Rice Easy
Dakgalbi Rice Bowl
No cheese on this one. The chicken thigh is stir-fried in gochujang sauce alone, and it lands on the rice along with soft, sweet cabbage.
Prep 15min Cook 14min 2 servings
Recipes with sesame oil
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Stir-fry Medium
Korean Stir-fried Potato and Shrimp
There is no gochujang or soy sauce here, only salt and pepper, so what you taste is plain potato and sweet shrimp.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 15min Cook 10min 4 servings
Grilled Easy
Korean Grilled Eggplant (Soy Garlic Glazed Charred Eggplant)
Halved and scored in a grid, the eggplant cooks cut side down under a lid, and the trapped steam turns the inside creamy while the skin keeps a little bite. The soy and garlic sauce is spooned into the cuts while the eggplant is still hot.
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Prep 10min Cook 10min 2 servings
Soups Easy
Korean Sea Mustard Soybean Soup
No meat and no stock, just plain water. Seaweed fried in sesame oil and doenjang (Korean soybean paste) give the broth its flavor, and tofu takes the place the beef would usually hold. It is lighter than beef seaweed soup, and the doenjang leaves the broth slightly thick.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 10min Cook 18min 2 servings
Steamed Easy
Korean Braised Potatoes and Quail Eggs
In the same soy broth, the potato soaks up seasoning to the center while the peeled quail eggs only brown on the outside. It has long been a familiar lunchbox side for Korean children, and it is seasoned without any heat.
🍱 Lunchbox
Prep 15min Cook 25min 4 servings
Noodles Easy
Korean Spicy Platter Noodles
A big platter piled with somyeon, shredded cabbage, cucumber, carrot and torn lettuce arrives tossed in a spicy-tangy gochujang dressing. Each vegetable brings its own kind of crunch against the soft noodles, and the dressing of gochujang, vinegar, sugar and soy hits sweet, sour and hot in quick succession. Sesame oil and toasted seeds round off the sharpness without dulling it.
Prep 18min Cook 10min 2 servings
Salads Medium
Squid Naengi Chojang Salad
The earthy smell of early-spring naengi (shepherd's purse) gives this squid salad with chojang, a sweet-sour chili dressing, its seasonal character. The greens are cleaned of roots and grit, then dipped only briefly in salted boiling water to soften their bitterness while keeping their aroma.
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Prep 20min Cook 4min 2 servings
Side dishes Medium
Korean Seasoned Eoseuri Herb Namul
Eoseuri, a wild mountain herb picked in spring, smells of celery and parsley with a medicinal edge, and it is noticeably more bitter than spinach or bean sprout namul. A blanch of 30 seconds or less leaves the stems with a slight bite.
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Prep 12min Cook 3min 2 servings
Rice Easy
Korean Chicken Rice Porridge
The water the chicken breast was poached in becomes the broth for this porridge. Before it goes in, the rice is toasted in sesame oil with minced garlic.
Prep 20min Cook 45min 2 servings
Stir-fry Easy
Korean Stir-fried Seaweed and Anchovies
Flakes of green gamtae are scattered through a glazed stir-fry of tiny anchovies and sliced almonds, giving a familiar banchan an extra sea smell. Gamtae is a seaweed from Korea's southern coast, milder and less bitter than sea lettuce.
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Prep 8min Cook 7min 4 servings
Grilled Easy
Korean Grilled Beef Short Ribs with Scallions
Soy-marinated short rib meat, seared over high heat, comes topped with a pile of green onion shreds that have been soaking in cold water. Each pick of the chopsticks takes hot meat and cold, crisp onion together.
Prep 20min Cook 12min 2 servings
Soups Easy
Miyeok-guk (Seaweed Beef Sesame Soup)
In Korea this soup is served on birthdays and to new mothers, and on a birthday it also carries thanks to the mother who gave birth. Beef and soaked sea mustard are fried in sesame oil one after the other, then simmered in water for more than 20 minutes, until the seaweed is soft enough to lift easily with a spoon.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 30min Cook 30min 2 servings
Steamed Medium
Korean Steamed Stuffed Chili Peppers
Mild Korean green peppers are halved and packed with a pork and tofu filling, the same idea as pan-fried stuffed peppers, but steamed instead of fried for a lighter result, with skins that turn just translucent. The thin dusting of flour inside each pepper is not decoration: it glues the filling to the pepper so nothing slides out during steaming. Leaving a short stem on gives each piece a handle.
Prep 20min Cook 15min 3 servings
Noodles Medium
Korean Glass Noodle Stir-fry
The noodles, beef, spinach, carrot and onion are each cooked on their own and only combined at the end. There is a single batch of soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil: a little goes on the beef as a marinade, and whatever is left seasons the noodles.
At least 44 min 4 servings
Salads Easy
Korean Scallion Salad (Spicy Green Onion Grilled Meat Side)
Leek-like daepa scallions are shredded into fine threads along the grain and soaked in cold water, which takes off the harsh bite and makes the strands curl lightly. The mellowed shreds are heaped beside grilled meat and picked up together with each slice.
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Prep 10min 0 4 servings
Side dishes Easy
Korean Steamed Eggplant Vinegar Salad
Steamed eggplant, cooled and torn along the grain, comes apart in silky, slippery strands. They are dressed with soy sauce, rice vinegar, and chili flakes and kept cold, and the more dressing you use, the closer it gets to a chilled salad.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 10min Cook 8min 4 servings
Rice Medium
Korean Danhobak Haemul Juk (Kabocha Seafood Porridge)
Part of the kabocha melts into the porridge, so it thickens and turns gently sweet without any added starch. With shrimp and squid in every spoonful, it is closer to a meal than the snack-like pumpkin porridge most people know.
Prep 20min Cook 30min 4 servings
Stir-fry Easy
Korean Gangwon-Style Soy Bulgogi
The Gangwon version of soy bulgogi includes shiitake. Thick slices of the mushroom soak up the marinade along with the onion, and even with pear juice in the mix, the salty soy comes through before any sweetness.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 15min Cook 12min 2 servings
Grilled Medium
Korean Grilled Pork Skirt Meat
Pork skirt comes from the diaphragm. The coarse grain gives a firm chew, and the meat is cut across it. Browning tells you when to turn the pieces, not when they are done; that is decided by the center of the thickest piece reaching 63°C.
Prep 20min Cook 12min 2 servings
Soups Easy
Korean Shepherd's Purse Pollack Soup
Dried pollack, a winter pantry staple, meets the first shepherd's purse dug up in spring. The pollack strips are not soaked, only rinsed of dust and toasted in sesame oil, because a long soak would leave their savoriness behind in the water.
🏠 Everyday
Prep 15min Cook 20min 2 servings
Steamed Easy
Korean Soy Braised Konjac
The konjac is blanched for two minutes first to get rid of its faint limey smell. Shallow crosshatching on both sides lets the soy glaze settle into the grooves, and once it is done it cools completely before serving, which evens out the seasoning.
🍱 Lunchbox
Prep 10min Cook 20min 4 servings
Noodles Medium
Korean Spicy Pork Mixed Noodles
Hot gochujang-marinated pork goes straight onto cold rinsed somen (thin wheat noodles), putting warm meat and chilled noodles in the same bite. The pork shoulder sits in gochujang and chili flakes with soy sauce and sugar, which lay a savory sweetness under the heat. A short, fierce stir-fry keeps water from pooling in the pan and lets the edges caramelize while the inside stays moist. Cabbage and onion cook in the same pan, adding sweetness under the chili heat. A rinse in ice water makes the boiled noodles chewier. The two are combined only right before serving, since thin noodles mixed too early soak up moisture and swell.
Prep 20min Cook 15min 2 servings
Salads Easy
Korean Tofu and Bell Pepper Salad
Coarse, soft lumps of tofu sit between thin strips of red and yellow pepper and cucumber, and each bite alternates between creamy and crisp. The soy and vinegar dressing is a small amount, and any water left on the tofu or vegetables thins it quickly and pools at the bottom of the bowl.
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Prep 12min Cook 3min 2 servings
Side dishes Easy
Korean Steamed Eggplant Namul
The steamed eggplant is torn by hand rather than cut, because the ragged strands hold the soy sauce and sesame oil better than a clean knife edge. Once dressed it turns dark and glossy, and on warm rice it all but melts.
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Prep 10min Cook 8min 4 servings