Vegan Recipe: Mushroom Tteokbokki - Seasoned Rice Cake

Ingredients:

• Rice cakes (360g should serve 2 people)
• Gochujang (pepper paste)
• Soy sauce
• Sugar
• Sesame oil or sesame seed
• Green onion
• Onions
• Minced garlic
• Mushrooms of your choice

*I will not state the specific amount of the rest of the ingredients as they are highly preferential.

1. Soak rice cakes in cold water. The time should depend on what type of rice cake you're using but 20 minutes tops.
2. Mix gochujang, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil/seed, and minced garlic. The ratio depends on preference but I do: 4 parts gochujang, 2-3 parts soy sauce, 1 part sugar, 1-2 part minced garlic, and 1 part sesame oil/seed, 5-6 part water.
3. Chop onions, green onions and mushrooms.
4. Heat oil or water in pan.
5. Sauté the vegetables until onions are translucent.
6. Take out rice cakes from water and cook with the vegetables.
7. Pour seasoning mix and cook until rice cakes are soft
8. Done!

The recipe is rather simple. Usually tteokbokki is made with fish cakes but I used mushroom to substitute for it to make it vegan. The mushroom makes it taste SO delicious, it's probably even better than the fish cakes.



When made with enoki mushrooms :D

Vegan Recipe: Simmered Seasoned Tofu

*Disclaimer: This isn't the healthiest food. As you can tell from the ingredients it's oily and salty. I usually eat pretty healthy but I'm not the type of person that has to eat 100% healthy all the time so...

Ingredients:

• Tofu (duh)
• Green Onion
• Sesame salt (optional)
• Cooking oil
• Soy sauce
• Sesame oil
• Red pepper Powder
• Oligosaccharide syrup (or just sugar)
• Minced Garlic
• Water

Directions

1. Cut tofu and chop green onion. Whatever size you want really.
2. Mix soy sauce, red pepper powder, oligo syrup, sesame oil, minced garlic, and water. ratio - soy sauce 3 : red pepper powder 1: oligo syrup 1 : sesame oil 1 : minced garlic 0.5 : water 5. Using regular spoon that will be enough for 1 block (around 300g)  
3. Medium heat, oil in pan. Cook tofu in pan until both sides are yellowy
4. Pour mixture on them
5. Throw green onion on them and simmer until mixture isn't very watery anymore
6. use some sesame salt to liking

Done! Super simple, right?

Vegan Recipe: Japchae

Japchae is Korean food, kind of similar to Chinese chop suey but a bit different. Also note that this is "simple" version of Japchae, as the original recipe is quite time consuming.

Ingredient:

• Cellophane noodles (aka Chinese vermicelli) (4 cups) * soak this in water for 2 hours before cooking, don't use hot water
• Carrot, cut into thin strips (1 cup)
• Onion, chopped (2 cups)
• mushrooms of your choice, sliced (1-2 cup) * I like to use 1 cup shiitake and 1 cup cloud ear mushrooms but really use whatever mushroom you have
• Bunching onion or scallion (1 cup)
• Sugar (50ml)
• Sesame salt (25ml)
• Sesame seed oil (25ml)
• Minced garlic (25ml)
• Cooking oil (25ml)
• Soy sauce (1 cup)
• pepper
• eggplant (optional)

* Conventionally, beef is used but this is vegan recipe so we will skip that

* The amounts of ingredient is just a suggestion, adjust it to your own liking. To be honest, I just eyeball everything.

Cut all the things!

Medium heat, put oil in pan, then bunching onion (scallion)

Then put carrot, onion, mushrooms, eggplant in the pan.

Use some pepper

When the onion starts to become a little transparent take them out and move everything to another bowl

Put sesame seed oil and bunching onion in the pan

And then minced garlic, soy sauce, sugar

When sugar is melted and the sauce becomes more viscous put in the noodles

Stir for a couple minutes and put in the vegetables we cooked before

Turn off the stove and stir a little bit

Add some sesame seed oil and sesame salt

...Aaaaaand you're done!

You can eat this alone or you can eat this with rice. This is quite oily and probably not the healthiest but it's okay every once in a while :P