13 Popular and Healthy Korean Food Recommendations, Can Be Your Choice for Daily Meal Ideas

Kapanlagi.com - Korea is not only popular with dramas and K-Pop idols, but also with its culture and food. That's why there are many Korean restaurants that we can find in Indonesia. In addition to serving snacks, these restaurants also serve heavy meals such as noodle dishes, rice, and barbecue. However, now you can make popular Korean food recommendations yourself.

This is because, often Korean food sold in Indonesia has a quite expensive price if used as daily food. But don't worry KLovers, you can make these popular Korean food recommendations at home with a cost that is not too expensive. Even some of these Korean food recommendations are very easy to make.

Curious about popular Korean food recommendations that are easy to make? Here are 13 Korean food recommendations that can be your daily meal ideas. Let's check it out KLovers.

1. Tteokbokki

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The first recommended Korean dish is tteokbokki with rice flour as the main ingredient. Tteokbokki is one of the popular Korean snacks not only in South Korea but also internationally. Tteokbokki has become one of the snacks that are almost consumed by Korean people in any condition.

Initially, tteokbokki was a sweet rice cake, but over time, tteokbokki finally had a spicy taste that is popular until now. Its texture, which is similar to cilok, makes tteokbokki not too unfamiliar to Indonesian people. Let's try to check how to make simple tteokbokki at home.

Ingredients needed:

- 250 grams of rice flour

- 3 tablespoons of tapioca flour

- enough hot water

- enough salt

- enough cooking oil

Sauce ingredients:

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 2 tablespoons of gochujang

- 2 shallots

- 2 bird's eye chilies

- 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

- enough pepper

- enough salt

- enough cooking oil

How to make it:

1. First, mix tapioca flour, rice flour, and salt. Stir until evenly mixed while pouring hot water little by little until the dough can be kneaded by hand.

2. Then knead the tteokbokki dough and shape it into a long shape with a thickness of about 1 cm. Then cut it according to your taste.

3. Boil the tteokbokki dough in water that has been given a little cooking oil so that it doesn't stick.

4. If the tteokbokki rises to the surface, lift it out of the pot and drain it.

5. Mash the garlic, shallots, and bird's eye chilies, then sauté with a little cooking oil until fragrant.

6. Add the gochujang paste, add a little water, sugar, salt, and pepper, then stir until smooth.

7. Add the tteokbokki, then stir until well combined while adding sesame oil.

8. Serve the tteokbokki on a plate. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and scallions.

2. Ginseng Chicken Soup

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Do you like chicken soup? Then you must try Korean ginseng chicken soup. Not only does it taste delicious, but it is also healthy. For those of you who love Korean dramas, you must be familiar with this chicken soup. Here's how to make Korean-style ginseng chicken soup:

Ingredients:

- 1 small whole chicken

- 8 chestnuts

- 2 stalks of green onions, sliced

- 1 piece of ginger, peeled and sliced in half

- 2 dried ginseng roots

- 9-10 dates

- 8 cloves of garlic, peeled

- 1/4 cup of rice, soaked

- Salt and pepper to taste

- 2 liters of water

Instructions:

1. Remove excess fat from the chicken but do not remove the skin, then wash it thoroughly.

2. Stuff the chicken with rice, chestnuts, and garlic. Secure with toothpicks.

3. Prepare a pot, put in the chicken, ginseng, dates, ginger, and water. Cook over medium heat until boiling.

4. After boiling, reduce the heat and cook for about 1.5 hours until tender.

5. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir well.

6. Korean-style ginseng chicken soup is ready to be enjoyed.

3. Korean Fried Chicken

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Are you a fan of Korean dramas? You must be familiar with the combination of chicken and beer. Yup! Fried chicken is very popular in Korea as a drinking companion. Usually, fried chicken is served when gathering with friends, or to accompany someone at night. Of course, there are also many fried chicken restaurants in Korea, even in almost every region there are fried chicken restaurants.

Usually, fried chicken is eaten with white radish kimchi and beer. If there are children under the age of 18, then the beer will be replaced with soda. Because it is very popular in Korea, Korean fried chicken has become a sought-after food by many drama and K-Pop lovers. And here's an easy way to make Korean fried chicken if you want to make it at home. Let's check it out.

Ingredients needed:

- 1/2 kg chicken wings

- 4 tablespoons wheat flour

- 1 tablespoon rice flour

- 1 tablespoon cornstarch

- 1 teaspoon baking soda

- Pepper

- Salt

- Granulated sugar

- 3 cloves garlic

- 2 tablespoons tomato sauce

- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce

- 4 tablespoons chili sauce

- 2 tablespoons honey

- 1 teaspoon lime juice

How to make it:

1. First, clean the chicken and add a little salt, pepper, and cornstarch.

2. Then mix well and let it marinate by leaving it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

3. Mix the wheat flour, rice flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, and pepper, stir until well combined.

4. Then put the chicken into the flour mixture, and mix until the chicken is fully coated.

5. Heat oil, then add the flour-coated chicken and fry until crispy. It's even better if fried twice.

6. After that, sauté the garlic until fragrant, then add tomato sauce, oyster sauce, chili sauce, honey, pepper, sugar, and salt.

7. Finally, add lime juice and stir again. Then add the chicken and stir briefly, then remove from heat.

4. Kimchi Sujebi

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There is also another Korean dish recommendation, kimchi sujebi. This food is a type of soup based on kimchi and gochujang that is commonly eaten by Korean people. However, this is different from kimchi jjigae, KLovers.

This is because there are dumplings in the soup. Yes, the dumplings in kimchi sujebi are made from wheat flour dough torn by hand, then boiled with broth until cooked. Now, here's how to make it:

Ingredients (for 2 servings):

- 1 medium-sized potato, diced

- 1 medium-sized onion, sliced crosswise

- 50 grams of kimchi (how to make it can be seen here)

- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped

- 2 tablespoons of kimchi water

- 2 tablespoons of gochujang

- enough fish broth powder

- enough mushroom broth (optional)

- enough sugar

- enough salt

- enough water

Sujebi:

- 70 grams of medium protein flour (all-purpose flour)

- 1/4 teaspoon of salt

- 1 teaspoon of cooking oil

- enough water

Toppings:

- 1 teaspoon of sesame oil

- 1 stalk of green onion, sliced diagonally

How to make:

1. The first step is to make sujebi. Mix the flour, cooking oil, salt, and enough water.

2. Knead with hands until the dough is smooth.

3. Then put it in a plastic bag, tie it, and put it in the refrigerator.

4. The next step is to make kimchi soup.

5. Heat enough water in a pot. Add kimchi, kimchi water, diced potatoes, onions, chopped garlic, and fish broth.

6. Cook for about 10 minutes until boiling.

7. After the soup is cooked, season with gochujang, sugar, salt, and mushroom broth.

8. Take the sujebi dough out of the refrigerator. Pull and stretch it until it is thin, then tear it into pieces using your hands.

9. Boil the sujebi with the soup until cooked, for about 3 minutes.

10. After cooking, add sliced scallions and sesame oil to the kimchi sujebi.

5. Kimbab

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Kimbab is the next popular Korean food that is loved by Koreans and international people. Kimbab is one of the rice dishes that is usually eaten with tteokbokki or ramyeon. Similar to sushi rice, the difference is that kimbab can use any ingredients you have.

You can use any vegetables, meat, crab sticks, or even nuggets. Kimbab is usually sold in the morning to fill the stomachs of workers who haven't had breakfast at home. Of course, making kimbab is quite easy and can be done at home. Let's check it out.

Ingredients needed:

- 1 carrot

- 2 eggs

- 2 bunches of spinach

- 2 sausages

- 1 plate of rice

- Pickled yellow radish (optional)

- 5 sheets of dried seaweed

- 2 teaspoons of sesame oil

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt

How to make it:

1. First, mix 1 plate of warm rice with salt and sesame oil, then stir until evenly distributed. Let the rice cool.

2. Then boil spinach and carrots with a little salted water. Cook separately.

3. Make an omelette with the egg. Then cut the egg into long pieces to match the length of the seaweed.

4. Fry the sausage that has been cut lengthwise, then set aside.

5. Place the nori on top of the bamboo mat, then put the rice on top. And flatten.

6. Arrange the ingredients that you have prepared earlier, starting from sausage, vegetables, eggs, to pickled yellow radish.

7. Then slowly roll the kimbab until it forms a roll. Once it has formed a roll, you can cut it for easy consumption.

6. Maeun Dakbal

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Who said Koreans don't like chicken feet? Koreans love this dish, KLovers. They even have boneless chicken feet dish. Similar to the spicy chicken feet dish in Indonesia, the popular chicken feet dish in Korea is maeun dakbal with a spicy taste. In addition, the red color on the chicken feet with sprinkled scallions and roasted sesame seeds can increase appetite. Here's how to make maeun dakbal.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of chicken feet, cut at the joints

- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce

- 1 tablespoon tomato sauce

- 2 tablespoons chili sauce

- 1 tablespoon chili powder (according to taste)

- 1/2 small cup of remaining water from boiling chicken feet

- salt to taste

- sugar to taste

- finely sliced scallions

- roasted sesame seeds

Ground spices:

- 5 shallots

- 2 garlic cloves

- 4 red chilies

- 9 bird's eye chilies

- 1 cm ginger

How to make:

1. Boil the cleaned chicken feet until tender. Drain and set aside the remaining broth for cooking later.

2. Process the ground spices, then sauté with a little oil until fragrant. Add the chicken feet, then season with oyster sauce, chili sauce, tomato sauce, salt, sugar, and chili powder.

3. Pour in the remaining chicken feet broth, then cook until the liquid dries up. Adjust the taste, then remove from the stove if it's already according to your taste.

7. Bibimbab

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In addition to kimbab, there is also bibimbap, a popular rice dish in South Korea and internationally. This rice dish is so easy, and perfect for those of you who live alone at home. In Korea, bibimbap is usually consumed when someone is too lazy to cook something, and mixes anything that is available with rice.

Bibimbap is indeed a mixed rice that mixes rice with various types of vegetables and side dishes such as meat, dried anchovies, and also kimchi. Its easy and simple way of making bibimbap makes it one of the popular foods in South Korea. Let's check out how to make simple bibimbap.

Ingredients needed:

- 150 grams of white rice.

- 20 grams of beef (can be replaced with chicken or fish)

- 100 grams of zucchini

- 20 grams of carrots

- 20 grams of bean sprouts

- 20 grams of spinach

- 1 egg

- 1 1/2 teaspoons of granulated sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce

- 1/2 teaspoon of sweet soy sauce

- 1/2 teaspoon of mashed garlic

- 1 onion

- 2 1/2 teaspoons of sesame oil

- 2 teaspoons of gochujang sauce

- 1 tablespoon of water

How to make it:

1. First, boil the bean sprouts and spinach. Then drain and add sesame oil and a little salt.

2. Next, sauté carrots using vegetable oil and sesame oil.

3. Then season the beef or chicken that has been cut with soy sauce, sugar, and sesame oil. Then fry.

4. After that, add water, gochujang sauce, garlic, onion, and sesame oil. Then sauté until fragrant and boiling.

5. After all the ingredients are ready, put the rice into a bowl. Then arrange all the vegetables and meat on top of the rice neatly.

6. Once neatly arranged, add gochujang seasoning and top with sunny-side-up eggs. Done.

8. Kimchi Jeon

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Another recommended Korean dish is kimchi jeon. Yes, this dish is a Korean-style pancake with a savory taste. There are many types of kimchi jeon, with fillings ranging from seafood to various types of vegetables. Here is a recipe for kimchi jeon, a pancake made from eggs and scallions seasoned with kimchi.

Ingredients:

- 100 grams of kimchi

- 5 tablespoons of flour

- 2 tablespoons of kimchi juice

- 1 tablespoon of chili powder

- 1 stalk of scallion

- margarine as needed

- water as needed

- salt and pepper as needed

Instructions:

1. Take the green part of the scallion, slice it lengthwise, and set it aside.

2. Mix the flour, salt, pepper, and chili powder. Stir well and add water, then stir until the mixture has a medium thickness.

3. Add the kimchi, kimchi juice, and scallion. Stir again until well combined.

4. Prepare a non-stick pan. Heat the margarine, then pour in the kimchi jeon batter and cook until done.

9. Jajangmyeon

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Jajangmyeon is one of the next recommended Korean dishes that is very popular not only in Korea but also internationally, namely jajangmyeon. This food is a noodle dish that is seasoned with black bean sauce and has a unique taste. Because this noodle dish is quite popular in Korea, it makes jajangmyeon one of the popular foods internationally.

Because the shape is similar to chicken noodles in Indonesia, Indonesian people are very curious about the taste of this noodle dish. Jajangmyeon is usually consumed with yellow radish kimchi and also fried flour-coated meat. Curious about the taste? Let's check out how to make it.

Ingredients needed:

- 1/4 chicken fillet

- 1 small cucumber

- 1/2 potato

- 1/2 carrot

- 2 shallots

- 1 clove of garlic

- 5 bird's eye chilies

- Black bean paste

- Noodles as needed

- 2 teaspoons cornstarch

- Salt to taste

- Sugar to taste

- Seasoning to taste

How to make it:

1. First, grind the shallots, garlic, and bird's eye chilies.

2. After that, dice the cucumber, potato, carrot, and chicken fillet.

3.Saute the ground spices, after fragrant add the chicken. Then saute until the chicken changes color.

4.Then add the potatoes and carrots, and cook until wilted. Then add the cucumber.

5.Then add the black bean paste, stir until smooth and add a little water. Then add sugar, salt, and seasoning.

6. Then add the cornstarch that has been dissolved in water. Then stir until cooked.

7.Pour the cooked sauce over the noodles. And serve.

10. Kimchi Jjigae

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With its appetizing red color and kimchi seasoning, Kimchi Jjigae is one of the must-try Korean dishes. This popular dish is a stew made with the distinctive Korean kimchi broth.

Usually, besides kimchi, it also contains various types of meat. The recipe for kimchi jjigae can vary from one family to another, but the basic broth is always made with kimchi. Here's how to make kimchi jjigae:

Ingredients (for 2 servings):

- 200 grams of meat

- 150 grams of kimchi

- 2 tablespoons of Korean chili powder

- 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

- 1 tablespoon of soy sauce

- 1 scallion, thinly sliced

- 1/2 block of silky tofu

- 2 green chili peppers, thinly sliced

- 500 ml of water

Instructions:

1. Season the meat with salt and pepper. Cut the tofu into bite-sized pieces and slice the kimchi into similar sizes, then set aside.

2. Heat a little oil in a pot, then sauté the meat until cooked. Add the kimchi, garlic, and chili powder.

3. After stirring, cover the pot and let it sit for 1 minute.

4. Open the lid of the pot, then pour in the water. Season with soy sauce. Add the tofu and scallion.

5. Cook until the broth boils and all the ingredients are cooked thoroughly.

11. Jjamppong

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Not only jajangmyeon is a Korean noodle dish. KLovers, there is also jjamppong. Unlike jajangmyeon which has a texture like fried noodles, jjamppong is a soup noodle with many types of seafood. Jjamppong is a popular noodle soup dish in South Korea, especially during cold weather. Usually accompanied by various types of seasonal seafood, such as shrimp and clams.

Ingredients:

- 1 pack udon noodles or yellow noodles

- 3 shitake mushrooms, sliced

- 5 shrimp, peeled and deveined

- 5 green mussels

- 1 squid, sliced into rings

- 1 onion, sliced

- cabbage, thinly sliced

Chili Oil Seasoning:

- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

- 2 tablespoons chili powder

- 2 cloves garlic, mashed

- 1 teaspoon grated ginger

- 1 stalk scallion, sliced

Soup Seasoning:

- 1 tablespoon soy sauce

- 1 tablespoon fish sauce

- 1 teaspoon chicken powder

- 1 teaspoon rice wine/vinegar

- salt to taste

- water as needed

How to Make Jjamppong:

1.Heat the oil in a pot over low heat. Add chili powder, garlic, and ginger, stir well before the oil gets too hot.

2. Add the scallions and stir to prevent the chili powder from burning.

3. Add all the seafood and sauté with the spices for approximately 1 minute. Add a little water if it becomes too dry.

4. Add all the vegetables and pour in enough water to cover the ingredients. Cook until it boils.

5. Add the seasoning and stir well. Cook until it is fully cooked and tastes delicious. Taste test. When it is done, remove from heat.

12. Kimchi Bokkeumbap

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Do you like fried rice? KLovers must try this Korean fried rice. Yes, kimchi bokkeumbap is one of the rice dishes made from kimchi. The way to cook this rice dish is similar to fried rice, KLovers. Only the ingredients are different, but the way to cook it is similar to fried rice. Here's how to make Korean kimchi fried rice or kimchi bokkeumbap.

Ingredients:

- 400 grams of white rice

- 100 grams of white cabbage kimchi, sliced

- 100 grams of meat, sliced

- 1 stalk of spring onion, finely sliced

- 1 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce

- 1/4 onion, diced

- 1 egg, fried sunny side up

- 2-3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil

- 2 teaspoons of sesame oil

- salt to taste

- pepper powder to taste

How to Make Kimchi Fried Rice:

1. Season the meat with sweet soy sauce, chopped garlic, and pepper powder.

2. Saute the meat with vegetable oil in a pan.

3. After cooked, add onion and kimchi, then stir and cook for 5 minutes.

4. Add spring onion and chopped garlic, then cook briefly and turn off the heat.

5. Add white rice, then stir well.

6. Add sesame oil, salt, and pepper to taste. Stir well and remove from heat.

7. Serve kimchi fried rice with sunny side up eggs.

13. Bibimguksu

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And the last Korean dish recommendation is a noodle dish. In Korea, there is a popular noodle dish called bibimguksu. This dish is not much different from bibimbap, except that it uses noodles instead of rice. So, you can enjoy bibimbap with noodle dishes instead of rice. Here's how to make bibimguksu:

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of somyeon (thin Korean noodles)

- 50 grams of kimchi

- 80 ml of kimchi water (1/3 cup)

- 1/2 medium-sized cucumber

- 1 boiled egg

- 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar

- 60 ml of gochujang (Korean chili paste)

- 1 clove of chopped garlic

- 2 teaspoons of sesame oil

- 1 teaspoon of vinegar

- 1 tablespoon of roasted sesame seeds

How to Make Bibim Guksu:

1. Mix kimchi, kimchi water, chopped garlic, granulated sugar, chili paste, sesame oil, vinegar, and roasted sesame seeds.

2. Cut the boiled egg in half and set aside.

3. Peel and slice the cucumber like a matchstick.

4. Boil the somyeon until cooked, then drain. Rinse with cold water to lower the temperature and stop the ripening process, then drain again.

5. Arrange the noodles in a bowl, then pour the sauce on top. Garnish with boiled egg slices and cucumber slices.

That's a popular and healthy Korean dish recommendation. Not only can you buy it, but KLovers can also make various types of Korean dish recommendations themselves. Good luck trying.

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