Korean Food

 

 

 

Korean Food

 

 

 

 

Korean food is well-known as healthy food.

 It is traditionally made healthy with fresh vegetables and natural ingredants.

It is a related link about Korean food:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPlh6K5AlM

Gim-bap

 

Gim-bap is a rolled rice with seaweed.

People usually put egg, fish cake, cucumber, carrot, yellow pickled radish and ham.

However, up to your taste, you can put tuna or beef instead of ham.

It would be more tasty if you add some sesame oil and salt into the rice.

It is kind of fast food in Korea.

Most of mothers prepare it for children's school trip.

 

 

Here is the recipe:

 

1. When rice is almost cooled, mix with sesame oil and salt.

2. Stir fry carrots briefly with a dash of salt.

3. Stir fry cucumber with a dash of salt.

4. Whisk eggs until evenly yellow and fry into flat omelet.

5. Cut cooked egg into long strips.

6. Cook bulgogi according to recipe directions.

7. Using a bamboo sushi roller or a piece of tin foil, lay the dried seaweed shiny side down.

8. Spread about ½ cup of rice onto 2/3 of the seaweed, leaving the top 1/3 bare (if you moisten your fingers or a spoon to pat down the rice, you'll get less of a sticky mess).

9. Lay the first ingredient down around 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the seaweed.

10. Lay the other fillings down on top.

11. Roll from the bottom (as if you're rolling a sleeping bag),

pressing down to make the fillings stay in.

12. As you continue to roll, pull the whole thing down towards the end of the bamboo mat.

13. Spread a tiny dab of water along the top seam to hold the roll together.

14. Set aside and continue with other seaweed sheets.

15. Cut each roll into 7-8 pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

Tteok-bo-ki

 

 

Tteok-bo-ki was a food which Korean kings enjoyed to eat long time ago.

'Tteok' is Korean rice cake.

Tteok for Tteok-bo-ki is named 'Ga-lae-tteok'

 It has been changed to modern style in these days.

It used to be cooked with soy sauce when king ate it,

but nowadays it is cooked with spicy chilli paste.

It is the most famouse food as street food in Korea.

You can easily find it in the street.

 

 

Here is the recipe:

 

 1. Slice ½ cup worth of an onion into quarter inch pieces. Cut ½ cup worth of a carrot diagonally. Cut 1 green onion into ½-inch pieces. Cut ⅔ cup worth of cabbage into quarter inch pieces.

 

2. To make the broth, boil 2½ cups of water, 6 pieces of kelp, 2 pieces of fish cake, and 1 dried anchovy pack together for about 10 minutes. The dried anchovy pack is optional.

 

3. Remove the kelp, fish cakes, and anchovy pack from the broth. Keep the fish cakes for later and discard the kelp and anchovy pack.

 

4. Cut the cooked fish cakes and the sticky rice cakes into 2 inch pieces.

 

5. In the broth, add 3 Tbsp of red pepper paste, 1 Tbsp of red pepper powder, 2 Tbsp of corn syrup, ½ Tbsp of sugar, 1 Tbsp of soy sauce, and ½ Tbsp of minced garlic. Depending on your taste, you can make your tteokbokki sweeter or spicier by changing the amount of sugar or red pepper paste. If you can’t eat too spicy food, skip the red pepper powder. You can use sugar instead of corn syrup. Cook it for 5 minutes on medium-high.

 

6. Add the rice cakes, carrot, onion, and cabbage into the broth.

 

7. Cook it for about 5 minutes until the rice cakes become soft on medium-high.

 

8. Add the fish cakes and cook for 1 more minute.

 

9. Add the green onion, cook for another minute, and then turn off the heat.

 

10. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top of TteokBokKi to serve.

 

 

 

 

Bul-gogi

 

 

Bul-gogi is a marinated meat dish made with thin slices of beef, usually rib eye.

It is good to introduce and surve to the foreingers because

most of foreigners like it wherever they come from.

It is nicely salty and sweet at the same time.

It would be nicer if you add lots of vegetables such as mushroom.

 

 

Here is the recipe:

 

 1. Use your hands to squeeze the juice from the apple over the sliced beef and set aside. Using an extremely fine grater, turn the onion and pear into pulp (alternatively, you can just blend till liquid but this makes the marinade a bit watery), then mix together with the soy sauce and crushed garlic, then taste for sweetness. If it’s not quite sweet enough for your tastes, add all the sugar, but if it’s close, just add 1-2 tbsp of sugar, mix and taste again.

 

2. Add the sliced meat to the bowl, then pour the marinade over the top, then add the sesame seed oil, sliced spring onion and cracked pepper and massage all the marinade into the meat for about 1-2 minutes, making sure none of the slices of beef are stuck together and that the marinade has been distributed evenly throughout.

 

3. Pour into an airtight container and store in the fridge for at least a few hours, ideally overnight, and cook over a griddle or in an unoiled non-stick frying pan – the reason for that is that the pan juices are extremely tasty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Bibimbab

 

Bibimbab is one of the most well-known Korean food to foreigners.

Its name is come from how we eat this food.

'Bibim' means mix,

and 'bab' is rice.

Therefore, it means 'mixed rice.'

It is up to people's taste to choose the ingredants to put.

But usually, people put grinded beef, fried egg, cooked radish, kimchi,

carrot and some green vegetables.

The most important thing to put is Korean chilli paste.

It is surved with 'Dol-sot' which is a bowl that keeps the heat of the food longer.

 

 

Here is the recipe:

  

1. Cook rice. You can use a rice cooker or a stainless pot.

 

2. Next, you need to prepare a large platter to put all your ingredients on. Rinse your  bean sprouts 3 times and put them in a pot with a cup of water. Add 1 ts of salt and cook for 20 minutes. Drain water and mix it with 1 clove of minced garlic, sesame oil and a pinch of salt.

Put it on the platter.

 

3. Put your spinach in a pot of boiling water and stir it for a minute. Then rinse it in cold water a few times and squeeze it lightly. Mix it with a pinch of salt, 1 ts of soy sauce, 1 clove of minced garlic and sesame oil. Put it on the platter

 

4. Cut 2 small size zucchinis into thin strips, sprinkle them with a pinch of salt, and then mix them together. A few minutes later, sauté them in a pan over high heat. When it’s cooked, it will look a little translucent. Put it on the platter.

 

5. You can buy soaked and cooked “kosari” at a Korean grocery store. Prepare about 2 or 3 cups of kosari for this 4 servings of bibimbap. Cut it into pieces 5-7 cm long and sauté in a heated pan with 1 ts of vegetable oil. Stir and add 1 tbs of soy sauce, 1/2 tbs of sugar, and cook them for 1-2 minutes. Add sesame oil. Put it on the platter.

 

6. Slice shitake mushrooms thinly and sauté with 1 ts of vegetable oil. Add 2 ts of soy sauce and 1 or 2 ts of sugar and stir it for 2 minutes. Add some sesame oil, and put it on the platter.

 

7. On a heated pan, put some oil and 200 grams of ground beef and stir it. Add 4 cloves of minced garlic, 1 tbs of soy sauce, 1/2  tbs of sugar, a little grounded black pepper, and sesame oil.

Put it on the platter.

 

8. Cut a carrot into strips, sauté it for 30 seconds and put it on the platter.

 

9. prepare eggs with sunny side up.

 

10. Put your rice In a big bowl, and attractively display all your vegetables and meat t. Place the sunny side up egg on the center.

 

11. Serve it with sesame oil and hot pepper paste.

 

12. Lastly, mix it up and eat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Korea, and taste it all!