Korean Cooking Session - Tuna Kimchi Stew (Chamchi Kimchi jjigae 참치 김치 찌개)

안녕하세요 여러분~

Hi guys!!

For today's cooking session, I'll show you how to make Kimchi stew or Kimchi Jjigae. This is the perfect dish if you really love to enjoy kimchi. As what I know, Korean love to add pork in this stew but as a Muslim for sure I will not put pork but instead I use tuna and beef. 

My favourite is with tuna so in this recipe I will share this type of kimchi stew.

First, let me introduce the ingredients. 

1 tbs cooking oil
1/2 of slice onion
1 cup of well fermented Kimchi
1 can of tuna

1/2 or 1 cup of kimchi water / water
1-2 tofu or soft tofu

spring onion to garnish
chili powder (if want more spicy)

Now, let's cook!!

1. Heat the pot and put the oil. 
2. Put the onion and stir till it golden brown then put the kimchi and stir for a while.
3. After that, put the can tuna in the pot and stir well.
4. Put kimchi water / water in the pot and let it for 3-5 minutes until it boil.
5. Put tofu inside the pot and stir a bit. 
6. Turn off the heat
7. When serve, garnish the stew with chopped spring onion. 
8. You can add chili powder when cook the stew if you want more spicy. 

Good luck and have a nice weekend~ 

Please comment if you have question or request for other recipes.

Till next time... 

Korean Cooking Session - Sweet Potato Latte (Goguma Latte)

Hi and Annyeong!!!

This time I will post about one of my favourite drinks that I know after watching Yongseo couple in We Got Married (WGM) - Sweet Potato Latte.

Because in one of their WGM episode, Seohyun did order Sweet Potato Latte in a cafe named Jess Cafe. From her reaction I can feel that the drinks is really yummy~ So I tried to make it one day and guess what it's really delicious and yummy!!!

So here is the recipe that I will share with you guys especially to my goguma chingus~

The ingredients that we need;

1/2 - 1 medium size of sweet potato (already cooked)

500 ml milk

2-3 tbs honey

How to do it;

1. Cut the sweet potato into small pieces and blend it by using blender or food processor. Put a little bit of water to make it smooth when you blend it.

2. Put the blended sweet potato into a pot and pour in the milk. 

3. Heat it on the stove and stir well.

4. After that, put the honey into the pot and stir well.

5. Turn off the heat and serve in a cup. 

6. Enjoy it while it still hot.

I'm using purple sweet potato for this

Goguma latte with orange sweet potato

Enjoy it!! 

Any question regarding this recipe, please comment below~ 

Thanks for read it~

Korean Cooking Session - Spicy Rice Cake (떡볶이 Ddeokbokki)

Hi guys~
Long time no see here..

As so many request from my friends, so I decide to share with you guys this Korean snack recipe called 'Ddeokbokki' or Spicy Rice Cake.

Let me introduce the ingredients first.

We need;

3 cups of water

5-10 anchovies

2-3 tbs chili paste

2-3 tbs sugar

1/2 packet of  rice cake

Fish cake

Sausage

Spring onion

Sesame seed (to sprinkle)

Okay now we go to how to do it;

1. Heat the water with anchovies until it boil. Take out the anchovies and let aside.

2. Put the chili paste and stir it till it blend. 

3. Put sugar and stir well. Let it heat for a while.

4. Put the rice cake inside. Stir and wait till the rice cake soft and the gravy is thick. 

5. Cut the fish cake and sausage and put together and stir well.

6. Cut the spring onion to the size according to your taste. Put inside.

7. Stir well and let it cook for a while for about 5-10 minutes.

8. Serve on plate and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

* Some of you might found ready made Ddeokbokki sauce/paste when you visit Korean store but for me better do it yourself. 

* For Ddeokbokki, make sure you use the right size of rice cake as Rice Cake Soup will use different size of rice cake. Some will be in long shape and you have to cut it first before you cook it. 

* For chili paste, it according to your taste. If you want it to be more spicy then add more. If you like sweet and spicy, put more sugar.

Enjoy the recipe and let me know if you guys have some trouble with it by comment it here! 

Wait for my next cooking session post~ 

Korean Lesson - Family (가족 Ka-jok)

Family in Korean culture has three parts; 

• General, Brother or Sister's Husband or Wife's Name, 
• Husband's Side of Family and 
• Wife's Side of Family. 

General Words
English	Hangul	Pronunciation
Family	가족	Kajok
Relative by marriage, in-laws	사돈	Sadon
Husband's home/family	시집	Sijip
Parent's home/family of a married woman	친정	chinjeong
Parents	부모	Bumo
Cousin	사촌	Sachon
Brothers	형제	Hyeongje
Sisters	자매	Jamae
Relation	친척	Chincheok
House of one's wife's parents	처가	Cheoga
Father	아버지 / 아빠	Abeoji / Appa
Mother	어머니 / 엄마	Eomeoni / Eomma
Grand mother	할머니	halmeoni
Grand father	할아버지	harabeoji
boy's elder brother	형	hyeong
boy's elder sister	누나	nuna
girl's elder brother	오빠	oppa
girl's elder sister	언니	eonni
younger brother/sister	동생	dongsaeng
uncle	삼촌	samchon
maternal aunt	이모	imo
husband of one's maternal aunt	이모부	imobu
paternal aunt	고모	gomo
husband of one's paternal aunt	고모부	gomobu
aunt	숙모	sungmo
uncle	숙부	sukbu

Brother or Sister's husband or wife's name
English	Hangul	Pronunciation
husband's elder brother	아주버니	ajubeoni
wife of one's elder brother	형수	hyeongsu
younger brother's wife (sister-in-law)	제수	jesu
husband of a girl's elder sister (brother-in-law)	형부	hyeongbu
elder sister's husband (brother-in-law)	매형	maehyeong

Husband's side of family
English	Hangul	Pronunciation
father-in-law	아버님	abeonim
mother-in-law	어머님	eomeonim
husband's elder brother	아주버니	ajubeoni
brother-in-law	형님	hyeongnim
sister-in-law	동서	dongseo
brother-in-law	도련님	doryeonnim
brother-in-law	서방님	seobangnim
sister-in-law	아가씨	agassi

Wife's side of family
English	Hangul	Pronunciation
father-in-law	장인 어른	jangin eoreun
mother-in-law	장모님	jangmonim
brother-in-law	처남	cheonam
wife of brother-in-law	처남댁	cheonamdaek
sister-in-law	처제	cheoje

Ok, that's all for today's lesson. If you want me to post anything, just let me know by comment. I'll read all your comment and try my best to fulfil it.

Happy New Year 2013!!!

Hi everyone~ 

Happy New Year 2013... May this year will bring you with happiness and healthy!!!


안녕하세요 여러분들~

새해 복 많이 받으세요... 건강하게 이 2013년에 잘 받으세요!!

Usually on every first day of new year, Korean will have Rice Cake soup (떡 국) to begin their day.
Happy new year again!!!

Korean Cooking Session (Kimchi, 김치)

Hi everyone~

After so many request from my friends and my followers to show the recipe on how to make Kimchi, finally I decided to post it here.

Kimchi (Korean: 김치), also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is a traditional fermented Korean dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. It is Korea's national dish, and there are hundreds of varieties made with a main vegetable ingredient such as napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber. Kimchi is also a main ingredient for many Korean dishes such as kimchi stew (김치찌개; kimchi jjigae), kimchi soup (김칫국; kimchiguk), and kimchi fried rice (김치볶음밥; kimchi bokkeumbap).

Let me show you how to salting the cabbage.

First, prepare about 3 large Chinese cabbage (Napa cabbage) like this (it's up to you how much you want to make but for me, I use 3);

Then cut it into 4 part like this and don't forget to wash it twice;

I want to make into bite pieces so, I'll cut 1 part of the cabbage into half like this;

And cut again into small pieces like this;

Prepare the salt and when use it, put the water in the bowl;

I use this much salt for 1 1/2 of the cabbage

Put the salt in the cabbage like this and let it soaked for 2-3 hours;

This portion is about 1 1/2 of cabbage

The cabbage will look like this after 3 hours;

Wash it twice and drain it after that;

Now time to prepare the chilli paste. The ingredients that we need for the paste are;

Ingredient A

1 Big Onion (Holland onion)

10 Cloves Garlic

1 Inch Ginger

1/2 cup Fish Sauce

Ingredient B

1/2 cup Glutinous Rice Flour

1/2 cup Sugar

1 1/2 cup Water

1/2 or 1 cup Chilli Powder

For other vegetable in the paste;

1 Carrot

1/4 Radish

Spring Onion (Put in according to your taste. If you like more spring onion, then put many)

First, blend together all of Ingredient A until it become like this and put it in the big bowl;

After that, prepare the Ingredient B because it need to be cook like this;

Stir  continuously the ingredients with low heat

Until it become thick like this

Let it cool and set aside. Now let's cut the other vegetable!!

Let's make the chilli paste!!!

Put together Ingredient A, Ingredient B and Chilli powder in one big bowl like this;

Chilli powder that I bought from Korean market

Mix it together until it become like this;

Let's put the carrot, radish and spring onion one by one like this and mix it together;

Put the soaked cabbage that we already wash earlier in to the bowl and mix it together. Please use hand gloves or plastic to avoid the chilli paste from the hands.

Prepare a container to put the Kimchi. (I use this container to put all my Kimchi)

I eat some before put it in the fridge because it looks so delicious and trust me you won't regret it!!!

Good luck and let me know if you want to know anything regarding this recipe~

Till my next post, Annyeong!!!

Korean Lesson (Numbers)

Hi everyone!

This is my first time to post a Korean lesson here. Today is about numbers.

As most of the Korean words derived from Chinese words, so do the numbers. Numbers in Korean divided by two types. Sino and Pure Korean.

Sino Korean is derived from Chinese numbers while Pure Korean derived from Korean language.

Please comment and give feedback if you want to know more about numbers.

Sino Korean

1 = il  (일)	6 = yuk (육)
2 = i  (이)	7 = chil (칠)
3 = sam (삼)	8 = pal (팔)
4 = sa (사)	9 = gu (구)
5 = o (오)	10 = ship (십)

* Usually use in money currency. (won - 원)

Hundred = baek (백)

Thousand = cheon (천)

Tenth Thousand = man (만) à 10,000… 20,000… 30,000…

Pure Korean

1 = hana  (하나)	6 = yeoseot (여섯)
2 = dul (둘)	7 = ilkob (일곱)
3 = set (셋)	8 = yeodeol (여덜)
4 = net (넷)	9 = ahob (아홉)
5 = daseot (다섯)	10 = yeol (열)

-         *  Usually use when you want to state how many things or person.