[Korean]Red Pepper Paste Bok-kem

Red Pepper Paste Bok-kem
 Korean Name : go-choo-jang bok-kem
 Red Pepper Paste : go-choo-jang


Ingredients [click here for details]
1 can of tuna
1/2 cup red pepper paste
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 onion, chopped
2Tbsp honey
1Tbsp sesame seed oil
1 Tbsp black sesame seeds

Cooking Instruction
1. Stir-fry tuna with sesame seed oil on a hot skillet.


2. Add miced garlic, chopped onion, 2 Tbsp of honey. Fry till the water which comes from onions dries off.


3. Add 1/2 cup of red pepper paste on a pan.


4. Mix a little bit of sesame seeds.

***Instead of tuna, you can use the same amount of pork or beef.

How to Serve
This is good sauce for making 'mixed' rice, bibimbop.
You can add and mix this sauce to plain steamed rice, too.

[Korean] Delicious Ssam-jang

Delicious Ssam-jang

Ssam-jang is dipping sauce, you add on your ssam.

Using comercial ssam jang product, you can make your own better ssamjang.
When you don't have comercial ssam jang product, you can mix 2 Tbsp of red pepper paste and 1Tbsp of soy bean paste, this substitute might be even better.




Mix followings. ( You can add or omit some ingredients, create your own.)

2Tbsp ssam jang
4Tbsp onion, chopped
3-4Tbsp curshed walnuts
2 cloves of chopped garlic
1Tbsp Green Onions, chopped
1Tbsp of green pepper or carrots or celery
1t sesame seeds
1.5 Tbsp sesame seed oil