This delicious Korean chicken marinade is wonderful for steak or beef short ribs, as well as chicken. Serve it with steamed rice and kimchi, which is a traditional, fermented, seasoned vegetable dish.

Kimchi, sometimes spelt kim chee, kimchee or gimchi, can also refer to unfermented vegetables. There are lots of different variations of this dish using a main vegetable ingredient like radish, cucumber, green onions or napa cabbage. It is the most popular Korean side dish and also used to make other dishes like kimchi fried rice or kimchi stew, amongst others.

The following chicken marinade recipe combines sesame oil, soy sauce, sesame seeds, garlic, sesame seeds and other seasonings for a typical Korean flavor. Although this is also good with beef, it is nice with chicken. Poultry might have a mild flavor but it is more than capable of soaking up bold flavors like this and suiting the taste.