Been watching a ton of the YouTube shorts of Korean office lunches, and tbh they look incredible. Don’t have the budget for trying a whole Korean restaurants menu so wondering if anyone’s got some home cooked favourites I can have a crack at making.
Toppings may include, egg, spring onion, coriander, parsley, bean sprouts, mushrooms, vegetables, fish, chicken, duck, beef, dumplings, whatever is in the fridge.
Assuming you’re living in the southern half of the country, I think jjimdak is pretty good around this time of year when it starts getting colder. Don’t worry too much about specific vegetables or glass noodles or anything like that (unless you want to). Really the core of the dish is the marinated chicken, so if you follow that bit then you can add whatever you want alongside. I like it with white medium-grain rice but that’s also totally up to you.
No, not really. Maybe just start with a simpler one like this where the sauce has fewer and more common ingredients. You don’t even need the fish/oyster sauce - my partner just uses soy sauce, sugar and corn syrup (and sometimes a little corn starch for thickening and chilli for heat). If you don’t already have soy sauce at home, buy some Kikkoman as the flavour is more consistent with Korean cooking. If you buy gochujang as well you can combine that with the soy sauce to make a similar dish - dakbokkeumtang. Just remember to add garlic and spring onion too as they contribute a lot to the flavour of both dishes.
I’ve been wanting to try Tteokbokki for AGES! Sadly any place I’ve been to served it with cheese so I couldn’t eat it. Sadly no luck finding the rice cakes anywhere yet. But thank you I will have another search!
The easiest one I make is Korean fried chicken with goshujan sauce served with kimchi and rice. Super simple to make at home - the sauce is the key and it’s like 5 ingredients mixed and heated.
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