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[annabel]

Does anybody have any good recipes to share for those of us here in Korea? If I've missed a past thread regarding this topic, sorry to bring it up again!

I'm bored with the stuff I usually make at home and could use some new ideas...

Yummy and fast and not too expensive would be good... Korean or otherwise, doesn't matter. I just recently got a toaster oven which makes things easier.

Thanks!

[annabel]

Here's a couple I've been using a lot that I'm tired of now but other people might appreciate. Some ingredients are hard to find but they're out there! Check Lotte Department grocery stores, Emart, HomePlus, Walmart and Carrefour.

Chicken and Mustard Casserole

Ingredients:

chopped chicken breast or boneless chicken pieces
olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 leek, sliced
1 clove garlic, chopped
mushrooms, sliced
chicken stock (approx. 2 cups, or more if needed)
2 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp Dijon or whole-grain mustard
3/4 cup cream
1/2 tsp dried tarragon (if you have it)

-Heat some oil in a pan and cook chicken until golden, set aside.
-Fry onion, leek, garlic and mushrooms in a bit more oil until soft.
-Add stock, cream, lemon juice and mustard, bring to a boil, and cook for a couple minutes.
-Add chicken, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes more.
-You can add a little more stock if you want it more liquid, or not if you prefer it thicker.
-Serve over boiled/mashed potatoes, pasta or rice.


Curried Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients:

Noodles (any will do but I like linguine)
olive oil
chopped chicken breast or boneless pieces
1 onion, sliced
1 small red chili, seeded and finely chopped
1 tbsp chopped ginger
2 tbsp curry powder
chicken stock (approx. 3 cups but you can always add more little by little if it's getting low- keep tasting to make sure it's not too much- remember you'll be adding coconut milk later on too)
3 1/4 coconut milk
baby bok choy, chopped (or spinach, or any vegetable, really... peas, eggplant, potatoes, carrots, etc.)

-Cook noodles and set aside.
-Heat some oil and cook chicken until golden, set aside.
-Heat a bit more oil and cook onion until soft, add chili, ginger, curry powder and fry 2 min.
-Add chicken stock and any hard vegetables and bring to boil.
-Reduce heat and simmer 20 min.
-Add chicken and coconut milk and simmer 10 min.
-Add bok choy, spinach or any other softer vegetables if using and cook 3 min.
-Place some noodles in a bowl and ladle in soup on top.

*important: do not store noodles in same container as soup or else the noodles will soak up all the liquid and you'll get a soggy pasta mush instead of soup! Better to cook as much as you need for each meal and add them before serving.

[seoulsista]

Pork Fried Rice (kind of)
Cook rice in a rice cooker or use the already cooked store bought stuff and add some oil to it in a pan. Fry it on high heat until it gets kind of crunchy and fried in places. Add chicken or pork and onions and peppers and sautee it for 10 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.

Do you have spices from home and a costco membership. If so I have lots more and they're better than this one.

[peppermint]

Pasta with fresh tomato sauce ( best thing ever on a hot day!)

1.boil pasta

2.chop a tomato or two, and some garlic.

3.Throw tomato, garlic, a little salt, pepper and basil into a blender for just a sec

4.pour it over the pasta.

[annabel]

[Son Deureo!]

Ratatouille. This is a great, healthy dish from southern France. It goes very well as a side dish with rice and fish or chicken. Most of the Koreans I've served it to have enjoyed it as well.

The great thing about this dish is that all of the ingredients except the olive oil can be gotten at a traditional outdoor market/시장, as well as at a grocery store. The 시장 would be cheaper, of course.

You need:

1 kilo of very ripe tomatoes, cherry tomatoes work well for this (or a 28 oz. can of peeled sliced tomatoes if you have it)
4-6 eggplants
1 large onion
3 bell peppers/capsicums
two zucchinis/애호박 (if you can get two different kinds, the pale green and the dark green, even better)
1/4 cup of olive oil
at least 1 tbsp minced garlic
add basil, oregano, and thyme if you have them, if you don't, it's all good

Chop the tomatoes, peel them if you like (I don't bother)
Peel the eggplants, chop them into cubes
Dice the onion
De-seed the peppers, cut them into wide strips
slice the zucchinis

Sautee the garlic and onions in the olive oil in a large saucepan, then add the eggplant and stirfry until coated with oil. Then add the tomatoes and let them cook down. Add the peppers and zucchini. Cook until the peppers and zucchini are thoroughly cooked, but not mushy.

Top with parmesean cheese if you have it.

[chipotle]

because of the lack of western breakfast foods in the country, here's the best pancake recipe ever:

1 egg
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp oil
1/2 cup milk
1 cup flour

mix everything but the flour together, then slowly add flour in. if it's too runny, add more flour, if it's too thick add more milk.

cook over a heated griddle (medium heat should do it)- flip when air bubbles appear on the surface and pop. the pancakes are done when they spring back up after being pressed.

that's the basic recipe, but they're even better if you can add cinnamon, vanilla, or fruit to the batter.

[Milwaukiedave]

Thanks everyone...keep those recipes coming. I might even try the pancake recipe this weekend.

[seoulsista]

Well if you have a costco membership and you don't mind eating moderately healthy food then my suggestions would be:

Meatballs
Hamburger (cheap from costco)
Classico basic marinara sauce (not good on it's own but delicious in this recipie)
basil
oregano
mined garlic
rosemary

Roll the meat and spices (except rosemary) into balls
cook in the sauce with rosemary for upto an hour on 175 degrees celcius

put on spaghetti or sourdough rolls from costco

Fajitas
chicken breast
wraps and sour cream (from costco)
onions
peppers
fajita seasoning (from home)

cut up the ingrediants
add seasoning
put in a frying pan low-med heat

Borsch my personal favorite
3 slices bacon, diced
1 cup chopped yellow onions
1 carrot, peeled and grated
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 quarts water (8 cups)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 1/2 pounds red beets, greens tops removed, roasted and grated
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 large russet potato, peeled and diced
6 cups shredded green cabbage
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup sour cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- place the beets on a baking sheet and brush with the oil. Roast about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let sit until cool enough to handle, grate and set aside.
- fry the bacon
- to the fat in the pan, add the onions and carrots, and stir to coat. Cook until soft, about 4 minutes.
- Add the garlic, oregano, and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
- add the beets, potatoes, and cabbage. Simmer over low heat for another 30 minutes. Season with additional red wine vinegar, salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste.
- add sour cream to your preference

Chili
red beans
hamburger
chili seasoning
onions
tomato paste
- put it all in a crock pot or large pot
- cook on lowest temp. (for crockpot) or two hours on low heat for stove

None of them are things I personally came up with and I can't give you exact numbers because I (OK my boyfriend - to be truthful) just kind of makes it by eye.

[kiwigirl :O)]

satay vegetables (you can add beef or chicken if you want)

this is easy to cook and very quick

this is all cooked in one decent size frypan so its saves on the washing up!!

(for one person)
2-4 brocolli florets
2-4 cauliflower florets
1/2 carrot
1/4 zucchini/courgette
some finely slice onion
1 clove of garlic or 1 tspn minced garlic
1 nob of ginger
1 tablespoon peanut butter (i add a bit more though i like the peanutty taste)
a 1/4 cup of coconut milk if you like
pepper and salt to taste
soy sauce (about 2 or 3 shakes)

place a drop of olive oil in the frypan and add the garlic and ginger and brown off add the veges and cook until brown (i like my veges crunchy still) lastly add the soy sauce peanut butter and some water to make the sauce and heat through and voila serve!! enjoy

you can also serve on a carbohydrate bed...er i mean rice or udon noodles

[discostar23]

I don't know what to call this but it sure is a hit when cooked.

Take a chicken breast and butterfly it (cut in half but not all the way so it opens up and looks like a butterfly ) then add some cheese.(best cheese is either a jalapino (sp) cheddar or a garlic cream cheese).

then put in a pan and cover it with italian dressing. Don't turn the pan on too high as it will burn quick. Wait until one side is slightly cooked, flip it then put a lid on it. The italian dressing will keep the chicken breast moist and the cheese will melt so you have some yummy goodness. I usually serve with some garlic/basil mashed potatoes...enjoy.

Also if you are able to pick up some pesto (usually at hannam market or hyundai dept. stores) add some to a little mayo and use to make club sandwich wraps...

enjoy

[pocketfluff]

Very healthy recipe involving chicken and balsamic vinegar:

Ingredients:
- 4 parts uncooked, de-boned chicken
- 2 parts sliced onions
- 1 part sliced mushrooms
- 1 part balsamic vinegar (or enough to make sure the chicken's not being burnt)
- salt to taste

Just throw everything together on high heat, and top it onto a serving or rice or vegetables.

[Noureli]

I don't know if you like seafood but I have a couple of good recipes. So here you go:

500to 600grams of Shrimp

500 grams of tomatoes

2 lemons

small bowl of finely chopped parsely

2 finely chopped chilies

tablespoon of finely chopped garlic

1 teaspoon of white pepper

salt

one teaspoon of paprika:

olive oil

first saute the parsely, garlic, chilies and juice from one lemon. Then add finely chopped tomatoes, paprika, white pepper, salt, and some garlic powder. Cook until the tomatoes are cooked, then add the shrimps amd the juice from the other lemon and add a bit more parsely. Excellent with French bread and Rose wine. I'm at work now but I will give a good recipe for Tajine later on.

[periwinkle]

Nice recipes on here! I'm totally going to make the chix soup and chix casserole. I have to hit the grocery store before trying them out, so tonight I'm making beef stoganoff:


Ingredients:
1 1/4 pound fillet mignon or fillet of beef -- sliced
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 pound mushrooms -- sliced
1 1/2 tablespoon shallots or green onions -- minced
1 medium onions, to taste - optional -- sliced
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 cup sweet sherry (YOU CAN USE BEER INSTEAD)
1 can beef broth
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup sour cream


Directions:

Slice meat thin, about 2"x2" (it is easiest to slice real thin by partially freezing the meat first) - be sure ALL fat is trimmed off. Heat 1 Tbsp. of butter and 1/2 Tbsp. oil in a large frying pan. Saute the mushrooms over medium heat for about 3 minutes. Add the onions and/or shallots, saute 2 minutes more. . .remove ALL from skillet.

Heat remaining butter and oil, until it bubbles, then add the meat and brown. Remove the browned meat from the pan. Put the flour in the pan and mix in with the oil in the pan until well blended. Gradually add the sherry and the beef broth, being sure the mixture is SMOOTH. Cook over high heat and turn to medium-high and cook down 1/2.

Add meat and season (to taste) and add the mushrooms/onions. Cook over medium-low heat about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. JUST BEFORE serving stir in sour cream. DO NOT ALLOW TO COME TO A BOIL- it will curdle. Serve over noodles. (egg noddles are best, but impossible to find here- unless you have a buddy on base)

NOTES : You can use beer in place of sweet sherry if you don't have any.

*This recipe is from CD kitchen. It's rated 5 stars. I've made it before, and it's really, really, really good*

Btw- don't add too much flour to beef stroganoff, because it'll get too thick and sticky, and that's just nasty....

[formerflautist]

I like to make my bugolgi and veggie and rice dish. This is for those who hate to cook.

Buy the pork that's already marinated and cook. I like to add kimchi and/or onions and garlic also. You can then add rice. I buy the individual bowls and heat in the microwave. I then mix it all together. Simple, simple, simple.