Hey guys, sot I know that it has been a while since I last posted a post. But seriously, I'm on my summer break so I might as well take a break from blogging as well. I'm probably going to not blog until two weeks after new years. So until then I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and I wish you all a Happy New Year.
And enjoy the rest of 2011...and welcome 2012!!!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Red Bean Porridge (팥죽)
Hey, so it has been a while since I have posted a recipe hasn't it?
Well in that time the weather still hasn't warmed up very much, it is still pretty much hovering around the 20's, no where near where a typical summer would be like. So I'm going to stick to writing recipes for the people in the Northern hemisphere, that it is where it is winter at the moment.
Let's see, today is the 21st so that means that the Winter Solstice is tomorrow on the 22nd. That is good, it means that I will have posted this post up in time for all those who are hurriedly looking for the recipe.
Today I am going to be posting up the recipe for Red Bean Porridge, or PatJuk(팥죽). Here is a brief history of the dish, and the Winter Solstice.
A traditional Korean winter solstice event is making and eating red bean paste porridge (called ‘patjuk’ in Korean). Red beans are boiled and small balls of glutinous rice are added, making a thick and sweet porridge. Red beans symbolize the chasing away of evil spirits, and the rice balls symbolize new life. Therefore, eating a delicious bowl of patjuk on winter solstice was believed to chase away all illnesses. Also eating the same number of rice balls as one’s age symbolizes the successfully passing of the year.
In the olden days, Koreans would sprinkling red bean paste porridge around the yard and share the dish with neighbors to chase away evil spirits. At the time, many also believed that a warm winter solstice meant the coming of disease and death while a cold, snowy winter solstice meant a prosperous New Year.
Although the winter solstice is not a major Korean holiday like Chuseok or Lunar New Year’s Day, Korean families do get together to enjoy a sweet bowl of red bean paste porridge and wish each other a healthy and prosperous New Year.
And now, I will move on to the recipe for this dish. It is quite simple and you are bound to want to have another bowl.
Ingredients
½ cups non-glutinous rice
1⅓ cups sweet red bean
4 cups scalding water
12 cups boiling water
rice ball
1 cup glutinous rice powder
⅛ tsp sugar
1½ tbsp water
1 tsp sugar
Method
1. Wash the rice, soak in water for 2 hours, drain water on a strainer for 10 min.
2. Wash the red bean and remove dirt, drain water on a strainer for 10 min.
3. Put red bean and scalding water into the pot, heat it up for 4 min. on high heat. When it boils, continue to boil it for another 3 min. Discard the water, add new boiling water into the pot, heat it up for 10 min. on high heat. Lower the heat to medium, boil it for 1 hour and 20 min. for the red bean to be deeply cooked.
4. While the cooked red bean is still hot, put it on a strainer, strain the red bean by mashing with wooden scoop. Reserve 8 sups of red bean water. Settle the mashed red bean for 30 min.
5. Sprinkle sugar on the glutinous rice powder, knead with hot water. Shape rice balls so that you get 25 from the mixture.
6. Put 4 cups of red bean water and soaked rice into a pot, heat it up for 4 min. on high heat. When it boils, lower the heat to medium, boil for another 20 min. with stirring.
7. When the rice is cooked, add the red bean paste. When it boils again, continue to boil for 10 more min. and add rice balls, wait for 1 min. When the rice balls float on, season with sugar and bring it to a boil.
And there you have it, a nice sweet dessert that is going to warm you up this winter and make you forget about how cold it is outside.
I hope that you all have fun making it for tomorrow, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and be healthy and happy. I'll try to post again before Christmas ^^
Well in that time the weather still hasn't warmed up very much, it is still pretty much hovering around the 20's, no where near where a typical summer would be like. So I'm going to stick to writing recipes for the people in the Northern hemisphere, that it is where it is winter at the moment.
Let's see, today is the 21st so that means that the Winter Solstice is tomorrow on the 22nd. That is good, it means that I will have posted this post up in time for all those who are hurriedly looking for the recipe.
Today I am going to be posting up the recipe for Red Bean Porridge, or PatJuk(팥죽). Here is a brief history of the dish, and the Winter Solstice.
A traditional Korean winter solstice event is making and eating red bean paste porridge (called ‘patjuk’ in Korean). Red beans are boiled and small balls of glutinous rice are added, making a thick and sweet porridge. Red beans symbolize the chasing away of evil spirits, and the rice balls symbolize new life. Therefore, eating a delicious bowl of patjuk on winter solstice was believed to chase away all illnesses. Also eating the same number of rice balls as one’s age symbolizes the successfully passing of the year.
In the olden days, Koreans would sprinkling red bean paste porridge around the yard and share the dish with neighbors to chase away evil spirits. At the time, many also believed that a warm winter solstice meant the coming of disease and death while a cold, snowy winter solstice meant a prosperous New Year.
Although the winter solstice is not a major Korean holiday like Chuseok or Lunar New Year’s Day, Korean families do get together to enjoy a sweet bowl of red bean paste porridge and wish each other a healthy and prosperous New Year.
And now, I will move on to the recipe for this dish. It is quite simple and you are bound to want to have another bowl.
Ingredients
½ cups non-glutinous rice
1⅓ cups sweet red bean
4 cups scalding water
12 cups boiling water
rice ball
1 cup glutinous rice powder
⅛ tsp sugar
1½ tbsp water
1 tsp sugar
Method
1. Wash the rice, soak in water for 2 hours, drain water on a strainer for 10 min.
2. Wash the red bean and remove dirt, drain water on a strainer for 10 min.
3. Put red bean and scalding water into the pot, heat it up for 4 min. on high heat. When it boils, continue to boil it for another 3 min. Discard the water, add new boiling water into the pot, heat it up for 10 min. on high heat. Lower the heat to medium, boil it for 1 hour and 20 min. for the red bean to be deeply cooked.
4. While the cooked red bean is still hot, put it on a strainer, strain the red bean by mashing with wooden scoop. Reserve 8 sups of red bean water. Settle the mashed red bean for 30 min.
5. Sprinkle sugar on the glutinous rice powder, knead with hot water. Shape rice balls so that you get 25 from the mixture.
6. Put 4 cups of red bean water and soaked rice into a pot, heat it up for 4 min. on high heat. When it boils, lower the heat to medium, boil for another 20 min. with stirring.
7. When the rice is cooked, add the red bean paste. When it boils again, continue to boil for 10 more min. and add rice balls, wait for 1 min. When the rice balls float on, season with sugar and bring it to a boil.
And there you have it, a nice sweet dessert that is going to warm you up this winter and make you forget about how cold it is outside.
I hope that you all have fun making it for tomorrow, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and be healthy and happy. I'll try to post again before Christmas ^^
Friday, December 9, 2011
Hot Spicy Fish Soup 매운탕
Hey guys, so I am back with another post today. I hope that you guys tried out the Yugwa recipe from the last post, because I did and it turned out quite nice.
It has been quite cold in Korea and where I am lately so I thought that I should post a recipe that is sure to warm you up from the winter chills. Where I am from and in Korean both share an abundance of one type of food, and that is seafood. So today I am going to introduce to you a recipe that is going to use seafood and warm you up.
Today it is going to be just one variety of seafood stew that can be made in winter. It is going to be Hot Spicy Fish Soup or 매운탕. This is mainly more focused on putting fish into a spicy soup that is made more refreshing by the addition of radish and other vegetables such as green onions and chilies.
The origins of the name is that the name is a combination of two words: maeun, which derives from maepda (맵다), meaning "hot and spicy"; and tang, meaning "soup."
The dish itself is quite easy to make if you have prepared all the ingredients beforehand.
Now, for my version of spicy fish soup.
Ingredients
2 trouts whole (12-14 inches)
½ cup radish, thin sliced
2-3 red chilies, cut in slices
100g tofu, cut into sqaures
6 tbsp gochujang
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp gochugaru
3 tbsp minced garlic
3 tbsp salt
6 cups water
Method
1. Scale and wash the fish, then verticall
y cut into several pieces.
2. Put water in a pot, start boiling.
3. Add gochujang, gochugaru and soy sauce. Bring to a boil.
4. Add radish, squash, half of chilies, keep cooking on a medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
5. Add fish, tofu and garlic.
6. Heat until fish is completely cooked. Add salt to taste.
7. Add green onions.
8. Cook for another 1-2 minutes.
9. Serve hot with white rice.
2. Put water in a pot, start boiling.
3. Add gochujang, gochugaru and soy sauce. Bring to a boil.
4. Add radish, squash, half of chilies, keep cooking on a medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
5. Add fish, tofu and garlic.
6. Heat until fish is completely cooked. Add salt to taste.
7. Add green onions.
8. Cook for another 1-2 minutes.
9. Serve hot with white rice.
So there you go guys, a nice spicy soup that will be sure to warm you up this winter. And if you like shell fish you can always add them in too to help provide a refreshing taste.
I'll post again soon. Stay healthy and be happy.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Yugwa (유과)
So, my exams have finished and to celebrate I'm going to post a dish up. If you look at the time stamp for this post you are probably going to wonder why I am doing this during school hours. It is because I got my wisdom teeth removed yesterday so I'm at home recuperating from it all. And to past time I am writing a post ^^
Today I am going to tell you guys about another Korean dish. It is going to be Korean Hangwa's (한과) or for this post specifically Yumilgwa(유밀과). The name is now more commonly Yugwa (유과) in it's shortened form. I know that these are traditionally eaten at Chuseok, but I just can't wait to share the recipe with you guys. Feel free to try it for next year's festivities.
Gwa means “confectionery”. Sources disagree in their interpretation of han in this word, that is, whether it means “Korean” and whose hanja is 韓 or the one that means “Chinese” and whose hanja is 漢. Most sources, such as several major commercial online dictionaries and encyclopedias, interpret hangwa as “韓菓” (“Korean confectionery”), counterpart of yanggwa (洋果), Western confectionery.
Contrariwise, the internet edition of a standard dictionary by the National Institute of the Korean Language, South Korea's official language regulating body, has “漢菓” (literally “Chinese confectionery”) with a definition that differs from the one given in other sources and this article, calling it a kind of yumilgwa, which is also variety of Korean confectionery, instead of the other way around. This dictionary makes no mention of “韓菓”, whether as an alternative hanja spelling or in a separate entry.
My simplified version of it is that the term "han-gwa" literally means cake or cookie. They are basically cooked with oil and honey and then coated with things like sesame seeds or coconut flakes or thick grains of sugar.
Some are sweeter than others. Some melt in your mouth and others are quite chewy.
Anyway, enough of that. It is time to tell you about the recipe. Today I am going to show you how to make Yugwa because I think that it is the easiest one to make at home.
Ingredients
1 kg of rice cakes (tteok) preferably the tube shaped ones
1 kg of sugar
5 slices of ginger
seasame seeds
Method
1. Roll the rice cakes so that they are flat.
2. Prepare a frying pan and oil for that they tteok can be fried. It is best to have two pans prepared.
3. Set the flame to a medium heat and pour vegetable oil into the pan.
4. When the oil is hot enough place a handful of the rolled tteok into a frying ladle.
5. Fry it until it begins to puff.
6. Transfer it to the next pan and fry until it is golden brown and puffed out. Be careful to not let it burn.If the oil heats up too quickly, you can turn it back down to a low heat.
7. Repeat that for all the tteok.
8. When all the tteok has been fried, set it aside and let the oil drain.
9. To prepare the sugar syrup to coat the tteok, put the sugar and and ample amount of water into a pan. You want enough sugar so that the syrup is not too thick.Place you slices of ginger in at the same time.
10. Let that cook and when all the sugar has dissolved be careful to not let the mixture burn. Turn the heat off when the mixture is ready. Set it aside and let it cool.
11. When the sugar syrup has cooled, and the tteok has had the oil drained, place spoonfuls of the tteok into the syrup and coat it in syrup.
12. When it is coated fish it out and place it into the sesame seeds. Let the tteok be coated in the sesame seeds. Repeat this for the remaining tteok.
And there you have it. A delicious dessert that you can serve during Chuseok and also when you have guests at the house. If you don't want to have ginger flavoured yugwa you can always not put it in.
I hope that you like this recipe, and I'll post another recipe soon. Stay healthy and be happy.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Yeongyang-dolsotbap 돌솥 비빔밥
오랜만에? It has been a while since I last posted a recipe right?
It is now starting to get cold in SK, and with today it is the official arrival of winter. Although I have not finished exams yet, I really want to make a post to welcome the start of winter.
Today I will be introducing you to a dish that can be eaten in winter to help warm you up, and keep you happy.
"Yeongyang-dolsotbap (돌솥 비빔밥) is a nourishing dish of rice, ginseng, jujubes and chestnuts which are believed to have healing properties. Rice tastes best when cooked in a stone pot because it cooks evenly and stays hot in the pot." Source: Visit Korea Website
It is also known as hot stone pot rice. Basically it is rice that is cooked in a stone pot with vegetables and usually some egg, but today I will be introducing you to a more healthy version of it that involves ginseng and other health goods.
It main problem would probably be finding the pot, especially if you are in a Western country because there just doesn't seem to be many stone pots around.
Anyways, once you have overcome that hurdle the rest of the recipe is quite simple.
Ingredients
360g (2 cups) non-glutinous rice
90g (½ cup) glutinous rice
30g black bean, 60g (4 ea) chestnut, 32g (8 ea) jujube, 37g cultivated pine mushrooms, 24g (12 ea) gingko
10g (1 tbsp) pine nuts
25g ginseng (fresh wet ginseng)
600g (3 cups) water
seasoning sauce : 54g (3 tbsp) soy sauce, 14g (1 tbsp) minced green onion, 5.5g (1 tsp) minced garlic, 1.1g (½ tsp) ground red pepper, 6g (1 tbsp) sesame salt, 0.3g (⅛ tsp) ground black pepper, 8 g (2 tsp) sesame oil
Preparations
1. Wash the non-glutinous rice and glutinous rice cleanly, soak in water for 30 min., drain water on a strainer for 10 min. (non-glutinous rice 440g, glutinous rice 110g).
2. Wash the black bean, soak in water for 3 hours drain water on a strainer for 10 min (63g).
3. Skin the chestnuts, cut into 2~4 pieces. Wipe the jujube with damp cotton cloths, cut the flesh round, divide into 2~3 pieces.
4. Skin the cultivated pine mushrooms, slice it into 0.7cm-thick, maintaining the mushroom shape.
5. Preheat the frying pan and oil, stir-fry the gingko for 2 min. on medium heat with rolling, skin off. Remove tops of pine nuts, wipe the nuts with dry cotton cloths.
6. Wash the ginseng cleanly, remove the head part, cut into 2cm-long and 0.7cm-thick round.
7. Blend seasoning sauce.
Method
1. Put the non-glutinous rice, glutinous rice, black bean, chestnuts, cultivated pine mushrooms, ginseng and water into the stone pot, heat it up for 10min. on high heat. When it boils, continue to boil for another 3 min.
2. Lower the heat to low, add the jujube, gingko and pine nuts, boil it for 10 min. Turn off the heat, steam it for 10 min. for well-done.
3. When the rice is well-done, mix them thoroughly. Put in a bowl and serve with seasoning sauce.
That is it, it really is not that hard and even if you do find it hard think of all the health benefits from this one dish. The ginseng and roots in the dish will help your body fight the cold winter, especially since even Seoul is reaching the minus-degrees.
I hope that with this dish you can all stay health and warm this winter. Take care until my next post, hopefully after Monday when my exams have finished. Fighting!!
건강을 유지하시기 바랍니다!!
It is now starting to get cold in SK, and with today it is the official arrival of winter. Although I have not finished exams yet, I really want to make a post to welcome the start of winter.
Today I will be introducing you to a dish that can be eaten in winter to help warm you up, and keep you happy.
"Yeongyang-dolsotbap (돌솥 비빔밥) is a nourishing dish of rice, ginseng, jujubes and chestnuts which are believed to have healing properties. Rice tastes best when cooked in a stone pot because it cooks evenly and stays hot in the pot." Source: Visit Korea Website
It is also known as hot stone pot rice. Basically it is rice that is cooked in a stone pot with vegetables and usually some egg, but today I will be introducing you to a more healthy version of it that involves ginseng and other health goods.
It main problem would probably be finding the pot, especially if you are in a Western country because there just doesn't seem to be many stone pots around.
Anyways, once you have overcome that hurdle the rest of the recipe is quite simple.
Ingredients
360g (2 cups) non-glutinous rice
90g (½ cup) glutinous rice
30g black bean, 60g (4 ea) chestnut, 32g (8 ea) jujube, 37g cultivated pine mushrooms, 24g (12 ea) gingko
10g (1 tbsp) pine nuts
25g ginseng (fresh wet ginseng)
600g (3 cups) water
seasoning sauce : 54g (3 tbsp) soy sauce, 14g (1 tbsp) minced green onion, 5.5g (1 tsp) minced garlic, 1.1g (½ tsp) ground red pepper, 6g (1 tbsp) sesame salt, 0.3g (⅛ tsp) ground black pepper, 8 g (2 tsp) sesame oil
Preparations
1. Wash the non-glutinous rice and glutinous rice cleanly, soak in water for 30 min., drain water on a strainer for 10 min. (non-glutinous rice 440g, glutinous rice 110g).
2. Wash the black bean, soak in water for 3 hours drain water on a strainer for 10 min (63g).
3. Skin the chestnuts, cut into 2~4 pieces. Wipe the jujube with damp cotton cloths, cut the flesh round, divide into 2~3 pieces.
4. Skin the cultivated pine mushrooms, slice it into 0.7cm-thick, maintaining the mushroom shape.
5. Preheat the frying pan and oil, stir-fry the gingko for 2 min. on medium heat with rolling, skin off. Remove tops of pine nuts, wipe the nuts with dry cotton cloths.
6. Wash the ginseng cleanly, remove the head part, cut into 2cm-long and 0.7cm-thick round.
7. Blend seasoning sauce.
Method
1. Put the non-glutinous rice, glutinous rice, black bean, chestnuts, cultivated pine mushrooms, ginseng and water into the stone pot, heat it up for 10min. on high heat. When it boils, continue to boil for another 3 min.
2. Lower the heat to low, add the jujube, gingko and pine nuts, boil it for 10 min. Turn off the heat, steam it for 10 min. for well-done.
3. When the rice is well-done, mix them thoroughly. Put in a bowl and serve with seasoning sauce.
That is it, it really is not that hard and even if you do find it hard think of all the health benefits from this one dish. The ginseng and roots in the dish will help your body fight the cold winter, especially since even Seoul is reaching the minus-degrees.
I hope that with this dish you can all stay health and warm this winter. Take care until my next post, hopefully after Monday when my exams have finished. Fighting!!
건강을 유지하시기 바랍니다!!
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