Before buying ingredients for another recipe, open your fridge and choose one ingredient you already have. Kkinion’s home-cooking notes start there: with ordinary ingredients, a meal you want to eat, and a portion for one.
Start with your ingredients, then choose dinner
If you have tofu, check whether you also have cooked rice, vegetables, and soy sauce. You do not need to follow someone else’s shopping list. When a recipe needs too many things you do not have, choose a different meal.
Measure one serving before cooking. In the example below, that means 180g of cooked rice and 120g of tofu. Serve it in a small rice bowl rather than filling a large serving dish.
A one-serving tofu rice bowl
This bowl is an example, not a required first meal. If tofu or spinach is missing from your kitchen, use Kkinion to choose another dish that fits what you have.
Ingredients for one
- 180g cooked rice
- 120g tofu
- 60g onion
- 60g spinach
- 7g olive oil
- 8g soy sauce
- 3g garlic
- 25mL water for the sauce
Cooking steps
- Pat the tofu dry with kitchen paper and cut it into slices about 1cm thick.
- Thinly slice the onion, rinse and drain the spinach, and finely chop the garlic.
- Mix the soy sauce and water in a small dish. Warm the cooked rice.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan and cook both sides of the tofu. Let each side set before turning so the tofu holds together.
- Add the garlic and onion to the same pan and cook. Add the spinach and let it wilt.
- Add the soy sauce mixture and gently cook until it coats the tofu and vegetables.
- Put the rice in a small bowl and top with the tofu and vegetables for one serving.
See the official Kkinion tofu rice bowl recipe for the original recipe page.
Read the steps before turning on the heat
Cooking can stall when you start heating a pan and then look for the sauce or the next instruction. Set out your ingredients and read through the sequence first. Kkinion brings the ingredient list and cooking steps together so you can use them while making dinner.
Common questions
Do I have to cook this tofu bowl?
No. Start with what is actually in your kitchen and choose a meal you want to eat. The tofu bowl illustrates the preparation process.
Can I start without much cooking experience?
Choose a dish whose ingredients and tools you have, measure the quantities, and read the steps before cooking.
Where can I try Kkinion?
Open the Kkinion web app, or view the iPhone app.
To join our first-dinner pilot, send “저녁” in a private message to Kkinion’s official Instagram account. Choose a meal using your own ingredients. After seven days, we ask once whether you finished your first meal, returned on your own, and where you got stuck. You do not need to send your name or photos. App analytics consent is optional.