Korean Meals Ideas

Annyonghaseyo! hi all! that's just how Koreans saying hi or hello. Alright then i'm going to share my family favorite Korean meals that i made. Since i started to be more care about myself lol, i love me but i never showed it off, so now on i want to eat properly, eat more veggies and make my own smoothie. If we are healthy, our body tend more easy to shape, we get beautiful and glowing skin, strong hair, always fit, have more energy. We more tend to be productive everyday. Don't be afraid that K-meals will be difficult to make, I am here working so hard to sum up and get a bit creative to make this meals easy to make and affordable. Because my motto is, healthy is not always expensive. We are so lucky living and growing up in Indonesia with nice weather every year. We have many optional vegetables and fruits. As Korean meals  have uncommon ingredients but not to worries we can substitute that hardly to find or expensive, but still taste good and looks similiar. Alright enough with the opening. 

I made Bulgolgi and Kimchi jiggae(stew) for my family dinner... Kimchi is a spicy fermented cabbage dish, it is well known as one of the healthiest food in the world. Health magazine recommended adding Kimchi to our diet daily can help prevent cancer and yeast infection. It also has high source of vitamin A, B and C. So no wonder that Kimchi mentioned as one of the healthiest food in the world. And for the protein i made Bulgolgi, bulgolgi is Korean marinated beef  BBQ, you can grilled on barbecue or made it simple by stir fried in a pan.

Bulgolgi preparation 

1. Thin Siced beef around 500 grams, you can use chicken too! Here i used chuck beef part that i bought at Lotte mart. You can use any part but please be aware of it.

2. Chopped one small yellow onion ( you can used it as many as you like), 3 garlics and minced add a little bit ginger and crushed asian pear.

3. Add soy sauce 3 table spoon, 2 table spoon oyster sauce, 2 table spoon of thick and sweet soy sauce to give a taste. Add salt, pepper and sugar. Give it a taste! and clean your mouth thorughly.

4. Keep in the fridge one night

5. Then you can stir fried the meat the next day.

Kimchi jiggae ingredients

1. 1 pack kimchi

2. Tofu(tahu putih) this is optional, you can add anything you like, like fish cake/fish ball

3. Half medium onion, sliced it.

4. Green onion cut diagonally

5. Chickem or beef stock powder

6. Gochujang ( Korean Chili paste)
7. Sugar and Salt
8. Soy sauce

How to make Kimchi jiggae 

1. I bought kimchi in supermarket around 24 k Rupiah.

2. Cut the kimchi into small pieces.

3. Heat the pot, put a little bit oil.

4. Put the kimchi, onion and green onion.

5. Add water, and put a full table spoon of gochujang.

6. Cover the pot for 10 minutes in medium heat.

7. After ten minutes mix all the ingredients. Add sugar, soy sauce and stock powder. Taste it!

8. Add tofu on the top by laying the tofu over the stew.

9. Cover the pot and cook one more for next 10 minutes with medium heat.

10. Chop 1 green onion and put it on the top of the stew. Serve right away with rice

                                I hope you like it!! Share what you thought about this recipe

Healthy Banana Chocolate Milkshake On The Go

How's your diet going through this holy Ramadhan month? Mine, since I just started my diet programme and workouts ... I feel quite exhausted because I need to adapt to do cardio without a drink. So I shift cardio to yoga to minimize the thirst. Don't push yourself too much, because toning, weight loss need an endless journey, full of fights against all your toxic inside, such procrastinating, bad diet etc. A healthy body and clear skin not coming just in a day. Those need to fight! So are you ready?

Alright in this post I am going to share one of my fave milkshakes or you can make smoothie too just by adding oats, it's totally up to you. This is super tasty, healthy and affordable. I think if I like it, you will like it too. Because my standard taste quite the same with picky eater kids. Love sweet, chocolate and other tasty food and beverage only.  

Okay, first of all, you need these ingredients to be prepared:

1. Soy milk 

You can make it by yourself, buy it in the nearest mini-market. Here I'm still using liquid soy milk. Because my soy milk powder still on the way here, I ordered it from NASA SKA 72 so affordable and full of good nutrients inside to help me fulfil the nutrition for my body. The nutrient such as the monounsaturated fats in the soy milk helps you decrease intestinal and blood and agent of cholesterol absorption. The phytosterol in the soy performs by blocking the fat function which means can help you burning fat. Not only help you lose your fat but also helps your body produce more energy and increase metabolism with riboflavin and vitamin B12 and many other benefits

 2. Cocoa powder

So who doesn't love cocoa? with tons of benefits such as antioxidant, improve your mood, lowering your blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke, in summary, Cocoa is one of the richest sources of polyphenols, It's especially abundant in flavanols, that have rich antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. The taste is also good. I used this Cocoa powder it's simple and cheap for sure.

3. Peanut butter

I use this as a substitute to sugar, it gives more flavour like savoury to the shake. Peanut butter provides a good amount of protein, and other essential vitamin and minerals, such as Magnesium, Potassium and Zinc. As for me, peanut butter is optional. I don't take any protein powder but instead, I take peanut butter.

4. One Banana

Take one banana to complete all the vitamin and minerals that help you fully and energized during the day.

How to make it

1. First of all, pour the soy milk 200 ml then add 400 ml of water.

2. A banana.

3. Add a tablespoon of Cocoa powder.

4. Add a tablespoon of Peanut butter, you can add as you wish, depending on you.

6. Blend it up all into your blender.

Et voila!! your Banana chocolate milkshake ready to go. 

You can keep it in your fridge and have it after breaking your fast or an hour before suhoor😍 Don't forget to subscribe, follow and share my post on your social media. Bye and many thanks to you!

Healthy Cheap Meal Idea

Hi guys! as I shared my healthy routine but still low budget for you. I have mentioned Bibimbap, right? You guys must have seen this before by watching your favourite K-drama, I made this too inspired by K- drama and it looks so good and super healthy and most important it's easy to make. As you all already know all Koreans have very clear skin not to mention the artists. Okay let's talk about the Actors or Idols later, because they're beyond us, why I said that to you? because they're using expensive skincare, expensive treatment on their skin etc. We are just following their healthy habits in a low budget for sure, that also can lead us to get clear and flawless skin.

So most Koreans eat fruits and veggies.. all their ingredients are following nature. So full of colour and rich in nutrients. They applied the YIN and YANG principle, like 5 colours of the earth elements such as plants, fire, metal, soil and water. They are all connected to nature and represent the colours of the food. So do not be startled on how healthy they are by seeing how beautiful and clear their skin.

Bibim itself means mixed and bap is rice, so basically it's a mixed vegetable or any protein you prefer with cooked rice. So based on the name you gotta mix it all up before eating it. So I am going to share the recipe that I already made and pretty succeed. But the taste might be a bit different from the origin ones.. but it looks almost same and taste better in my opinion, not Indonesians people would love the original taste, so I make it fusion.

 Alright, I explain how to make Bibimbap for one person in my fusion style.

1. You can use any veggies that you like, here I'm using spinach, carrot, cabbage. You can make it by any veggies in your fridge.
2. Wash and cut all the veggies . for the spinach I boil it. The rest I just saute them with sesame oil. To make your veggies taste good, add teriyaki or oyster sauce.
3. Make a poach egg. Why I use poach egg instead of the fried ones? I need to reduce oil in my diet. why not make it in a hard-boiled egg? I have to minimize the budget because the hard-boiled egg takes more time to cook.
4. Crushed 1 garlic and minced it, saute with sesame oil, wait until the aroma comes out, then add a tablespoon of soy sauce and a teaspoon of oyster sauce. This would be your sauce and also a substitute for Gochujang (Korean chilli paste).
4. Prepare your bowl and the rice, it's up to you for the amount of the rice. Then put all your veggies on the top of the rice and your egg in the middle. Add slices of green onion and add the sauce, you can add the slices of chillies as well to add more flavour and touch of spiciness. The last mix it all .. and enjoy the food.

Hope you like my recipe, share some of your recipe ideas.. and most of all affordable and tasty!
Enjoy your Bibimbap! Comment down below if you like it. See you on my next post 😋😊😉