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 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!!!

Ingredients for Korean food

Hi there,

Following my Korean food that I posted before, here is some ingredients from Korean store.

From left; Yubu Chobap packet, Jajjang (Black Bean paste), Seaweed

Yubu Chobap Kit (upclose)

 From the packet, it will turn to this:

And from this seaweed,

Seaweed for making soup

It will turn to be this seaweed soup (Miyeok Guk)

 From these ingredients, it will make spicy rice cake.

Ddeok (Rice Cake), Gochujjang (Chili paste)

Picture below for making Kimbap (Seaweed Roll)

This ingredient for Kimbap; Seaweed and cooked tuna flakes

Ingredients for Red Bean Porridge is just Red Bean Paste that I made;

That's all for today. I'll update about my trip to Korea part 5 soon. Please be patient~

My Home-made Korean Food

Assalamualaikum and Hi Guys~

Today I would like to share my home-made Korean food that I already made. I love to cook and all of these foods, my favourite is Kimchi and Kimbap.

First, Kimchi. This is not my first time but already sixth time. And I made this one 2 weeks ago when my kimchi stock in my house already finish.

Napa Cabbage Kimchi

Radish Kimchi

From Kimchi, I can make Kimchi Fried Rice and Tuna Kimchi Stew. It taste so delicious.

Kimchi Bokkeum Bap (Kimchi Fried Rice)

Jamchi Kimchi Jjigae (Tuna Kimchi Stew)

Second, Kimbap. When I first saw the food in Korean drama, I was wondering if it's difficult to make it because to make it roll nicely and pretty. But when I did, it was so simple and really nice try. Hehehhee...

Seaweed Roll (Kimbap)

Next is Kyungdan. It is glutinous rice ball filled with red bean paste inside it. Coated in sesame seed that already blended with sugar.

Kyungdan (Glutinous Rice Ball)

Next picture is Spicy Rice Cake or Ddeokbokki. It may not taste as good as the one in Shindangdong but still this one my family and my friends love it!!

Spicy Rice Cake (Ddeokbokki)

Non-spicy Ddeokbokki

This is Japche or Glass Noodle with Beef/Chicken and Vegetables. The Noodle is made from sweet potato starch and it chewy. When it combined with all ingredients, it taste so good. Nyum... Nyum~

Japche (Glass Noodle with Beef and Vegetables)

This dish called Yubu Chobap or Seasoned Rice in Stuffed Tofu. I bought the packet from Korean store near my place. You just cook the rice and wallah~ it's done!!

Yubu Chobap ( Seasoned Rice in Stuffed Tofu )

 For this Red Bean Porridge, I made the red bean paste by myself and just add water to make it gravy and put some glutinous rice ball inside it till its cooked.

Patjuk (Red Bean Porridge)

These all I can share with you guys. Any question on how to do it or the recipe, you can ask me directly or contact me via facebook.

Till next time... Bye bye~