Most Popular Korean Foods in Korea with description, main ingredients, and simple recipes.

1. Kimchi

  • Description: A traditional fermented Korean dish made with various vegetables and seasonings.
  • Main Ingredients: Napa cabbage, radish, red pepper flakes, garlic, ginger, fish sauce
  • Simple Recipe: Salt the vegetables, then mix with seasonings and ferment

2. Bulgogi

  • Description: A traditional Korean dish of marinated beef, grilled and enjoyed.
  • Main Ingredients: Beef, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger
  • Simple Recipe: Thinly slice the beef, marinate in the sauce, then grill.

3. Bibimbap

  • Description: A dish of mixed rice with various vegetables, meat, and gochujang (chili paste).
  • Main Ingredients: Rice, vegetables, beef, gochujang
  • Simple Recipe: Prepare vegetables and meat, place on top of rice, add gochujang, and mix.

4. Samgyeopsal

  • Description: A popular Korean meat dish of grilled slices of pork belly.
  • Main Ingredients: Pork belly, lettuce, perilla leaves, garlic, gochujang
  • Simple Recipe: Grill the pork belly and eat wrapped in lettuce or perilla leaves.

 

5. Gimbap

  • Description: A Korean roll made with rice and various ingredients wrapped in seaweed.
  • Main Ingredients: Rice, seaweed, carrot, ham, egg, pickled radish
  • Simple Recipe: Place ingredients on rice, roll in seaweed, and slice.

 

6. Tteokbokki

  • Description: A popular street food of chewy rice cakes in a sweet and spicy sauce.
  • Main Ingredients: Rice cakes, gochujang, sugar, water, fish cakes, green onion
  • Simple Recipe: Boil rice cakes and fish cakes in water, add gochujang sauce, and stir-fry.

 

7. Doenjang Jjigae

  • Description: A stew made with doenjang (soybean paste) and various ingredients.
  • Main Ingredients: Doenjang, tofu, vegetables, water, red pepper flakes
  • Simple Recipe: Dissolve doenjang in water, add vegetables and tofu, and boil.

8. Galbijjim

  • Description: A dish of braised beef ribs marinated and cooked for a long time.
  • Main Ingredients: Beef ribs, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger
  • Simple Recipe: Marinate ribs in sauce, then simmer in water until tender.

 

9. Sundubu Jjigae

  • Description: A spicy stew made with soft tofu.
  • Main Ingredients: Soft tofu, red pepper flakes, vegetables, water, egg
  • Simple Recipe: Make a spicy broth with red pepper flakes, add soft tofu and vegetables, and boil.

 

10. Japchae

  • Description: A dish of stir-fried glass noodles with various vegetables.
  • Main Ingredients: Glass noodles, spinach, carrot, onion, soy sauce, sugar
  • Simple Recipe: Boil noodles, stir-fry vegetables, then mix with seasoning and noodles.