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This dish started after the Korean War when food was in short supply. Canned ham, hot dogs, and beans were taken from American military bases and mixed with traditional Korean kimchi, vegetables, noodles, and spicy seasonings to create a delicious spicy and hearty stew. Army stew or army base stew (Budae Jjigae) is Korean fusion stew that incorporates American style processed food such as spam, sausages, canned baked beans and sliced cheese.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook budae-jjigae army base soup/ stew using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew:
- Prepare Soup
- Prepare 12 ounces spam
- Take 5 ounce Vienna sausage
- Prepare 1 package ramen noodles
- Make ready 3 slices American cheese
- Get 1 cup kimchee
- Make ready 1/2 pound hotdogs
- Make ready 12 ounces tofu, extra firm
- Get 2 quarts chicken broth
- Make ready 1-1/2 cup pork and beans
- Get 1/4 pound bacon
- Prepare 1/4 cup sliced green onion optional
- Take 8 ounces mushrooms optional
- Get 1 rice cake optional
- Take Flavorings
- Make ready 2 tablespoons mirin
- Take 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- Get 1 tablespoons sugar
- Take 1 tablespoons soya sauce
- Make ready 1 teaspoon gochujang sauce
- Prepare To taste salt optional
- Get To taste oyster crackers
- Make ready 1 tablespoon minced garlic
Of course, we can make the broth with various kinds of vegetables and kelp. However, that way, you can't get the taste from the restaurant. That is still a home-made style! This is our second take on Budae Jjigae!
Instructions to make Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew:
- Slice the bacon and render the bacon keep the drippings. Slice the hotdogs on a bias.
- Break the ramen noodles up. You can use the flavorings ingredients, also add the flavor packet of the noodles, if you like. This soup is based with a lot of processed foods which can tend to be on the salty side.
- Cut the Vienna sausages into thirds. Add the juices to a pot, usually it's chicken broth. Add the chicken broth to the same pot. Heat the broths mixture.
- Cut the kimchee into manageable pieces.
- Add mushrooms and add everything to the pot with the hot broth, except the salt, tofu, and spam. Cube the tofu.
- In the bacon drippings fry the cubed tofu. Fry till a little colorful. Set tofu aside.
- Cube the spam and fry. When the spam is crisp add to the soup. When you fry the spam it gets a bit salty. Also the broth from the can of Vienna sausages is very salty along with the soya sauce. Add the tofu, and stir in. Simmer 30 minutes. Remove from heat. Add cheese on top.
- Taste to see saltiness, if too salty add a little more rice vinegar. If not salty enough add salt to taste. Serve with oyster crackers, I hope you enjoy!!
When I make budae jjigae, Korean army base stew, I simply pull out from freezer as many pouches as needed. This cuts down on time to make and prepare the sauce. I have kept this sauce in the freezer for over three months. Budae jjigae (부대찌개) is a fusion dish that incorporates American processed meats such as Spam, ham, bacon, and hot dogs into a Korean stew with kimchi. Budae is a general term for a military base in Korean, but budae jjigae is translated into "Army stew" or "Army base stew" because of its origin.
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