peuraipaene gireumeul jogeum dureugo dubureul bokkayo.

프라이팬에 means in the frying pan or into/on the frying pan, depending on how natural English sounds in context.

The particle 에 is used because the frying pan is the place/surface that the oil is being applied to. In Korean cooking language, 프라이팬에 기름을 두르다 is a very natural pattern.

Here, 에 is better than 에서 because the focus is not really the location where someone is doing an action, but the target place/surface for the oil.

Yes. 프라이팬 is a loanword from English frying pan.

A few notes:

• 프라이팬 is the standard spelling.
• 팬 is also very common in everyday speech.
• 후라이팬 is very commonly said by native speakers, but it is considered nonstandard spelling.

So learners should recognize all three, but 프라이팬 is the safest form to write.

In cooking, 기름을 두르다 means something like:

• add oil to the pan
• drizzle in some oil
• lightly coat the pan with oil

It does not just mean put oil in a general sense. It specifically suggests spreading or coating the cooking surface with a small amount of oil.

So 기름을 조금 두르고 gives the idea of lightly oil the pan.

This is because 두르다 is a 르 irregular verb.

That irregular change happens with endings like -아/어요:

• 두르다 → 둘러요
• 두르다 → 둘렀어요

But -고 does not trigger that change, so the form stays:

• 두르다 → 두르고

So:

• 둘러요 = correct
• 두르고 = correct
• 둘러고 = incorrect

Here, 조금 means a little or a bit, and it modifies the amount of oil being used.

So 기름을 조금 두르고 means use a little oil / lightly oil the pan.

This placement is very natural:

• 기름을 조금 두르고

You may also hear:

• 기름 조금 두르고 — more conversational, with the particle omitted

But 기름을 조금 두르고 is a very standard textbook-style pattern.

Because each verb has its own direct object.

The sentence is really made of two linked parts:

• 기름을 조금 두르고 — apply/add a little oil
• 두부를 볶아요 — stir-fry the tofu

So:

• 기름을 is the object of 두르다
• 두부를 is the object of 볶다

Even though it is one sentence, each verb still keeps its own object marking.

-고 connects verbs and usually means and.

In a sentence like this, it often has a natural and then feeling:

• 프라이팬에 기름을 조금 두르고 두부를 볶아요
• Lightly oil the frying pan, and then stir-fry the tofu

So it links the two actions in sequence:

1. oil the pan
2. cook the tofu

In recipes, -고 is extremely common for listing steps.

Yes, the subject is omitted.

In recipe sentences, Korean often leaves out the subject because it is obvious. The understood subject is something like:

• you
• we
• or an impersonal instruction style

Also, Korean recipes often use the polite present form -아요/어요 to describe steps:

• 볶아요
• 넣어요
• 끓여요

Even though it looks like present tense, it functions very naturally as an instruction in recipe language.

볶다 generally means stir-fry or sauté.

In actual English translation, the best word depends on context:

• if you are moving food around in a little oil, stir-fry or sauté
• if the tofu is simply cooking in the pan with oil, pan-fry may sound more natural in English

So 볶다 covers a range that overlaps with several English cooking verbs. In this sentence, any of stir-fry, sauté, or pan-fry could work depending on the style of translation.

You could, but the nuance changes.

• 기름을 조금 넣고 = add a little oil
• 기름을 조금 두르고 = add a little oil and coat the pan with it

So 넣고 is more general, while 두르고 is the more natural cooking verb when talking about oiling a pan before frying.

If you want to sound natural in recipe Korean, 두르다 is the better choice here.

볶아요 is pronounced roughly like 보까요, often written approximately as bo-kkayo.

That happens because the final consonant in 볶- links to the following vowel-initial ending -아요.

A few useful pronunciation notes from this sentence:

• 볶아요 → roughly 보까요
• 두르고 → roughly 두르고
• 프라이팬 → roughly peu-ra-i-paen

So the spelling and pronunciation do not always match one-to-one, which is very normal in Korean.

Korean usually puts information in the order that the action happens.

So this sentence naturally goes:

1. 프라이팬에 — set the place
2. 기름을 조금 두르고 — first step
3. 두부를 볶아요 — next step

That makes it feel very procedural, which is exactly the style used in recipes.

English often does something similar:

• Lightly oil a frying pan and cook the tofu

So the Korean word order is very natural for step-by-step instructions.