I always get excited when I see a bag of baby potatoes from our grocery haul waiting to be stored away, because it means that Umma [Mom] is going to prepare algamja jorim very soon.
These petite potatoes are boiled and then stir-fried and tossed with Umma’s salty-sweet sauce and finished with sesame seeds, green onion, and gochugaru. The potatoes become extremely creamy and offer irresistible poppable bites. We like yellow potatoes best here, but you can buy baby potatoes of any color that are 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter. If you can only find larger baby potatoes, you can cut them into 1‑inch pieces.
