What does it taste like?
Mild and gently sweet.
Vegetables
Zucchini
애호박
Common aliases
zucchini · courgette · korean zucchini · summer squash
What is Zucchini?
A practical Korean cooking ingredient used to build balanced flavor and texture in everyday dishes such as rice meals, soups, stews, and banchan.
How is it used?
Slice into stews, pancakes, and sautés.
Where can you buy it?
Choose small, firm squash.
How should you store it?
Refrigerate dry and uncut.
Possible substitutes
Yellow summer squash is close.
Recipes using Zucchini
Soups & Stews
Blue Crab and Clam Stew(꽃게바지락찌개)
A savory seafood stew with blue crab, clams, radish, zucchini, bean sprouts, and a lightly seasoned anchovy-kelp broth.
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Soups & Stews
Budae Jjigae with Crown Daisy(쑥갓부대찌개)
A spicy stew of ham, zucchini, tofu, enoki mushrooms, kimchi, and chili pepper simmered in kelp broth and finished with fresh crown daisy.
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Rice Dishes
Dried Pollock Bibimbap(북어비빔밥)
A colorful bibimbap topped with vegetables, snails, shredded egg garnish, baby greens, edible flowers, and finely shredded dried pollock.
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Main Dishes
Easy Soy Milk Noodles(간편콩국수)
Buckwheat noodles served in a creamy tofu-soy milk broth with stir-fried mushrooms, zucchini, onion, and colorful chilies.
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Main Dishes
Perilla Seed Kalguksu(들깨칼국수)
Hand-cut noodles served in a rich perilla seed broth made with dried shrimp, anchovies, kelp, radish, onion, and garlic.
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Soups & Stews
Shrimp and Young Napa Cabbage Doenjang Soup(새우단배추된장국)
A savory doenjang soup with young napa cabbage, dried shrimp, tofu, vegetables, and a flavorful radish, anchovy, and kelp broth.
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Side Dishes
Stir-Fried Zucchini with Perilla Seed(애호박들깨볶음)
Tender zucchini stir-fried with dried shrimp, garlic, vegetables, perilla oil, and nutty ground perilla seeds.
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Soups & Stews37 min
Doenjang Stew(된장찌개)
An earthy soybean paste stew with tofu, zucchini, potato, and onion in anchovy broth.
EasyNot Spicy
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Rice Dishes45 min
Bibimbap(비빔밥)
A colorful bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, an egg, and gochujang for mixing at the table.
MediumMild
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