No Korean meal is complete without kimchi, a piquant condiment of fermented vegetables seasoned with ginger, garlic, chile, and all manner of fresh or preserved seafood.
Kalbi jjim shares ingredients with European beef stew—but here the dish gets its undertones from Asian sauces, dried mushrooms, molasses, plus hot red-pepper paste....
Kofte, cigar-shaped lamb meatballs, are popular throughout Turkey. This version calls for mildly hot and intensely flavorful Maras and Urfa dried red pepper flakes.