Korean Lettuce Salad - Sangchu Geotjeori (with Sesame Dressing)

Sangchu Geotjeori - Korean Lettuce Salad - is a fresh leaf lettuce salad with sesame oil and soy sauce dressing. It’s served at many Korean BBQ /galbi restaurants. Because of its savory taste, the salad is very popular even among non-Koreans.
Here is a quick recipe for sangchu geotjeori - Korean Baby Lettuce Salad with sesame [......]

Posted in Korean Food on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Kimchi Bokkeumbap - How to Make Healthy Kimchi Bokkeumbap

Kimchi bokkeumbap (김치볶음밥) is one of the most popular Korean dishes, and it’s super easy and fast to make it. It’s also easy to create your own version of special kimchi bokkeumbap because you can add pretty much anything including various kinds of vegetables, meat, cheeses or seasonings.
* Bokkeumbap means fried rice and some of [......]

Posted in Korean Food on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

Simmered Tofu, Tofu Jorim, Dubu Jorim, Dubu Ganjang Jorim

Tofu, soy bean curd, dubu in Korean, is a great source of protein. It’s also cholesterol free, low in saturated fat, and rich in minerals and vitamins such as iron, calcium, manganese, etc. With all these great nutrients, tofu has low calories compared with other protein food, and helps lower LDL (bad cholesterol) levels. It’s [......]

Posted in Korean Food on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Delicious Ramyun - How To Cook Tasty Korean Ramen?

How Do I Cook Delicious Ramyun?
This question sounded strange to me first - how to cook delicious ramyun? To me, ramyun is tasty no matter what, and it’s very difficult to screw up with ramyun. You don’t need a lot of special skills to cook ramyun. To most Koreans, cooking ramyun is the easiest thing [......]

Posted in Korean Food on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

How to Make Gimbap - Making Healthy Kimbap

What is Kimbap?
Gimbap or Kimbap is a Korean fast food or snack that is popular among Koreans. It literally means ’seaweed (cooked) rice’. It’s made from steamed rice (bap) and various ingredients wrapped and rolled in a sheet of seaweed (gim or kim). It’s served in bite-size slices, usually with Kimchi or pickled radish (danmuji). [......]

Posted in Korean Food on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments »