Budae jjigae(Army stew)

At first, you may wonder why the name of stew is army. It is not wrong translation. Korean name “Budae jjigae” means literally “Army stew”. Actually, this stew related with U.S. army which based on South Korea. Right after truce the Korean War in 1953, Korean people had little to eat. So, people around U.S. military area like Uijeongbu, started to make a soup with leftover Spam, sausage, and can beans from U.S. military. At that time it called ‘Johnson soup’ named for President Lyndon B. Johnson.

It made from sad history but it became popular because it is quite delicious and easy to make. This soup is representative food of Uijeonbu city. It tastes spicy and clear. The point of making this soup is you can put whatever you want. Any vegetable and any meat can make this soup better. Today, I will introduce simple version of Budae jjigae.

Main ingredient (5 serving) 

2 1/2 cups of Water 
1 bottle of Kimchi 
1 can of Spam 
A half pack of sausage 
1 onion 
1/4 can of beans 
1 Chili pepper 
1 pack of instant ramen noodle 
1 green onion 
2 spoons of oil 

–Seasoning 

1/2 spoon of salt 
1/2 spoon of black pepper 
1 1/2 spoons of chili powder 
1 spoon of chopped garlic

Let’s Yori!

“Budae jjigae”

    1. Slice Spam and onion.

2. Heat the pot and oil it.

3. Put Kimchi in the pot and stir it. (Watch out for burning.)

4. Pour water in the pot and Put onion and Spam.

5. Boil it and add chili pepper.

6. Add chopped garlic.

7. Put all the seasoning.

8. Add sausage, beans, and instant ramen noodle.

9. Boil it until every ingredient cooked. (About 15~20minutes)

10. Put greens onion and boil for 3 minutes.

11. Enjoy with rice!

Steamed egg

Foods made from eggs are various such as omelet, scrambled egg, and egg salad. In Korea, steamed egg is most common side dish for every meal because it is easy to make and depends on what you put inside, you can make various taste. Also it is healthy because we don’t need to put oil in it and just need to steam.  If you are in busy situation with empty stomach, and you don’t have time to chop vegetables, you can just beat some eggs and put water in the bowl and microwave it 3 min. It is tasty enough! But today, I will introduce most tasty version of steamed egg.

Main Ingredients 
3 eggs 
1/3cup of water 

-Vegetables 
2 Mushrooms 
1 Green onion
1/4 of Onion 
*Option : 1 strip of crab meat 

-Seasoning 
1/2 spoon of salt 
1/4 spoon of black pepper 

-Necessary tool 
Bowl for microwave

 

Let’s Yori!

“Steamed egg”

1.      Beat the eggs into the bowl.

2.      Put a little bit of water.

3.      Mix eggs and water well.

4.      Slice crab meat and Chop mushrooms, onion, and green onion.

5.      Put ingredients in the bowl.

6.      Season egg mix with salt and black pepper.

7.      Mix everything well.

 

8.      Microwave it for 3 min.

 

Beef onion soup

Do you remember “Dried Pollack soup“? It is a Korean famous hangover soup. Today, I will introduce one more hangover soup. Ingredients of today’s soup are easier to find around you. It is also good as a daily soup.

Ingredients 

1 spoon of oil 
4 cups of water 
200g of beef 
1 onion 

-Seasoning 

Chopped garlic 
2 spoons of soybean sauce for soup 
1/4 spoon of salt 
Little bit of black pepper 
(*option: chili pepper powder)

Let’s Yori!

“ Beef onion soup”

1. Put beef in the cold water to remove the blood for 20-30 minutes

2. Cut the beef as a bite size.

3. Slice onion to be little bit thick.

4. Heat and oil the pan and stir the beef.

5. When beef turned to brown, put onion, and stir again.

6. Before beef turn into golden brown, add water, and boil it until onion get transparent color.

7. Put all the seasonings, and boil 20 minutes. (If you want more spicy taste, add chili pepper powder.)

Soybean paste soup

I think there are two most popular soups in Korea. One is Kimchi soup the other is soybean paste soup. But when I cook them in dorm, I am afraid of smell. The smells of those soups are can be thought as stink to western people. However, if you taste it, it beyond your imagination! It is really good! So, if you were brave enough, let’s try it!

 

Ingredients 

5 cups of water 
1 potato 
1 onion 
5 mushrooms 
1/2 zucchini 
1/2 firm tofu  

-Anchovy Stock 

1 slice of dried kelp 
5 dried anchovies 

-Seasoning 

3 spoons of soybean paste 
1/2 spoon of red pepper paste 
1 spoon of chopped garlic

 

Let’s yori!

Anchovy stock

1. Heat a pot and roast anchovies.

2. Put the sliced kelp and add 5 cups of water and boil.

3. Bring to boil, remove kelp and anchovies from the stock.

Soybean paste soup

 

1. Slice onion and mushrooms, cut zucchini and potato as a half circle, and cut the tofu as a bite size.

 

 

 

2. Put all the vegetables in the boiling anchovy stock.

 

3. Put soybean paste and red pepper paste, and soften with water.

4. Add chopped garlic.

5. Add tofu in the soup.

 

6. Boil it for 20 minutes and eat with rice!

 

Tofu egg fritter

Tofu is one of the healthy food. It has low calories and full of protein. When you are too lazy to make good food, let’s make this simple and easies fritter! you need only tofu, egg, and onion. you can make it in 10minutes.

Ingredients

½ tofu
¼ onion
2 eggs
3 spoons of flour

-Seasoning
½ tablespoon of salt
¼ tablespoon of black pepper

Let’s yori! 

Tofu egg fritter

 

1. Mash tofu in the ball.

2. Chop the onion and put it in the ball.

3. Add 2 eggs in the ball and mix with tofu and onion.

4. Season with salt and black pepper.
5. To form it, put little bit of flour.
6. Heat the pan and oil it.

7. Put the tofu mix on the pan into small circles.
8. Flip it when one side becomes golden brown.
9. Plate it and enjoy with the ketchup!

 

Dried Pollack soup

After Thursday night drinking, what do you usually eat? I heard some countries drinking tomato juice or soup, taking pill to get over the hangover, or eat pizza and bread. In Korea, we usually eat hangover soup. Today, I want to introduce Dried Pollack soup which is one of famous hangover soup. It is called 북어국(Buk-uh-guk) in Korean. It is a mild soup so you can eat it whenever you soothe your stomach even without hangover.

Ingredients 

 A handful of dried Pollack slices
 Sesame oil or vegetable oil
 2 eggs
 1 green onion (chopped)
 20oz (600ml) of water

 *Option: ½ onions (sliced)

 -Seasoning
 ½ spoon of salt
 ½ spoon of black pepper
 1 spoon of soy sauce
 1 spoon of chopped garlic

Let’s Yori!

“Dried Pollack soup”

1.Heat and oil the pot.

2.Put dried Pollack slices on the pot and stir.
2-1. If you want, you can add sliced onion.

3.Before Pollack is burnt, put water and boil.

4.Mix eggs and chopped green onion in the bowl.

5.When soup is boiling put ‘step 4’.

6.Put salt, soy sauce, black pepper, and chopped garlic to season.

7. Boil it and plate!

Stirred potato

Ordinary Korean meal contains rice, soup, and three side dishes. Today, I want to introduce simple and common Korean side dish. It is stirred potato in Korean it is called Gamja-bokeum. The ingredients are simple and it takes only about 5-10 minutes.

Ingredients

- Vegetables
1 potato
½ onion
½ carrot

- Seasoning
1 spoon of salt
½ spoon of black pepper
1 garlic

Let’s Yori!

“Stirred potato”

1. Cut potato, carrot, and onion into the thin strips about 0.5~1cm.
2. Chop the garlic.

3. Put the potato into cold water or salt water to remove starch about 5 minutes.
4. Heat the pan and oil it.

5. Stir the potato and carrot first with medium heat and add onion when the potato and carrot got little bit soft.

6. Put salt, black pepper, and garlic to season.
7. When every vegetable fully cooked, plate it.

 

 

 

Welcome to Korean Yori

   Hello, I am a student who is studying in Thibodaux. However, I am an exchange student from Korea. The most difficult thing to adapt to if you go abroad is the food. I am enjoying gumbo, beignets, and crawfish here, but still want to eat Korean food as a meal.

   It is hard for me to make Korean food here. The Oriental market is in New Orleans which is one hour from my place and I don’t have a car to go there often. So I needed to get ingredients from near places and I found them! I know there are many Korean exchange students who want to eat Korean food in the USA and I saw some American people interested in Korean food. I am not a professional, but want to share my simple Korean recipes you can make easily. In Korea, we call cooking ‘Yori’.

Let’s Yori!