Introduction To Korean Food

Series Summary

Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish made of fermented seasoned vegetables that is often served with rice. The ingredients for kimchi vary widely depending on the cook, but popular recipes include napa cabbage, radish, or cucumber, while seasonings frequently include garlic, scallions, and chili peppers. Kimchi appears to be not only delicious but also quite healthy because of it's vegetable ingredients. It has a high concentration of dietary fiber, and provides 80% of the daily recommended amounts of ascorbic acid and carotene.

Want to make homemade Korean kimchi and rice by yourself? Now you can with this free cooking video series. Our expert will show you the steps for a delicious kimchi recipe, from preparing the vegetables to cooking the rice to serving your homemade kimchi dish. This particular recipe uses cucumbers, but vegetables like cabbage or radish could be used in its place. So take a trip to traditional Korea, and enjoy this delicious kimchee and rice recipe.

Video Transcript

"The main thing to Korean cooking is rice every meal has rice along with the rice we usually serve kimchi you can serve meat you can serve something called pogen which is a bunch of little vegetables and pickled things to go with the rice but always we have rice. I'm going to show you the kimchi which is right here this is store bought kimchi and it looks like this this is Chinese cabbage and it was pickled in a special process and the spiced. This is what we would eat with our rice along with meat or stew or anything like that but mainly rice it's the primary carbohydrate that fills our bellies and makes us feel satisfied. So it's also really important to kind of rice that we use and I'm going to show you that."