How to make the easiest Kimchi ?
It is true it’s hard to make kimchi in overseas than making in Korea, it’s not a simle to get all the ingredients in a local supermarket or in an Asian market. One day my friend and I was discussing how to can we make a kimchi in a simplest way but still delicious and flesh! Here I will share the recipe and once you try, I’m 100% sure you will fell in love with this easiest method.
Ingredients
Two cabbages, Green onions, Garlic, Ginger powder, fish sauce, hot paper flakes, and Sprite (the normal flavour)
Method
1. Slice the cabbages and wash.
2. Put those chopped cabbages into a big jar and soak them into salt (1 cup of salt).
3. Blends 10 piece of garlics.
4. After waiting for 30 – 40 minutes, take out all the salted cabbages.
5. Now let’s mix with
2 cups of hot paper flakes,
2 spoons of ginger powder,
the blended garlics and green onions,
1.5 cups of fish sauce,
1/2 cup of Sprite
* Make sure the kimchi paste is not watery
6. Mix with the salted cabbages and your kimchi paste.
Important
Before mixing with the paste and the cabbages, taste a small piece of the cabbages. Rinse with water if it’s too salty.
Now it’s all done! Put the kimchi into an air-tight sealed plastic container. Put them in your fridge.
Enjoy with Korean boiled pork Suyuk (수육)
In Korea, having made a new kimchi, eating with Suyuk is traditional culture. I would like to share my recipe, which is very simple.
Ingredients
300g pork belly,
6 bay leafs,
one onion,
Roots of the used green onion
Method
1. Put all the ingredients and pour water up to the onion
2. 40 to 1 hour boil, while boiling if the water dries up pour more water.
Tip: If the kimchi taste a bit salty, don’t worry about it. Cabbage keep produce water so it will be mild.
Preparing ingredients for making kimchi might seems tiring but after you make it all, certainly you will feel achievement and happy. Hope you all can enjoy your own kimchi
