I don’t like eating large amounts of food but I do spend the time to source good ingredients. Kimchi is the one of healthiest foods that you can eat. It is packed full of nutritious ingredients. We can use it as a seasoning. We can eat Kimchi as a salad, as a special gourmet addition to…
Category: Cooking Basics
Baek(white)Kimchi
Baek (white) Kimchi with no chillies. This Kimchi is stuffed with a variety of vegetables, fruit, pine nuts, oysters and rock ear mushrooms. The original Kimchis were Baek Kimchi from over a 1,000 years ago but did not use the Chinese leaf cabbage. In those times, Kimchi was radish dipped in fermented soya bean…
Kimchi guk(soup or stew)
In Korea if there is No Kimchi, then there is No meal! For breakfast, lunch and dinner all year round it is on your dining table. This means that a Kimchi refrigerator is a key appliance in Korean homes. I haven’t yet seen someone who hasn’t got one in their house. Kimchi is the…
Kong-namul (soybean sprouts)
Kong means bean in Korean, Namul means edible plants. Banchan (side dishes) are a big part of the Korean home kitchen. Kong-namul is one of the most popular side dishes and also one of the classic vegetable ingredients of Bibim-bab. It seems that Koreans started to eat this around 500 years ago. Beansprouts are different…
Buchu-jeon
Garlic chive savoury pancake. See all the ingredients here you can use less or more. See how I made kimchi pancakes here.
How to Toast Sesame Seeds
Toasted sesame seeds are one of the essential Korean ingredients. Koreans barely ever used raw sesame seeds in their dishes. Sofar I haven’t seen any toasted sesame seeds in either Waitrose or Morrison supermarkets yet. Toasted sesame seeds can be used as a seasoning in marinades, dressings and almost all types of “Bnachan” (side dishes)…
How to Cook Rice
Most Korean people have to have a bowl of rice at least once a day so Korean families have got a special rice cookers that keep rice fresh for 2-4 days after its made. Therefore steamed rice is like bread so we can have any time we want. One thing that surprised me about England is that when I wanted…
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