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Seasoned Bean Sprouts Recipe

Korean Cook — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:45:37 +0000

Seasoned bean sprouts Recipe – A simple korean recipe for seasoned bean sprouts.

Ingredients to make Seasoned Bean Sprouts Recipe

1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
12 oz soybean sprouts
4 tablespoons minced green onion (scallions)
1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
1 tablespoon dark sesame oil

Directions to make Seasoned Bean Sprouts Recipe

Step 1:

In a medium-size saucepan, with a lid, combine the water, salt and soybean sprouts. Bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat, cover with a lid, and steam the sprouts for 5 minutes.

Step 2:

Strain the sprouts and transfer to a mixing bowl.

Step 3:

Mix the sprouts with the green onion, toasted sesame seeds

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Barbeque Korean Beef Recipe

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:03:18 +0000

Ingredients:

1 flank steak (1 3/4 to 2 lb.)
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup thinly sliced green onions
2 tablespoons Asian sesame oil
3 tablespoons sugar
3 cloves garlic peeled and pressed or minced

How to make

1. Rinse beef and pat dry. Cut steak at a 45 angle across the grain, cutting almost, but not completely, through. Make another cut 1/4 inch from the first cut, following the same angle and cutting all the way through. Open up butterflied slices and place in a large bowl.

2. Add soy, green onions, sesame oil, sugar, and garlic to bowl; mix to coat. Cover and chill at least 30 minutes or up to 4 hours.

3. Spread slices open on an oiled grill over a bed of hot coals or high heat on a gas grill (you can hold your hand at grill level only 2 to 3 seconds); close lid on gas grill. Cook, turning once, until browned on both sides, 5 to 6 minutes total.

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White Kimchi

Korean Cook — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:12:33 +0000

White kimchi – This authentic Korean recipe for kimchi, which is stuffed cabbage, is very easy to make. Completely vegetarian, cabbage is your main vegetable, which then has even more healthy vegetables stuffed inside. If you love traditional Kimchi, you will love this simple recipe.

Servings: 6-8
Difficulty Level: 2

Ingredients to make White Kimchi

1 medium Napa cabbage
3 tablespoons salt
2 cups (500ml) water, or as needed

Stuffing Ingredients:
1 cup thinly shredded/julienned Korean/white radish
3 pinches dried shredded red pepper (Korean red pepper threads)
4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced or minced
2 slices ginger
2 green onions, sliced diagonally into thin strips
1 teaspoon (5ml) vinegar
1 teaspoon caster sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (250ml) water

Directions to make White Kimchi

Step 1:

Cut Napa cabbage cut into quarters lengthwise. Rinse the cabbage with cold water, and liberally sprinkle salt between the leaves (leaves are still connected to core). Place quarters in a large bowl, and add enough water to just cover. Set aside for 4 to 5 hours, or until leaves are soft.

Step 2:

Wash the salted cabbage 3 to 4 times in cold water, and drain in a colander for about 20 minutes

Step 3:

In a mixing bowl, make the stuffing by combining the shredded Korean/ white radish, shredded red pepper, garlic, ginger, green onions, vinegar, sugar, salt, and 1 cup (250ml) water

Step 4:

Sprinkle the stuffing between all the cabbage leaves in one quarter except for the large outside leaf. Reserve the liquid. Peel the large outside leaf back, without removing it from the core, and fold the remaining leaves in half. Wrap the outside leaf around the other leaves, and pack into a ½ gallon (2 litre) jar. Repeat with remaining quarters. Set aside at room temperature for 1 day.

Step 5:

To serve: slice wrap into 1 ½ inch slices.

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Bi Bim Bap Dolsot Recipe Video

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:41:13 +0000

This is an example of a typical bi bim bap dolsot recipe. Bap is a Korean word for rice and bi bim means to stir or mix together. The dolsot Bown is a heavy iron pot that is served with all the ingredients added. It is topped with rice and assorted fresh vegetables and then marinated along with a small amount of meat. It’s then all topped off with a raw egg or half baked egg added in the bowl as you stir. You should add to the table some guchojang, thats a red pepper paste that is extremely common in Korea.

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Korean Cook — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:08:08 +0000

Korean malgun sigumchi Kuk – This authentic Korean recipe, is a homemade beef spinach soup, that is out of this world! Simmered stove top, this one pot soup, is as tasty as it is easy and quick. Should you be lucky enough to have any leftovers, it’s a great lunch the next day.

Prep Time: 5-10 mins
Cook Time: 15-25 mins
Servings: 4
Main Ingredient: Ground Beef, Spinach
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Korean Malgun Sigumchi Kuk

1/2 lb Fresh spinach
1 Scallion
1 Clove garlic
4 c Water
1/2 lb Ground beef
1 ts Soy sauce
1 tb Salt
Dash pepper

Directions to make Korean Malgun Sigumchi Kuk

Step 1:Wash the spinach thoroughly and trim off the thick stems. Chop the scallion. Mince the garlic.

Step 2:Bring the water to a boil. Add the meat and bring to a second boil.

Step 3:Skim off the froth. Add the spinach, scallion, garlic, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Lower the flame and simmer for 10 minutes.

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Korean Dipping Sauce

Korean Cook — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:06:02 +0000

Korean dipping sauce – This authentic, quick, Korean dipping sauce recipe is extraordinary served with sauteed bean curd. Only three basic ingredients mixed together, and you have as sensational, classic, Korean dipping sauce.

Prep Time: 5-10 mins
Cook Time: 0 mins
Main Ingredient: Soy Sauce
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Korean Dipping Sauce

4 tb Soy sauce
4 ts Rice vinegar
1 ts Sesame oil

Directions to make Korean Dipping Sauce

Step 1:Mix all ingredients. Serve with sauteed bean curd.

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Korean Food — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:14:59 +0000

Summer has officially started in the United States. Mul Naengmyon, also known as buckwheat noodle in cold broth, is one of the most consumed Korean dishes during Summer in Korea.

Mul Naengmyon is served cold in a big metal bowls with sliced beef, strips of radish, hard-boiled egg, cucumber, Asian pear thin slices, with a cold beef stock. Bibim Naengmyon, another variation of this Korean Summer dish, is served with a hot red-pepper paste in place of the beef stock. For the seafood aficionados, Hwe Naengmyon (buckwheat noodles with sliced raw fish) is a must try.

Regardless of its variations, you should add Asian mustard and Korean rice vinegar according to your taste.

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Kimchee Sales Soar

Korean Food — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:17:36 +0000

Kimchee is becoming fashionable. Korean foods altogether are becoming trendy. The Korean dish dolsotbibimbap, the dish most representative of Korea, is now considered high cuisine. Korean recipes for dolsot bibimbap contain kimchee.

Dolsotbibimbap is a traditional Korean dish consisting of rice, seasoned or sautéed vegetables, meat, egg, kimchee and gochujang (spicy fermented bean paste.) Dolsot bibimbap means “stone pot” and refers to the practice of serving the dish in a bowl so hot it crisps the sesame-oil coated rice in the bottom. Dolsot bibimbap was recently featured on Iron Chef.

A real trend behind this bloom of global interest, besides the appreciation of fine food, is a health-conscious one.

Korean foods lend themselves to healthy eating practices. There are many Korean dishes that are vegetarian. Korean food is unique in flavors and is very different than any other Asian food. Korean recipes are springing up all over the internet.

Fermented foods are found in all traditional cultures. Fermentation was a way to preserve vegetables for eating in the winter months before the days of refrigeration. Fermented foods have enormous beneficial health qualities.

Kimchee, a Korean staple dish, has been shown to increase digestibility and iron uptake from beans and grains. It has anti-carcinogenic and antibiotic properties. It produces many helpful enzymes and is a decongestant. Folklore has it that it rids the body of fats.

Korean fermentation of cabbage and other vegetables has its origins in the Japanese and Chinese practices of pickling vegetables. This practice may have been introduced to Korea by its neighbors but Korean tastes always ran to the strong and flavorful. The introduction of the chile pepper in the 17th century led to the unique combination of ingredients that makes kimchee the most distinctive of Korean foods.

Japan and China are now the largest importers of Korean kimchee. The Japanese import $36 million worth of kimchee a year. The 2003 SARS outbreak in Japan and China had much to do with this. For reasons no one fully understands, Koreans remained largely unaffected by the virus, and accordingly, kimchee was touted as the reason. The typical Korean eats about 8oz. of kimchee per day, which makes up over 12% of their overall daily diet.

In 2005 the BBC reported that Seoul National University had conducted a bird flu study using kimchee. They fed 13 infected chickens kimchee and 11 began to recover. Following this news, the Wall Street Journal reported that Pulmuone Company, South Korea’s leading manufacturer of health foods, saw a 46% increase in kimchee sales.

Although there are yet no definitive studies proving that kimchee can prevent SARS or the bird flu there is no doubt that kimchee is a healthy Korean food.

The appreciation of Korean dishes that include fermented products like kimchee, gochujang (hot bean paste) and fish sauce can help many people to eat in a more healthy way. Dolsotbibimbap, the Korean dish that has gained in popularity here in the states contains both gochujang and kimchee.

Kimchee-making is a craft and mass production always carries with it the threat of thrift. Cutting costs to get the most return will change the original process of making kimchee and its traditional recipes.

Already, “healthy” versions of kimchee are appearing in natural foods stores and different versions of Korean recipes for kimchee are all over the web. Trendy or “healthy” versions of this already healthy product include cutting back salt, making super-fresh versions, using vinegar, and refrigerating kimchee immediately upon its making. Vegetarians object to the use of fermented shrimp paste or fish sauce in kimchee.

One maker of kimchee for natural food stores in Vermont explained that her kids complain about not wanting to have “kimchee breath” and that people are concerned about salt. She used sea salt (the one good change), added vinegar and sold it so fresh that fermentation couldn’t possibly occur.

The unfamiliarity with fermented foods and their process makes people leery of buying anything that has sat out unrefrigerated or that bubbles (a sign that lactic acid is at work.)

Salt is necessary to keep bad bacteria at bay until lactic acid is produced to ferment the kimchee. This lactic acid takes time to do its stuff and room temperature degrees are required to activate it.

The increasing use of vinegar to aid in fermentation detracts from the health benefits of kimchee: vinegar is not good to eat in large quantities and does not produce the same effects.

Also, fermentation is an unpredictable event. Kimchee flavors and Korean recipes for kimchee differ from batch to batch, household to household and region to region. Mass production requires uniformity and that often means the abandonment of original practices. Worries about food illness outbreaks leads to the practice of pasteurization.

Pasteurization entails subjecting foodstuff to high degrees in temperature, effectively killing all bacteria, even the beneficial bacteria that makes kimchee so healthy!

It’s wonderful to see this Korean dish getting the recognition it deserves but the Korean recipes floating around are not necessarily authentic, and the grocery store versions that contain preservatives belie the true process and benefits of fermentation altogether. If it needs preservatives, t hasn’t been fermented.

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