Asian Recipes

⏱ Marinate:2 hrs, overnight 🔥Cook: 10 min 👤Serves: 4 🌡Heat: High Korean bulgogi recipe, thinly sliced ribeye marinated in Asian pear, soy sauce, sesame oil, mirin, garlic and ginger, then cooked in a screaming hot pan until caramelized at the edges and impossibly tender. Bulgogi means “fire meat” in Korean. The name earns itself. Ingredients For the beef For the bulgogi marinade Step by step The thing that makes it Asian pear is the ingredient that separates authentic bulgogi from every imitation. It does three things: its enzymes tenderize the beef, its juice dilutes the soy so the marinade penetrates …

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⏱ Prep: 15 min 🔥Cook: 20 min 👤Serves: 4 🌶Heat: Medium Korean gochujang meatballs are the dinner that converts people who think they do not like meatballs. Juicy beef and pork meatballs baked until golden, then tossed in a sticky glaze of gochujang, honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame oil that clings to every surface. Sweet, spicy, deeply savory. Thirty-five minutes start to finish. Ingredients For the meatballs For the gochujang glaze To serve How to make it The one thing worth knowing Gochujang goes into both the meatball mixture and the glaze, this is intentional. In the mixture …

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⏱ Prep: 10 min 🔥Cook: 20 min 👤Serves: 4 💰Cost: Under $15 Sticky sesame chicken recipe is the Friday night dinner that makes you stop ordering takeout. Boneless chicken thighs cut into bite-sized pieces, coated in seasoned cornstarch, pan-fried until golden and crispy, then tossed in a sauce of honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar, sesame oil, garlic and ginger that reduces in the same pan into a thick, glossy, caramelized glaze that clings to every piece. Thirty minutes. One pan. The sauce is the whole recipe, sweet, savory, slightly tangy and nutty with sesame and it will make …

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⏱ Marinate: 30 min 🔥Broil: 8–10 min 👤Serves: 4 🌡Oven: Broiler high Miso salmon recipe is the dinner that makes every person who eats it ask for the recipe immediately, a caramelized, lacquered glaze of white miso, mirin, sake, soy sauce, honey and sesame oil that coats salmon fillets and turns an eight-minute broil into something that tastes as if it took considerably longer and cost considerably more. This is the dish that made Nobu famous. The version you make at home is genuinely better, fresher fish, no reservation, fifteen minutes from fridge to table. Gather these first To serve: …

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⏱ Marinate: 2 hrs, overnight 🔥Cook: 15 min 👤Serves: 4 🌶Heat: Mild-medium Korean chicken kalbi recipe, dak kalbi is the dish that makes you understand why Korean BBQ has spread to every city on earth that has encountered it. Boneless chicken thighs marinated in a sauce of soy sauce, gochujang, Asian pear, mirin, brown sugar, sesame oil, garlic and ginger, the pear tenderizing the meat while the sugars and gochujang build the sticky caramelized glaze that defines kalbi, then grilled or pan-seared until the outside chars and lacquers and the inside stays impossibly juicy. The marinade takes ten minutes to …

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⏱ Prep: 5 min 🔥Cook: 15 min 👤Serves: 4 💰Cost: Under $12 Korean beef bowl recipe is the weeknight dinner that every home cook eventually discovers and then makes on permanent rotation. Ground beef cooked in a sauce of soy sauce, gochujang, brown sugar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar, sweet, spicy, savory and deeply umami all at once, served over steaming jasmine rice with a quick pickled cucumber salad, a fried egg on top and a scatter of sesame seeds and spring onion. Twenty minutes. One pan. Under twelve dollars for four people. What you need: For the …

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⏱ Soak: 20 min 🔥Cook: 25 min 👤Serves: 2–3 🌶Heat: Medium-hot Tteokbokki recipe, pronounced “ddeok-POKE-ee” is Korea’s most beloved street food and the dish that anyone who has walked through a Korean market has smelled from thirty feet away and followed to the source. Cylindrical rice cakes with a specific chewy, slightly sticky texture that no other ingredient replicates, simmered in a sauce of gochujang, gochugaru, anchovy broth, soy sauce and brown sugar until the sauce reduces to a thick, glossy, deeply spiced coating that clings to every surface. Twenty-five minutes from start to bowl. The kind of addictive that …

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⏱ Prep:15 min 🔥Cook: 15 min 👤Serves: 4 🌶Heat: Adjustable Korean pork belly recipe, samgyeopsal, is the most social meal in Korean food culture and the easiest to recreate at home. Thick slices of pork belly grilled in a cast iron pan until the fat renders into crispy, caramelized layers, snipped into bite-sized pieces with kitchen scissors, then wrapped in a fresh lettuce leaf with a smear of ssamjang, a sliver of raw garlic, a piece of kimchi and a spoonful of rice. One bite. Everything at once. This is what Korean BBQ restaurants have been serving for decades and …

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⏱ Prep:20 min 🔥Cook: 15 min 👤Makes: 10–12 skewers/ Serves: 4 🌡Grill: Medium-high Japanese Chicken Yakitori recipe, Japan’s most beloved street food is the dish that taught me that restraint is a cooking technique. Four ingredients in the tare sauce: soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar. Two ingredients on the skewer: chicken thigh and scallion. The technique is simply basting and turning over high heat until the tare caramelizes into a dark, lacquered glaze that clings to every surface. The result is simultaneously simple and deeply complex, the kind of food that makes you understand immediately why izakaya bars in …

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⏱ Prep:20 min 🔥Cook: 0 min 👤Serves: 4–6 🌿Diet: Vegan option, Gluten-free option Asian crunch salad recipe is what happens when you decide that a salad should actually be satisfying, not a plate of wilted leaves you eat out of obligation but something with so much texture, color and flavor that you want it specifically, on purpose, because it is genuinely the best thing on the table. Shredded green cabbage and purple cabbage, carrots, red bell pepper, edamame, cucumber and snap peas tossed in a sesame ginger dressing of toasted sesame oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce, honey, fresh ginger and …

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