2010년 3월 25일 목요일

Recipe:Sujeonggwa(수정과)

The color of Sujeonggwa seems like Tea or coffee. But the taste is totally different. It is somewhat hot and spicy because of ginger also tender and sugary. Usually, Korean moms have been prepared Sujeonggwa for healthy kids during chilly and dry season, I mean, the winter time. Among its ingredients, ginger can prevent our body from irritating cold virus and Cinnamon gives us warm flavor when we are shivering with freezing wind. Today, many beverage companies produce traditional Korean dinks as well as Sujeonggwa. Instead of buying tailor-made Sujeongwa, but, why don’t you make your own Sujeonggwa for your sweet folks?

Preparation Time : 15 min │ Cooking Time : 3 hours │ Serves : 25 Cups

▷ Ingredients

20 Dried persimmons, 400g~500g ginger, 2-3 stalks of Cinnamon, 25 cups cold Water, 6 Cups brown sugar, 2Ts pine nuts, 20 pecans

▷ Preparation

① Slice ginger thinly.
② Trim Dried persimmons' seeds. Press persimmon into a flattish square.
③ Place pecan on a flat persimmon and roll.
④ Cut 3 into 5mm width.

▷ Recipe

① Place ginger and cinnamon in a pan.
Pour cold water; simmer over a low heat for about 3 hours.

② Pass ① through a sieve.

③ Add sugar and bring to boil. Remove from heat.

Refrigerate for 12 hours.

④ Pour into glass serving dishes.

Decorate with 5 pine nuts and 3 sliced persimmons for each cup.

2010년 3월 24일 수요일

Recipe:Galbi(갈비)

What is Galbi?
In short, Galbi means, "rib." In Korea, there are three ways to cook Galbi. First, beef rib is usually for grilled rib or stew. Second, there is pork rib for steamed rib. Third, there is chicken rib, which is also steam-cooked, but using whole chicken. Many people love Galbi because it is neither hot nor spicy. For this reason, Galbi is one of the popular Korean dishes. In particular, "LA Galbi" is very famous.

- Preparation Time : 1hour and 20 minutes
- Cooking Time : 12~15minutes, serving size: 3 people


▷ Ingredients


600g beef rib
200g washed lettuce

- Decoration (optional)
1ts ground pine nuts,

- Marinade

4Ts soy sauce, 3Ts sugar,
4Ts chopped leek,1ts chopped garlic
2Ts ground sesame, 2Ts sesame oil
2Ts refined rice wine,ground pepper
3Ts onion juice or pear juice

▷ Recipe

1. Cut rib into 4cm length, removing excess fat.
2. Make small cuts all around the flesh.
3. Combine soy sauce, sugar, chopped leek, copped garlic, ground sesame, sesame oil, refined rice wine, pepper and onion juice (or pear juice) in a bowl. Mix well.)
4. Move rib into a bowl and marinate for 1 hour.
5. Preheat a large frying pan (or a grill) and add marinated rib on the pan.
6. Keep brushing rib all over with marinade juice and cook over medium heat for 5~6minutes each side.
7. Remove from pan; transfer rib to a serving plate.
8. Pour ground pine nuts on rib and serve.
9. Wrap Galbi with lettuce and enjoy!

Recipe:Kimbap(김밥)

- Preparation & Cooking Time: 40 minutes

- Serves: 3

* Ingredient
3 Cups steamed rice
2 eggs, 3TS water, 1ts salt, 1/4ts sugar
1 cucumber , 1/2ts salt
100g ham
100g Pickled radish in Japanese style
3 sheets of laver


* Recipe

1. Cool steamed rice.

2. Diagonally cut cucumbers into long thin slices, mix reserved them with salt.
3. Cut ham and pickled radish into long thin slices.
4. Sift sugar and salt in medium mixing bowl and add combined eggs and water, mix.
5. Pour the mixture (Number ④) onto base of pan.
When top is bubbly and underside is golden, turn over and cook other side. Remove from pan and Cut it into long slices.
6. Toast sheets of laver.

7. Place steamed rice onto center of a laver and spread rice with fingers into a same size of laver. (Remain the upper portion of laver, 2cm)
8. Place other fillings and arrange them on the spread rice.

9. Roll it up and cut into 10 pieces.

Recipe:Zucchini jeon(호박전)

There are a lot of kinds of Jeons (fried vegetables or meat coated with eggs) in Korean food. Hwa jeon(as I previously presented), eggplant jeon, meat jeon, zucchini jeon and you can imagine any kind of jeons! It is relatively easy to make Joen compared to other Korean food. Although you are not familiar with Korean food, you can! Well, you just prepare vegetables, seafood or whatever you like. Dip into flour and egg, then fry. Some jeons are not required to dip into batter, just fry batter in a pan and place little beef or leek slices on it before it is well cooked. Korean traditional holidays, like Chu-seok or Seol-nal, we usually make various sorts of jeons. So even making many jeons in a minute may occur as a post-holiday syndrome!

Preparation Time + Cooking Time : 40 min │ Serves : 3

▷ Ingredients

1 Cup plain flour, 2 eggs, 1 Zucchini, 3 green pepper, named Cheongyang chilli, oil for frying
※Sauce-1Tbsp Soy sauce, 1/2Tbsp Salt, 1tsp Ground sesame, 1tsp Sesame oil, 1Tbsp Chopped leek, 1tsp Red pepper powder

▷ Preparation

① Rinse a zucchini, cut it into 3mm~5mm width
②
Chop Cheongyang peppers.

▷ Recipe

① Mix eggs and chopped pepper.

②Toss zucchini slices into the flour and dip them into eggs, one at a time.

③ Heat a pan. Drop in oil and cook zucchinis.

④ When it turns golden brown, flip it over.

⑤ Mix soy sauce, salt, ground sesame, sesame oil, chopped leek and red pepper powder for sauce.

⑥ Serve Zucchini jeons with sauce.

Recipe:Japchae(잡채)

Japchae is called one of the “Party dishes.” Because it is easily found in Korean party, such as wedding part, Dol party, birthday party, etc.
Japchae is not hard to make, also its
“sweet and salty” taste is attractive. So, it is very suitable for party. As the same way, when Koreans hold a potluck party in other countries; Japchae is always popular among international dishes. Like “Jap” meaning, people who join the party are harmonized in the party, having Japchae.

Preparation Time : 40 minutes │ Cooking Time : 30minutes │Serves: 2~3

▷ Ingredients

50g beef (Marinade for beef:1Ts sugar,1Ts soy sauce,1Ts chopped leak,1Ts chopped garlic, 1/2Ts sesame oil)
5 Pyo-fo mushrooms (Marinade for mushroom:1Ts soy sauce, 1Ts sugar)
1/2 Onion,1/2 Carrot,50g Spinach, 1 egg, 70g Chinese noodle,
1Ts soy sauce, 1/2Ts sugar, Salt, pepper, ground sesame

▷ Preparation

1.Cut beef into 5cm strips.
2.Soak mushroom in salty water in 5 min and parboil in 30 sec.
3.Rinse spinach and parboil in 20 sec. Then cut it in 5 cm length.
4. Boil Chinese noodles in hot water, cut them in half
5. Fry mixed egg then cut it into 5cm strips.
6.Cut onion and carrot in 5cm length.

▷ Recipe

1. Knead beef and marinade.
2. Knead mushroom, soy sauce and sugar.
3. Heat oil in pan. Cook onion, spinach and carrot(as this follow) with salt.
4.Cook beef in a pan. Add mushroom and noodle. Cook slightly.
5. Combine all ingredients in a pan with soy sauce, sugar, ground sesame and ground pepper.
6.Place JapChae in a bowl. Drizzle cut egg.

Recipe:Chicken Juk(닭죽)

Soup is called "Juk" in Korean. Most people think that Juk is only for babies or patients because it is well-digestible food. However, In Josen Dynasty, Kings' appetizer was various kinds of Juk . Moerover, Juk is good for people who go on a diet! One thing more I can say is that there is famous home remedy, when it comes to "Cold" in Western culture. That is "Chicken soup!" But Korean Chicken soup is a little bit differ from normal chicken soup, by reason of ingredients, cooking methods and taste.
There are three ways of cooking chicken juk!

※ The 1st Recipe (It is very similar to make Samgyetang.)

- Preparation Time : 1hour and 30 minutes
- Cooking Time : 2 hours, serving size: 1~2

▷ Ingredients
chicken stock :1~1.5kg chicken, roots of ginseng, 15 Cups water,
5 jujubes, 3 cloves garlic,
2Cups glutinous rice, 1ts finely chopped carrot, 1ts finely chopped leek,
salt, pepper

▷ Recipe

1. Rinse and place rice with clean water in a large bowl, about 1 hour
2. Wash and peel garlic, rinse jujubes. Drain
3. Wash ginseng thoroughly
4. Rinse chicken thoroughly inside and outside.
5. Place chicken, garlic, jujubes and ginseng in a large pan. Add water.
5. Boil over high heat for 10 minutes then cook with lid on over low heat until tender, about 1 hour.
6. Lift chicken out.
After removing chicken from pan and cooling, shred flesh coarsely.
7. Place chicken flesh and rice in a large heavy-based pan.
Add chicken stock.
8. Simmer uncovered for 15 minutes with stirring
9. Serve with finely chopped leek and carrot as decoration.
Add salt and pepper.

Recipe:Bossam Kimchi(보쌈김치)

It is surely that Kimchi is Korea's number one dish. It is proved that Kimchi is good for our health. (You know, Kimchi is the best vaccine to prevent SARS.) Also, people cannot forget its unforgettable taste. There are hundreds kinds of Kimchis out there, depending on each region, each family. Among them, Bossam Kimchi is famous for everyone. "Bossam" refers to wrap something in a cloth. As you know what is Bossam, Bossam Kimchi is "wrapped cabbage with cabbage leaves" and contains various sorts of ingredients from chestnuts to sliced beef or whatever you like. In this month, why don't you make Kimchi and take a big scoop of rice then eat yummy Bossam Kimchi?

Preparation Time : 5 hours│Cooking Time : more than 1hour │Serves: 3~4

▷ Ingredients

5 Chinese Cabbage, 1Cup of salt
Filling-1 Radish, a bunch of parsley, a bunch of leaf mustard, 2 pears, 500g shrimp, 100g ginger, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 Cup of hot pepper powder, 1/2Cup of shredded red pepper, 1Cup of salted shrimp, 1 leek 6 shiitake mushrooms, 1/2Cup of pine-nuts, 10 chestnuts

▷ Preparation

1. Halve cabbage and salt in about 4 hours.Turn cabbage over every 40min.
2. Peel and core out pears.
3. Cut radish and pear into 0.5mm strips.
4. Wash parsley and leaf mustard. Cut them in 3cm length.
5. Remove heads, tails and shell from shrimps.
6. Slit down back of shrimp and remove center vein.
Cut in half. Rapidly soak in brine then rinse and drain.
7. Slice mushrooms into 0.5mm.
8. Peel chestnuts, ginger and pine nuts. Cut thinly strips.
9. Wash leek and cut in 2cm length.
10. Wash garlic and cut in half.

▷ Recipe

1. Wash cabbage thoroughly. Drain.
2. Cut the outer leaves of cabbage which is a cover of Bossam Kimchi.
3. Mix ingredients (radish, parsley, leaf mustard, pear, shrimp, leek, hot pepper powder, garlic, ginger and salted shrimp) with hands until well combined.)
4. Arrange cabbage leaves like a platter.
5. Scoop one Tablespoon of 3.
Spread out side of cabbage leaf with 3. mixture.
6. Sprinkle mushroom, chestnuts and pine nuts over top of mixture before cover with the next leaf.
7. Repeat 5. and 6.
8. Press 2 outer leaves around over seasoned cabbage to enclose.
9. Ferment at least 3 days in 20 degrees in Celsius. And serve.