Korean Food and Recipes
Hi! Welcome to Aeri’s Korean Lessons. Through this channel, I will teach you very basic Korean lessons and I will gradually add more advanced lessons. I hope that my Korean lessons can help your Korean study. Let’s study Korean together and have a fun time.
In Korea, there are many rest stops along the major highways. The best thing about Korean rest stops is the different kinds of snack foods to try. Rest Stop Gamja is one of the popular rest stop foods. With less than five ingredients, you can make this delicious snack. Potatoes fried in butter with just the right amount of saltiness will make your mouth very happy. Try this someday. 😉
Yield: 2 Servings
Spicy salted seaweed stem bokkeum is another delicious way to eat seaweed stems. I’ve posted non-spicy seaweed stem bokkeum before. Once you make this, you can serve it for several weeks as a side dish. For this recipe, I used Sempio Youndoo for flavoring. If you don’t have Youndoo, you can add a little bit of salt and/or soy sauce depending on your tastes. The slightly spicy and garlicky flavor makes this seaweed stem dish very tasty. Try it someday. 🙂
Yield: 2 Cups
Custard is very easy to make. Sometimes I will add fruit, but you have to make sure there is not a lot of juice in the fruit. Custard is good while still warm or when chilled in the refrigerator.
Yield: 5 Servings
Sweet Rice Drink is one of the most common and popular traditional holiday drinks in Korea. There are not many ingredients in it; however, it takes long time to make. That is why it is a special drink for holidays. 🙂 It tastes a little like iced tea, but it has a unique barley and rice flavor. It is my favorite Korean drink. 🙂 Lunar new year is coming soon, so try this cool and sweet Korean drink for that special day. 🙂 Now I get to say, “Happy New Year” again! 🙂
Yield: 2½ Quarts
Malted barley powder is often used for the Korean sweet rice drink called “sikhye.” You can find it in a Korean or Asian grocery store. The malted barley from mills in Korea is usually of high quality. There is a chunky type of malted barley powder as pictured in this post, and there is also a fine powdered type that is a litte more convenient to use.
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For Korean Sweet Rice Drink (SikHye)- Storage:
Keep in the cabinet.Short Korean Lesson
- PoDo (포도) = Grapes
- Gyul (귤) = Tangerine
Pine nut juk (JatJuk, 잣죽) is a simple Korean porridge that is thought to be healthy. It is creamy, and it has a very good nutty flavor. This porridge is good for people who cannot chew or digest food well. It is also good for somebody that does not have much of an appetite. Try this delicious porridge someday. 🙂
Yield: 3-4 Servings
Sempio braised chicken is a very easy, shortcut version of Andong JjimDak. When I tried this product for the first time, I thought that the taste is almost the same as authentic homemade sauce. So, I am very happy to share this recipe with you. Andong is a name of a Korean city, and this special dish is a very famous food from that area. The braised chicken and vegetables with the sauce will make you fall in love with the flavor. I love, love, love this food. It is not too difficult to make from scratch, however, it is even easier to make if you have an already prepared sauce like the Sempio sauce that I used for this recipe. I know that there will be many people who can not buy this product where they live, so someday soon, I will post an Andong jjimdak recipe using homemade sauce.
Yield: 2-3 Servings
Sempio Braised Chicken Sauce is for making andong jjimdak, which is a famous braised chicken and vegetable Korean dish. Sempio’s sauce is mainly made with soy sauce and some seasonings such as salt, garlic, ginger, hot pepper extract, fermented soy bean extract, etc. It doesn’t have MSG or synthetic preservatives. Simply cook this sauce with chicken and other vegetables to make a great main dish. The flavor of this sauce is good enough to replace to homemade sauce. It is very easy to use and delicious. You can find this product in a big Korean market, Sempio’s website, or Amazon.
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For Andong Jjimdak (Braised Chicken)- Storage:
Keep in the cabinet.Short Korean Lesson
- AnDong (안동) = A name of a Korean city
- JjimDak (찜닭) = Braised Chicken
Hi Everyone! Are you having a great year so far? Did you make any New Year resolutions? hehe … I hope everybody is doing well. Today, I want to share great news from Aeri’s Kitchen; we just published my e-cookbook on Amazon. Yay! I’m very excited now. The numbers of e-book readers are dramatically increasing, and it is convenient to use Kindles, iPods, iPads, or other readers for cooking, because you can easily take your e-book(s) wherever you cook.
The book has over 130 delicious Korean recipes from Aeri’s Kitchen since April 2008 to December 2010; almost all of the Korean recipes from my blog are in this e-book. Maybe we will have another e-book next year. 😉 The book includes pictures of all of the recipes and a table of contents with pictures for ease in finding recipes, but we were unable to include the step-by-step pictures. The price will be 2.99 USD, which is the lowest price we could sell it at.
