If you have some very sour kimchi, do not throw away. You can make salivating delicious Kimchi bean sprout soup with it. Sour cabbage kimchi will yield irresistible robust taste and good crunch texture. So as the bean sprouts. My mother often made this soup when we were suffering with cold in the winter time. Bean sprout broth is known for a good home remedy for cold, plus the addition of kimchi brings a gentle heat to relieve the sinus. It was comforting and often restored the lost appetite. ...
Spicy Tofu and Bean Sprouts
If you have a block of tofu and a package of bean sprouts, here is one dish you should try. This spicy tofu and bean sprouts are quite tasty and satisfying. Use firm tofu for this recipe. Cut them into 1/2-inch squares, press with paper towel to absorb some moisture. Fry them in a little oil, about 4-5 minutes on each side. ...
Beef and Bean Sprout Soybean Paste Stew
I brought a jar of Korean soybean Paste when I came back to Buenos Aires from my summer trip in U.S. It smelled quite stinky, which means wonderful taste when it is made into a stew. I had some soybean sprouts, so I made beef and bean sprout soybean paste stew (소고기 된장찌개, sogogi doenjang Jjigae). The recipe would be similar to the beef soybean paste stew recipe that I posted a few years ago. This would be an adapted and updated recipe, and I hope you can try this comforting stew. It is a ...
Spicy Bean Sprout Salad
Bean Sprouts...! 콩나물, kongnamul! The most consumed vegetable next to the cabbage in Korea would be the bean sprouts. We often call it 국민반찬 (gookmin banchan), which translates into "The national side dish of People's Republic of Korea". Koreans eat bean sprouts A LOT. They are cheap, nutritious, and also very delicious to the taste. What's there not to love about? You can do many things with bean sprouts and here is a very simple Spicy Bean Sprout Salad that you always see in many Korean ...
Beef and Bean Sprout Soup
As I am getting older, winter becomes less and less favorable to me. I must be forgetting one of my childhood wishes. As a child, I always prayed for a cold winter - so cold that it would snow and I could build a snow man. (I grow up in the southern part of Korea where it snowed provably once every 10 years. There were occasional snows but more like a flurry kind) I think I was 10 years old. I woke up one morning and, for the first time in my life, I saw the whole world in front of my eyes ...
Yukgaejang, the spicy Korean beef stew
On August 19, 1910... Soonjong, the last king of Lee dynasty of Chosun (the country prior to the republic of Korea), was forced to give up his sovereign power to Japanese. Korea was colonized to Japan. (Koreans remember that day as the most humiliating day in Korean history of 5,000 years) He was the last emperor of Chosun and, as with last emperors of other nations, he spent the next 10 years of his life lonely in the royal palace with the grief and disgrace. ...
Savory Mung Bean Pancakes, Bindaetteok
I am very excited to present a special recipe today. A while ago I was contacted by "Kimchi Chronicles", the sentational PBS series on Korean food. Marja Vongerichten, the wife of famous chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, shared true beauties of not only many Korean delicacies but the cultures that follows. I have been a big fan of the show and enjoyed many episodes. It is my honor to be as their first guest blogger to present a post. ...
Japchae Salad, modern twist with Korean chili vinaigrette
I still remember the nervousness I felt when I posted my first recipe. It was the Japchae, the famous Korean noodles. Miraculously people have been finding my blog ever since, in search of good Korean food recipe, and my original attempt of making this blog into personal recipe collection for my children has come this far. Thanks to all of you for the support and the encouragement. I love Japcahe but making it can be quite daunting with all the work involved in each ...
Bean Sprout Beef Rice Bowl, a humble guest
I am so happy to announce that I was a guest blogger to the famous Asian food blog, "Rasa Malaysia". A sweet girl named Bee, who recently became a proud mother of cute baby boy, is the author of that blog and I was thrilled to be invited. Her blog is awesome. The recipe I shared was this fabulous yet humble food called Bean Sprout Beef Rice Bowl. You will find the recipe and instructions on her site at; http://rasamalaysia.com/bean-sprout-beef-rice-bowl/?pid=3122#image-7664 Thanks, Bee. I ...