover sliced zucchini pieces with some flour, and then dip them into an egg mixture before frying them. However, today I will just dip the zucchini into a flour batter. You can eat these delicious zucchini fritters plain, but dipping them in a little soy sauce mixture makes them tasty even better. It is good for a lunch box, party appetizer, or as a side-dish for normal meals. If you are a vegetarian, you can skip the egg and add a little bit of more water to the batter.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• ShinBal (신발) = Shoes
• YangMal (양말) = Socks

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This Korean style fruit salad is an another old fashioned food. It is made from different kinds of fruit, hard boiled quail eggs, crab sticks, and peanuts, all mixed with mayonnaise. Does it sounds weird or interesting to you? =P I guess, when mayonnaise was introduced to Korea, this salad was one of the uses for it.
In Korea, when somebody moves to a new house, they invite family or friends to their new house and have a meal together. I remember doing that. I went to those kind of parties with my parents many times. Almost every party had this salad. My mom also made it whenever we had a party at our house. As a kid, it was one of my favorite menu items for the meal. The fun part of eating this salad was digging to find the best parts – the pieces of crab or the eggs. (Oops, that does not sound like good table manners, but my excuse is that I was a kid. ㅋㅋㅋ)
Nowadays, there are many different kinds of fancy salad dressings from the Western world in Korea, so this old fashioned fruit salad is not as common as it was before. However, many people include me still miss this old fashioned salad every now and then. The sweetness from mixed fruits, slight saltiness from the crab sticks, nuttiness from the peanuts, and the egg flavor mixed together with mayonnaise – yummy~~~ Anyway, I was very excited to make this dish and share the recipe with you, because it is delicious and it can be a unique dish to try. I ate and ate after I made it. It was still as delicious as I remembered. @.@ Hehe, I hope you like it too.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• Gwail (과일) = Fruit
• TtangKong (땅콩) = Peanuts

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The Korean snack dish Kimchi Jeon is a Korean style pancake using well fermented kimchi. There are many different kinds of Korean pancakes using vegetables, seafood, or meat in Korean cuisine. We call this type of pancake, “Jeon”. Among them, this kimchi pancake is one of the most popular Korean pancakes.
Today, I want to share some secrets to make really tasty kimchi pancakes with you. When I was little, I used to visit an aunt’s house and she made kimchi pancakes for me. I love kimchi pancakes, but her kimchi pancakes were always the best ever. I got some tips from her how to make kimchi jeon. When I make them, I use some of her tips, so I’m sure you will love this.
Aha, I will explain something about Korean food today. Some people asked me, why I call some Korean dishes as pancakes, even though they are not sweet, and not even close to the American pancakes that you might be thinking about. Another word that could describe Korean pancakes is “fritter” – batter mixed with different kinds of ingredients: vegetables, seafood, meat, and so on.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• SunMul (선물) = Gift
• Saengil (생일) = Birthday

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Today, I will show you how to make “sweet potato dessert.” I tried to make this dish twice before, but couldn’t get it right – I cooked the sugar and corn syrup too long, and it became hard like hard candy. @.@ This time, I just slightly melted the sugar and it worked. Personally, I don’t like sweet potatoes or sweet things much, so it’s not my kind of food. However, somebody requested this dish, and finally I got a recipe from some experience. When it’s warm (right after making it), it tastes good, but once you reheat it, or it becomes cold, the taste is not that good. So, I highly recommend you eat this when it’s warm. Also, Korean sweet potatoes are different from American sweet potatoes in taste, texture, and color. They are more sweet, and more dry. Please try to find Korean sweet potatoes to use for this recipe.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• GoGuMa (고구마) = Sweet Potato
• Mat (맛) = Taste, Flavor

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Yube Chobap is a Korean style Japanese food. Korea and Japan are very close in distance, there were also various relationships with each other throughout history. As a result, there are some foods that Korea and Japan got from each other and changed, such as Korean style chap-ssal tteok (mochi) that was from Japan. Or in the other case, and example would be Japanese style kimoochi (kimchi) that was from Korea. Anyway, when I was little, I’ve never seen yubu chobap or other kinds of sushi, then at sometime, people started to eat sushi and it became popular in Korea. Since the way to make this dish is super easy, people often make this for picnics (along with Kimbap) or for a party. The rice tastes similar to the rice for sushi which has a vinegar and sugar flavor in it. You can make everything from scratch, but there are some companies that sell a ready-made pack. All you need is cooked rice, some vegetables (if you want extra vegetables), and that pack. So today, I’m going to show you how to use that package. Depending on your taste, you can add chopped burdock root or other kinds of vegetables that you like. I tried different kinds of sweet peppers for this recipe, and I enjoyed eating this. My husband doesn’t like tufu and sweet and sour flavor much, so I guessed he will not like this one. My guessing was right. After he tried some of the seasoned rice, he didn’t want to eat anymore. oops ~~ So I ate all 16 chobaps alone. haha… Anyway, if you like sushi, you might like this dish.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• YuBu (유부) = Soybean Curd
• Cho (초) = Vinegar
• Bap (밥) = Rice

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Beef kimbap (쇠고기 김밥) is a type of Korean kimbap. I use the same recipe to marinate the beef for this beef kimbap as the beef for the Korean stuffed peppers. (I’ve already posted it sometime ago.) Green, orange, yellow, black, white, brown … the color combination from the ingredients are very good. Of course, the taste is even better.

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There are many different kinds of Korean Pancakes according to what kind of vegetables, seafood, or meat you use. This hobak-jeon is one of them. (Hobak means zucchini and Jeon means pancake in Korean) Even if people call jeon as a pancake in English, 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 simple and delicious this dish someday.

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