Korean stew type 🥘: Everyone, when you first came to Korea, did you get used to Korean food?
It’s been almost 3 years since I came to Korea, and I started eating Korean food well!
Among Korean food, I’ve been enjoying eating jjigae these days
Today, I’m going to introduce my favorite Korean stew~
What is stew?
A dish where ingredients are put in a pot or earthen pot, and water and seasoning are added to it and boiled. Along with rice, soup, kimchi, and sauces, it is one of the dishes that are not included in the traditional table.
Soup/Tang: There is a lot of water and less ingredients. It is a dish that mainly eats soup.
Hot pot: less stock and more ingredients. Broth is an ingredient for cooking ingredients. Budae jjigae actually becomes a food that is close to budae jeongol. These days, it is cooked while boiling, but considering the origin of budae jjigae, the original budae jjigae is a food made with ingredients that have been cooked once.
Stew: It’s between hot pot and soup/tang.
Korean stew type 🥘
1️⃣ Kimchi stew
🥘 It is a stew based on kimchi, one of the traditional Korean dishes.
🥘 Kimchi stew is a soup made by boiling kimchi, pork, tofu, onions, green onions, and garlic together. As you know, kimchi is one of the famous fermented foods in Korea, and you can make various dishes with kimchi.
To make kimchi stew, you have to boil kimchi with seasoning first. In this process, the spicy and salty taste of kimchi is added to create a special taste of the stew.
🥘 Also, kimchi stew is rich in various nutrients. Kimchi contains a lot of lactobacillus and intestinal microorganisms, which can help improve digestion, and pork is rich in nutrients such as protein, iron, and zinc. Tofu contains calcium and protein, which helps maintain healthy bones and muscles.
🥘 I didn’t really like kimchi, but I don’t really eat kimchi stew either. But as I ate a lot, I felt the charm of kimchi stew. It’s really delicious and healthy food.
2️⃣ Soybean paste stew
🥘 When I first came to Korea, I went to a snack bar and there was soybean paste stew. At that time, I didn’t eat a single bite because of the strong smell of soybean paste. But after living in Korea for a long time, I learned the taste of soybean paste stew. I’m eating it really deliciously right now^^
🥘 Soybean paste stew is a soup made by cutting soybean paste, pork, tofu, onion, green onion, garlic, etc. Soybean paste is one of the representative fermented foods in Korea, along with red pepper paste made by fermenting soybeans.
🥘 Now, doenjang jjigae is a food that you have to cook at home or go out if you don’t eat it for a few days.
3️⃣ Soft Tofu Stew
🥘 Soft tofu stew is characterized by soft tofu and spicy sauce. Soft tofu is a food obtained from soybean paste made by fermenting soybean paste, and has a soft and chewy texture.
🥘 To make soft tofu stew, first boil ingredients such as pork, seafood, onions, cheongyang peppers, and garlic together to create a savory taste, and then add soft tofu and cook it gently.
🥘 In Korea, when you go to a snack bar, they often give you stew if you order two dishes. I often chose between soft tofu stew and soybean paste stew. I ordered a lot of soft tofu stew, too
4️⃣ Budae jjigae
🥘 It originated from the food traditionally eaten in the military. It is a soup made by boiling various ingredients such as pork, tofu, rice cake, onion, green onion, bok choy, bean sprouts, red pepper paste, and red pepper powder.
🥘 Budae-jjigae is a food that combines various ingredients with soup that tastes spicy with red pepper paste and red pepper powder to capture both taste and nutritional value.
🥘 Budaejjigae is a military dish, but it is now one of the popular foods enjoyed by many people at home and abroad.
🥘 Budaejjigae is a food that I ate a lot in China even before I came to Korea. That’s how famous and delicious it is.
Today, I introduced you to various Korean stews.
Just looking at the image makes me hungry..
Everyone, do you like Korean stew?
