Korean Food / Bibimbap

Bibimbap

Posted by Ginny

JAN

1

2011

Bibimbap is a rice and vegetable dish mixed with hot pepper paste. Bibimbap is healthy and many varieties of bibimbap exist. Here are some you may be interested to try :
Dolsot Bibimbap (돌솥 비빔밥) is bibimbap that is cooked in a black, hot stone bowl. When the bowl is heated, sesame seed oil is poured and the rice comes afterward. Soon the bottom of the bowl will have a crusty, crispy layer of brown rice. Since the bowl is steaming hot, the raw egg is half cooked when it is cracked over the vegetables and rice.
Jeonju Bibimbap (전주 비빔밥) consists of rice, steamed spinach, mushrooms, marinated soybean sprouts, pine nuts, thinly sliced carrots, minced beef and red pepper paste. It’s a good way to get your vegetables in your diet and it’s delicious too. The rice, vegetables and red pepper paste is mixed together.
Jinju Bibimbap (진주 비빔밤) is a type of bibimbap using raw beef and seasoned with spices, and plentiful amounts of sesame oil. The beef is prepared beforehand and finely shredded. All the blood is removed and seasoned. The seasoned beef is added with thinly sliced cucumbers, marinated spinach, and steamed zucchini.
Nakji Bibimbap (낙지 비빔밤) is bibimbap with nakji (낙지). Nakji is a small octopus usually served while living. However with nakji bibimbap, the small octopus has been cut into small pieces and seasoned with sesame oil, salt and red pepper paste. The veggie portion of this dish include dried seaweed, lettuce strips and soybean sprouts.

Korean Food / Sol-long-tang

Sol-long-tang Rice & Beef Noodle Soup 설렁탕

Sollongtang is rice beef noodle soup seasoned with sesame seeds, salt, pepper, scallions, and sesame oil. This dish has long been favored by Koreans as one of the staples of Korean cuisine and has been undisputedly favored as a primal dish common to most cultures. It is served with rice in which the rice may be directly added to the soup. The meal is also accompanied by numerous side dishes, including kimchi or kkakdugi. As butter is to bread, kimchi or kkakdugi is an inseparable side dish for this meal. Fact: Sollongtang has been known to be one of the best remedy for curing a hangover in the Korean culture. Recommended Restaurants New York Gam Mi Ok (NYC) Hahm Ji Bach: Bayside; Flushing Kum Gang San: Flushing; Manhattan Seoul Soondae New Jersey Gam Mi Ok (Fort Lee) Gam Na Moo Gol Recipe Ingredients ½ lb beef rib steak 1⅓ lb shank of beef ½ whole Korean radish ¼ lb Chinese noodles 1 large green onion 5 cloves garlic Salt, black pepper Very large pot with cover Cooking Directions Cut the beef into pieces and divide the radish into two pieces. Boil the beef and radish in 30 cups of water. Lower the heat and simmer for 1 hour till the meat is very tender. Take the meat and radish out of the broth. Cool the broth and cut off the excess fat. Slice the meat thinly into small size. Slice the radish into pieces 1/8" thick. Add the meat, radish and crushed garlic to the broth. Then boil again. Place noodles. Originally, you put buckwheat noodles in the soup. Nowadays, you can put other thin noodles such as Chinese noodles. Cut large green onion into rings. Add salt, black pepper, and green onion and check seasoning by salt before serving.

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Korean Food / Kim-chi

Kim-chi Fermented Cabbage 김치

Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish consisting of fermented chili peppers and vegetables, usually based on cabbage. It is suspected that the name kimchi originated from shimchae (salting of vegetable) which went through some phonetic changes: shimchae > dimchae > kimchae >kimchi. Common ingredients include Chinese cabbage, radish, garlic, red pepper, spring onion, ginger, salt, and sugar. While Kimchi is generally identified internationally as Chinese cabbage fermented with a mixture of red pepper, garlic, ginger, and salted fish sauce, several types of kimchi exists, including regional and seasonal variations. There are variants, includingkkakdugi, based on radish and containing no cabbage. Kimchi has been cited by Health Magazine as one of the world's five "healthiest foods", with the claim that it is rich in vitamins, aids digestion, and may even prevent cancer. The health properties of kimchi are due to a variety of factors. It is usually made with cabbage, onions, and garlic, all of which have well-known health benefits. Kinchi also has active and beneficial bacterial cultures, like yogurt. Lastly, kimchi contains liberal quantities of hot pepper, which has been suggested to have health benefits as well. The best tasting kimchi is stored in room temperature for an average of six months to reach its full flavor.  It is a popular side dish but is also often used as an ingredient in cooking other popular Korean dish, including kimchi chigae (kimchi soup) and kimchi bokumbop (kimchi fried rice). Fun fact: Like the McDonald’s University of Hamburgers in Illinois, US, there is a Kimchi Research Institute located in Pusan National University, South Korea. Buy kimchi online: New York Kimchi

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