ahjummarecipes

One of my favorite meals to order at a Korean restaurant is Kalbi Tang. The key to a good Kalbi Tang is a wonderfully smooth clean tasting beef broth. The short ribs should be fall off the bone, and you will love the taste of this hearty soup! This recipe normally takes about 2 hours over the stove to to make, but the Instant Pot cuts that time in half! Plus I don't have to babysit the stove which incredibly valuable time I can spend watching my kids instead! Quick Notes: ⏲ ~

Bossam, or Korean style Boiled Pork Belly, is a wonderful dish that typically is served with a spicy radish side dish (musaechae) and pickled cabbage wraps. This is not easy to find in Korean restaurants because it normally would take about 2 hrs on the stove top. For that reason most of the time this dish served cold, which it still is delicious, but my preference is to eat this dish warm! The Instant Pot makes it super easy to make this dish at home, in under an hour! While

Kalbi-jjim, or Korean style short rib, always reminds me of the holidays. My mother knows this is my favorite dish, and would make this for special occasions. This dish normally takes hours on the stove to create succulent, tender beef that falls off the bone. The Instant Pot cuts that time down to under an hour cooking time! If you do not own an Instant Pot, here is my stove top version of the recipe. Quick Notes: ⏲ About 1 hr 🇰🇷 Some ingredients may need to be bought at a

When kimchi gets very sour and overripe, it's time to turn it into Kimchi Jjigae! Kimchi Jjigae is a rich spicy stew that is perfect for the fall and winter seasons. It is the ultimate Korean comfort food! This recipe is the Instant Pot version. The advantage of using the Instant Pot for Kimchi Jjigae is that it will make your stew taste like its been on the stove all day even though its been cooking for less than an hour! Be forewarned: this will make your silicone seal smel

I am excited to share my first Instant Pot recipe! I recently bought an Instant Pot on Amazon, and I am in love. I never imagined that cooking delicious foods would be so quick and easy! It is so nice to prepare the food in the Instant pot, then walk away without watching the stove, and a short time later, the food is done! This is my Dak-jjim recipe, or Korean braised chicken stew, which I have adjusted for the Instant Pot. I will be sharing my stove top version of this reci

Dak Galbi is super delicious, spicy, sweet, and perfectly balanced with a pool of mozzarella cheese for dipping! This dish is normally cooked at tableside, with sides of red leaf lettuce or perilla leaves. The rice is served at the end as a wonderful spicy fried rice using the leftover sauce and vegetables when you are done eating the chicken! This recipe calls for a korean sweet potato, which has a red skin and a white flesh. Korean sweet potato is firmer than the traditiona

Korean Fried Chicken is known as the new "KFC." There is something addicting about these crispy wings slathered in a delicious sweet sauce. This dish goes so well with an ice cold beer, that Koreans have coined the phrase "Chi-Maek" or Chi-cken and Maek-ju (beer)! The key to a Korean Fried Chicken recipe is a crispy skin from double frying, and a sweet sauce. These chicken wings are quick and easy to prepare! This recipe is done with two sauces, one is a soy-garlic sauce, and

Mapo Tofu is traditionally a Chinese dish, but Koreans love it so much that they created their own twist to it! Korean Mapo Tofu is generally spicier than its Chinese counterpart. This recipe is great if you need to come up with dinner in a rush. The key is using my special Tofu Soup Base, and dinner is ready in less than 15 minutes! Quick notes: ⏲ <1 hr 🇰🇷 Some ingredients may need to be bought at a Korean grocery or online. 🍆 Vegetarian friendly (use the vegetarian versi

Who doesn’t love Soft Tofu Stew? This bubbly stew is delicious, versatile, and can take you only 10 minutes!! You can add almost anything you want: dumplings, kimchi, seafood, beef, or pork! At a Korean restaurant it is served in a ceramic pot (called a 뚝배기, ttukbaegi) bubbling hot, with a raw egg that you drop in yourself. I have always loved soondubu jjigae, and if you try my recipe you will understand why! In this recipe, I use a pre-made soup base (Tofu Soup Base), so t

Bibimbap literally means “mixed rice”. It’s very popular dish at Korean restaurants, and it is generally a “safe” choice, as it tastes good no matter where you get it from. I like to make this when I am cooking for a large group because people can choose what they want to put in it and make it as spicy as they’d like. Generally the dish is finished with a fried egg on top. I love it when you break the yolk, and the golden liquid runs into the rice! There are many variati