Cold cucumber soup side dish

Oi-naengguk 오이 냉국

Are you looking for something refreshing, light, healthy, and cold cold cold? Yes, how about a cold cucumber side dish? In Korean it’s called oi-naengguk and it’s perfect for summer! The thin cucumber matchsticks soaked in icy cold, sweet, sour, salty, and garlicky brine will please your appetite. The cold temperature is a nice surprise and the crispy but soft texture of the cucumber is wonderful.

A great thing about this side dish is that you can make it in 5 minutes, and you don’t need to cook anything at all. Just cut the ingredients and mix.

 

 

1. Cut the cucumber into 3 inch long thin matchsticks and put them into a chilled mixing bowl.

     2. Add garlic, green onion, and red chili pepper (if used).

     3. Add the salt, soy sauce, sugar, and vinegar. Mix well, gently with a spoon until the salt

         and sugar are well dissolved.

 

      4. Add the water,  ice cubes, and the sliced tomato (if you use), and gently mix with a spoon.

 

 

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Rice mixed with meat, vegetables, an egg, and chili pepper paste

For 4- 6 servings.

Ingredients

• Cooked rice
• a package of bean sprouts
• a bunch of spinach
• 2 small size of zucchinis
• 5-7 Shiitake mushrooms
• fernbrake (gosari)
• 200 grams of ground beef (about half a pound)
• 1 small carrot, eggs
• soy sauce, hot pepper paste, garlic, sesame seeds, sesame oil, and vegetable oil

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Spicy soft tofu stew with kimchi and pork belly (Kimchi-sundubu-jjigae 김치순두부찌개)

Ingredients (Serves 1 or 2)

• 8 large dried anchovies, heads and guts removed
• 5 ounces of radish, peeled, washed, and sliced thinly
• dried kelp (6 x 4 inch piece)
• 2 tablespoons hot pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• ½ cup pork belly (or any cut of pork: 2.5 ounces), cut into small pieces
• ¼ cup chopped onion
• 1 clove minced garlic
• 1 green onion, chopped
• ½ cup well-fermented kimchi (4 ounces), chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• 1 tube of soft tofu (sundubu)
• 1 egg

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Pork wraps (Bo-ssam 보쌈)

For oyster radish salad

• 1 pound Korean radish (or daikon), peeled and washed
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 green onion, chopped
• 8 ounces frozen shucked oysters, thawed out in the fridge for an hour
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons hot pepper flakes
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds

For shrimp sauce

• 1 tablespoon saeujeot (fermented salted shrimp)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
• 1 green onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 tablespoon water
• a pinch of sesame seeds

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Napa cabbage kimchi

 

Tongbaechu-kimchi 통배추김치

 

 

Ingredients (Makes about 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of Kimchi):
For salting cabbage:

• 6 pounds napa cabbage (3 to 4 heads of medium napa cabbage)
• 1/2 cup Kosher salt

For making porridge:

• 2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons sweet rice flour (glutinous rice flour)
• 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar (brown or white sugar)

Vegetables:

• 2 cups radish matchsticks
• 1 cup carrot matchsticks
• 7 to 8 green onions, chopped
• 1 cup chopped Asian chives (buchu), optional (substitute with 3 green onions, chopped)
• 1 cup water dropwort (minari), optional

Seasonings and spices:

• 1/2 cup garlic cloves (24 garlic cloves), minced
• 2 teaspoon ginger, minced
• 1 medium onion, minced
• 1/2 cup fish sauce
• 1/4 cup fermented salted shrimp (saeujeot) with the salty brine, chopped
• 2 cups hot pepper flakes (gochugaru)

 

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Green chili pepper pancake

Gochujeon 고추전

 

Ingredients (for 2- 4 servings): Green chili peppers, onion, fish sauce, flour, water, vegetable oil

 

 

 

 

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Crispy and crunchy fried chicken Dakgangjeong 닭강정

Crispy and crunchy fried chicken Dakgangjeong 닭강정

Ingredients:

• 3½ pounds chicken wings (about 1.6 kg), washed and drained
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger
• 2/3 cup potato starch or corn starch
• 1/3 cup peanuts (optional)
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 to 4 large dried red chili peppers, seeded, cut crosswise into ⅓ inch pieces (optional)
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• ½ cup rice syrup or corn syrup
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 tablespoon mustard (optional)
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• Grapeseed oil (or vegetable oil, peanut oil)

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