KOREAN FOOD REVIEW & RECIPE - PAKOC
Korean Recipes & Food Reviews : Discover Authentic Korean Cuisine with PAKOC
Easy Korean home-cooking recipes from PAKOC: bibimbap, kimchi-jjigae, bulgogi, japchae, and weeknight K-meals. Step-by-step instructions, authentic Korean ingredients, and tips for adapting Hansik dishes in any kitchen.
Today’s recipe is a filling one-bowl meal: a soy-braised mackerel rice bowl. Boneless mackerel gets a light dusting of frying flour and is cooked until crisp, then simmered in a soy-based sauce and set on top of rice. It’s a simple home-style dish with deep savory flavor and no fishy smell, and the rice practically … Read more
Kimchi-jjim, well-fermented kimchi braised slowly with pork, is classic Korean comfort food. Today I’m making a super-easy Pork Belly Kimchi Jjim where thick slices of pork belly are rolled up inside kimchi leaves. Apart from rolling the kimchi, you just put everything in one pot and let it simmer, so it’s simpler than it looks. … Read more
Kimchi and tomato sauce might sound like an unlikely pair, but they have more in common than you’d think: both are tangy, savory and full of depth. Today’s recipe is Kimchi Tomato Pasta, a fusion dish where crunchy, tangy kimchi is stir-fried until savory and then simmered with arrabbiata tomato sauce. The fermented depth of … Read more
Hello! Today’s pork belly recipe is something a little special: Honey Garlic Soy Samgyeopsal. Samgyeopsal is Korean pork belly, and here it gets seared until crisp, then coated in a sweet-savory honey garlic sauce made from just three things: honey, dark soy sauce and minced garlic. Everything happens in one pan. Crisp outside, juicy inside, … Read more
Hello! Today’s recipe is an easy, homestyle version of spicy kongnamul gukbap, a fiery Korean soybean sprout soup with rice. One of its best features is how flexible it is. You don’t have to stick to any one regional style, so you can simmer it at home and riff on it however you like. A … Read more