Hwanggwa damjeo (1766 cucumber kimchi with chilli)
Hwanggwa damjeo is a cucumber kimchi from Yu Jung-rim's Jeungbo sallim gyeongje of 1766. Slit cucumbers are packed with chilli powder and garlic, scalded with hot salted water and sealed overnight.
South Korea
Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.
South Korea
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Saeujeot (Korean salted fermented shrimp)
Korean fermented seafood made by salting whole small shrimp and maturing them in their own brine, used as a seasoning, in kimchi and with pork.
Oi-sobagi
Oi-sobagi is a Korean stuffed cucumber kimchi: salted cucumbers slit and filled with a chive-and-chilli seasoning, eaten fresh or left to ferment.
High risk
Myeolchi jeot
Salted anchovies mature in a covered jar with brine. The fish can be seasoned for a meal, while the expressed liquid seasons kimchi and other dishes.
Yeolmu kimchi
Korean kimchi of young summer radish and its tender leaves, salted, seasoned with chili and aromatics, and held in a container. Water kimchi is a separate form with its own page, veg-0011.
Sujeonggwa (cinnamon-ginger fruit punch)
A chilled Korean dessert punch of cinnamon and ginger boiled in water, sweetened and poured over dried persimmons.
Ssal-jocheong (rice syrup)
A Korean rice syrup: cooked rice is converted by barley malt in a long warm hold, strained, and the sweet liquid is boiled down until it pours like maple syrup.
Sikhye
A Korean sweet rice drink made by holding cooked rice in water drawn off barley malt until the grains float, then boiling and chilling it.
Elevated risk
Eoriguljeot (Eorigul-jeot)
A Korean salted-oyster jeotgal seasoned with chili, associated especially with Seosan and Ganwoldo. This page records its food culture, not a household preparation method.
Sulppang (makgeolli bread)
A soft Korean steamed wheat bread leavened with dry yeast and raw makgeolli, with apple pieces and fresh beans folded through the surface.
Ssamjang-style wrapping sauce
Doenjang and gochujang stirred together with sesame oil and seeds, a little honey, water, raw garlic and spring onion: a thick, savoury sauce for lettuce wraps with rice.
Soy milk (duyu)
A Korean-style soy drink of cooked whole soybeans blended with cold water, sesame and salt and served at once; tofu-making soy milk is a different, filtered milk.
Elevated risk
Myeolchi-aekjeot (Korean anchovy fish sauce)
Myeolchi-aekjeot is Korean anchovy sauce: whole anchovies salted to about 25 percent brine, fermented for months to years and filtered; its main use is as a kimchi seasoning.
Korean-style sweet-sour mustard dressing
A fresh sweet-sour mustard dressing for cold cucumber and pear or a freshly prepared salad. Its gram-based proportions are original and are not copied from Maangchi’s gyeoja-naengchae recipe.
Doenjang meju
A cooked soybean brick, shaped and dried, that is fermented as a solid and later brined to make the Korean soy paste doenjang and the soy sauce ganjang.
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Doenjang
Doenjang (된장) is a Korean fermented soybean paste made by brining meju, separating ganjang, then mashing and aging the solids. This recipe follows one documented Sunchang processing study.
Chogochujang-style sour chilli dip
Chogochujang is a Korean sweet-sour sauce made by seasoning gochujang with vinegar and sugar. This development batch adds water and toasted sesame seeds, with optional garlic for the portion being served.
Fresh Firm Tofu
Fresh firm tofu is made by coagulating cooked soybean milk, then draining and pressing the curds into a sliceable block. This version follows a published nigari method and traces tofu’s varied, contested history.
Soboro-ppang (Jennifer’s 10-bun recipe)
Ten soft, sweet yeast buns with a crisp, peanut butter streusel topping, shaped by hand and baked until golden.
Miyeok-guk (Korean Seaweed Soup)
A Korean soup of rehydrated brown seaweed simmered with beef, seafood or a plain seasoned broth, traditionally served after childbirth, on birthdays and as an everyday meal.
Hotteok
Maangchi’s eight-piece hotteok wraps a brown-sugar, cinnamon and walnut filling in yeast dough, then fries and presses the parcels in a pan.
Kkakdugi
A radish kimchi cut into cubes and seasoned with gochugaru, fish sauce, garlic and ginger, eaten fresh or fermented a few days at room temperature.
Ihwaju
Thick, sweet Korean rice wine made with a rice-based starter called ihwagok and almost no added water, fermented into a paste that is eaten with a spoon or thinned with cold water.
Chonggak-kimchi (ponytail radish kimchi)
Small ponytail radishes keep their greens attached and ferment in a flour-and-chile seasoning paste.
Baechu kimchi
Napa cabbage salted, seasoned with a paste of gochugaru, garlic, ginger and salted seafood, and left to sour through lactic fermentation; Korea's everyday winter preserve.
Elevated risk
Korean danyangju, single-stage nuruk makgeolli
An alcoholic Korean rice drink of steamed glutinous rice and nuruk, mashed in a single stage and fermented for 7 to 14 days.
Elevated risk
Andong soju
Andong soju is a rice spirit from North Gyeongsang, distilled from steamed rice and wheat nuruk. This method makes the starter before fermenting the rice mash in a jar.
Elevated risk
Korean nuruk rice wine: makgeolli or yakju
A Korean grain wine fermented from steamed rice, nuruk and yeast in two mash additions, drawn off clear as yakju or blended cloudy with rice solids and water as makgeolli.
Bokbunja-ju
Korean black raspberry wine: crushed bokbunja berries with their seeds, sweetened to 20 °Brix, fermented 15 days at 25 °C with wine yeast, filtered and matured three months.
White-rice yakju with rice-flour nuruk
A 2021 study's white-rice yakju: steamed Hanareum rice ferments with rice-flour nuruk and takju yeast for 11 days, then the clear upper liquid is filtered and centrifuged.
Asparagus with cho-gochujang
A Korean banchan of blanched asparagus dressed with a sweet-sour cho-gochujang sauce; Hyosun's version cools the spears in ice water before tossing.
Elevated risk
Pa-kimchi with fruit and anchovy seasoning
Scallion kimchi coated with fruit, chili, rice paste and salted-seafood seasonings, following one Korean creator’s measured batch.
Elevated risk
Nabak-kimchi with pear and apple
Cabbage-and-radish water kimchi with pear, apple and strained chili broth, following one Korean creator’s batch.
Nabak-kimchi (vegetable and fruit water kimchi)
Napa cabbage and radish ferment in a rose-coloured broth with cucumber, apple, pear, alliums and chile.
Baek-kimchi (white napa-cabbage kimchi)
Napa cabbage is brined and filled with pear, radish, alliums, chives and fruit; this Korean kimchi omits red pepper flakes.
Quick dongchimi with apple broth
A modern broth-forward radish-water kimchi cooks apples and onion into the fermentation liquid.
Yeolmu mulkimchi
Summer water kimchi of young radish, seasoned with fish sauce and chiles, brined in salted water with cooked flour.
Pa-kimchi
Pa-kimchi is a Korean kimchi of whole green onions salted, dressed with chilli and fish sauce, and fermented until pungent and sour.
OSU measured kimchi
Kimchi of salted napa cabbage and daikon with garlic, green onion and red pepper, kept at room temperature one to four days, then refrigerated.
Elevated risk
Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder
Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.
Elevated risk
Rice-koji doenjang from a controlled study
A Korean fermented soybean paste built on rice koji instead of traditional meju blocks, matured warm for thirty days with salt holding the water activity down.