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Cabbage and soy bean paste soup (baechu doenjangguk:배추된장국)
My secret recipe for this delicious Korean favourite! Full instructions on my blog
'm so excited to introduce this simple and healthy soup to you!
Korean meals are usually served with rice, soup, and other side dishes. Just in case you don't know what doenjang is, I'm telling you that doenjang is Korean fermented soy bean paste.
You could make so many different kinds of doenjang guk using different vegetables such as spinach, potato, radish leaves, fresh mugwort (ssuk)... Of all the vegetables, baechu (napa cabbage) doenjang guk is the most basic soup and every Korean loves it. (Let me know if you find any Korean who doesn't like this soup) : )
I will give you a short quiz now. : ) What would you call doenjang guk made with spinach? ... pause ... yes, it's called shigeumchi doenjang guk. Shigeumchi is spinach in Korean. Heh, it's easy, right?
When my grandmother made this soup, she always used milky rice water instead of water. Every day she made a huge amount of rice to feed her family. When she washed, rubbed, and rinsed her rice grains, she got the milky water. When she made doenjang guk, she used that milky rice water in her pot.
When I was in middle school, the lady next door ran a restaurant. She sold baechu doenjang guk. She and my mother were friends, so we were like family. Most of her soup customers were male workers who needed a cheap and simple breakfast before starting work early in the morning. What time in the morning? Before dawn! To be ready to serve this soup, she probably should make it at 2-3 am? Her soup was very popular so that her restaurant was always crowded especially in the morning.
I saw her serving her soup to her customers. When her customer was sitting at the table, she ladled the soup into a large bowl from her huge pot and added a little barley rice (about 2 tbs?), and put it on his table. Only one side dish was there, kkaktugi (radish kimchi). That's all! The worker's stomach will get warm with the hot soup and a little bit of rice!
I used to wake up with the irresistible aroma from the soup she made. Sometimes the smell made me go crazy! : )
Her doenjangguk was not spicy and a little brown and milky. It was super tasty!
I saw she used flour instead of rice water. She made this doenjang guk exactly this way I'm showing in this video recipe. Only thing I skipped is MSG. : ) Instead of MSG, I use more dried anchovies.
I miss her now. We lost connection long time ago when my family moved to another place.
Ingredients:
700 grams of Napa cabbage (half of a medium size napa cabbage), 1/3 cup soy bean paste, 10dried anchovies, 6 cups of water, 1 green chili pepper, 5-6 cloves of garlic, 2 tbs flour.
Directions:
1.Put about 700 grams of Napa cabbage directly into boiling water and stir it with a large spoon for 20 seconds. Boil it for a minute with the lid open.
2. Rinse it in cold water a couple of times to clean any remaining dirt from the cabbage leaves. Gently squeeze the leaves to get rid of any remaining water.
3. Chop the cabbage into small pieces and put them into a large pot.
4. Add 1/3 cup soy bean paste, 5-6 cloves minced garlic, 1 chopped green chili pepper, 10 large dried anchovies (after removing heads and guts), and 2 tbs flour to the pot.
5. Mix it by hand or a wooden spoon.
6. Add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil for 20 minutes over medium high heat.
7. Lower the heat and simmer another 10 minutes.
8. Serve hot with rice and other side dishes.
*tip: Do you like spicy soup? Then add some hot pepper paste right before simmering (step 7
Baechu Doenjang Guk / Napa Cabbage and Soybean Paste Soup
This soup is a soul food for most Koreans. Unlike most famous Korean dishes, this soup is often served with rice in restaurants, but it’s barely sold as a single menu. This doenjang based soup with napa cabbage is even more delicious when the cabbage is juicy and fresh, during late fall and winter.
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Ingredients
400g nappa cabbage leaves
20 dried anchovies(myeolchi)
5cm x 5cm dried kelp
1 stalk green onion
1 red chilli
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons doenjang (Korean soybean paste)
5 cups water
Salt, if needed
Instructions
1. Remove the guts by opening the belly and scraping them out.
2. Cook the anchovies in a non-oiled pan for about 2 minutes until completely dry. Add water and dry kelp to the pot and cook until boiling, in a medium heat.
3. Mince the garlic and chop the chili. Cut the cabbage into 2 to 3- inch pieces. Rinse in water and drain. When the broth starts to boil keep cooking for additional 5 minutes and then discard the kelp. Continue cooking the anchovy broth for about 15 minutes in a medium heat. 3. Discard the anchovies and run the soybean paste through a strainer in the broth
4. Add the cabbage leaves in the broth and cook for 15 minutes. Add garlic, chilis and green onion. Then cook for an additional 5 minutes.
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