5 Popular Korean Foods You Can Make at Home, Here's the Recipe

Kapanlagi.com - Korea is not only popular for its dramas and K-Pop idols, but its culture and food are also well-known. That's why there are many Korean restaurants that we can find in Indonesia. Besides serving snacks, these restaurants also offer heavy meals such as noodle dishes, rice dishes, and barbeque.

However, these foods are often sold at a relatively high price if they are consumed as daily meals. But don't worry, KLovers, there are several Korean foods that are easy to make at home and don't require expensive ingredients.

Curious about what Korean foods they are? According to various sources, here are 5 popular Korean foods that you can make yourself at home. Let's check them out.

1. Tteokbokki

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The most popular Korean food is tteokbokki, which is made mainly from rice flour. 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 consumed by the Korean people in any condition.

Tteokbokki originally was a sweet rice cake, but over time, it has become a popular spicy dish. Its texture, which is similar to cilok (Indonesian street food), makes tteokbokki familiar to Indonesians. Let's check out how to make simple tteokbokki at home.

Ingredients needed:

250 grams of rice flour

3 tablespoons of tapioca flour

hot water as needed

salt as needed

cooking oil as needed

Sauce ingredients:

5 cloves of garlic

2 tablespoons of gochujang (Korean red chili paste)

2 shallots

2 bird's eye chilies

2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

ground pepper as needed

salt as needed

cooking oil as needed

Instructions:

- First, mix tapioca flour, rice flour, and salt. Stir well while pouring hot water little by little until the dough can be kneaded with hands.

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

- Boil the tteokbokki dough in water with a little cooking oil to prevent sticking.

- If the tteokbokki floats to the top, remove it from the pot and drain.

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

- Add gochujang paste, a little water, sugar, salt, and pepper, then stir until well combined.

- Add the tteokbokki and stir until well coated while adding sesame oil.

- Serve the tteokbokki on a plate. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and spring onions.

2. 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, almost in every region.

Usually, fried chicken is eaten together with white radish kimchi and beer. If there are underage children, the beer will be replaced with soda. Because it is very popular in Korea, Korean fried chicken has also 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 all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon rice flour

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 teaspoon baking soda

Pepper

Salt

Granulated sugar

3 cloves of garlic

2 tablespoons tomato sauce

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

4 tablespoons chili sauce

2 tablespoons honey

1 teaspoon lime juice

How to make it:

- First, wash the chicken thoroughly, then add a little salt, pepper, and cornstarch.

- Mix well and let it marinate by leaving it for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.

- Mix all-purpose flour, rice flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, and pepper, stir until well combined.

- Then, put the chicken into the flour mixture and stir until the chicken is fully coated.

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

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

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

3. Kimbab

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Kimbab becomes the next popular Korean food that is loved by Korean people, even internationally. Kimbab is one of the rice dishes that is usually eaten together 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 stomach of workers who haven't had breakfast at home. Of course, making kimbab is quite easy and you can do it 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:

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

- Then, boil the spinach and carrot with water that has been mixed with a little salt. Cook separately.

- Then cook the eggs into an omelette. Then cut the eggs lengthwise to match the length of the seaweed.

- After that, fry the sausages that have been cut lengthwise, then set aside.

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

- Arrange the ingredients that you have prepared earlier, starting from sausages, vegetables, eggs, to pickled radish.

- After that, roll the kimbab slowly to form a roll. Once it forms a roll, you can cut it for easy consumption.

4. Bibimbap

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In addition to kimbab, there is also bibimbab which is 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, bibimbab is usually consumed when someone is too lazy to cook something, and mix anything they have with rice.

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

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 carrot

20 grams of bean sprouts

20 grams of spinach

1 egg

1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce

- 1/2 teaspoon of sweet soy sauce

- 1/2 teaspoon of minced garlic

- 1 onion

- 2 1/2 teaspoons of sesame oil

- 2 teaspoons of gochujang sauce

- 1 tablespoon of water

How to make it:

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

- Next, stir-fry the carrot using vegetable oil and sesame oil.

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

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

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

- Once neatly arranged, add gochujang seasoning and cover with fried eggs. Done.

5. Jajangmyeon

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Another popular Korean food not only in Korea but also internationally is jajangmyeon. This food is a noodle dish with black bean sauce that has a unique taste. Because this noodle is quite popular in Korea, jajangmyeon becomes one of the popular foods internationally.

Because its shape is similar to chicken noodles in Indonesia, Indonesian people are very curious about the taste of this noodle. Jajangmyeon is usually consumed with pickled 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 garlic clove

5 bird's eye chilies

Black bean paste

Noodles as needed

2 teaspoons cornstarch

Salt as needed

Sugar as needed

Seasoning as needed

How to make it:

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

- Then dice the cucumber, potato, carrot, and chicken fillet.

- Sauté the ground spices until fragrant, then add the chicken. Sauté until the chicken changes color.

- After that, add the potato and carrot, and cook until wilted. After that, add cucumber.

- Then add black bean paste, stir until well mixed and add a little water. Then add sugar, salt, and seasoning.

- After that, add cornstarch that has been dissolved in water. Stir until cooked.

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

Those are 5 popular foods not only in South Korea but also internationally, including Indonesia. Even though these foods are very expensive, we can actually make them at home. Enjoy trying it out.

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