Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, homemade kimchi. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Homemade Kimchi is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Homemade Kimchi is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Baechu, or napa cabbage, kimchi is made by lacto-fermentation, the same process that creates sauerkraut and traditional dill pickles. In the first stage, the cabbage is soaked in a salty brine that kills off harmful bacteria. If you are looking to start fermenting your own vegetables, the Korean dish kimchi is a great place to start.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade kimchi using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Kimchi:
- Get 1 lb Wombok (Napa Cabbage)
- Prepare 3 cups Water
- Get 1 cup Salt
- Make ready 1 lb Radish, shredded
- Take 3 Onion leaves, cut into 1-inch long pieces
- Take Blended Paste:
- Take 1/2 Korean Pear, sliced
- Prepare 1 Onion, sliced
- Make ready Porridge:
- Prepare 300 ml Water
- Get 3 Tbsp Sweet Rice Flour
- Prepare Seasoning Mix:
- Get 5 Tbsp Red Pepper Powder (you can add more if you want too spicy)
- Take 100 ml Fermented Anchovy Sauce
- Take 1 1/2 Tbsp Maesilaek
- Get 1 Tbsp Sugar
- Take 2 Tbsp Garlic, minced
- Get 1/2 Tbsp Ginger, minced
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Salted Fermented Shrimp
Some can be really spicy but with homemade kimchi you can tailor it to your spice level. Why is it spelled kimchi and kimchee? Kimchee is the traditional way that South Koreans spell it. Apparently 'kimchi' was made up from Japanese and it's some kind of word-war.
Instructions to make Homemade Kimchi:
- Cut bottom of the cabbage. Cut the leaves into bite sizes.
- Sprinkle salt evenly to all of the cabbage layer by layer. Splash water at the end. Soak the cabbage for 2 hours.
- Rinse at least 3 times through in cold water and place in a large strainer. Drain completely, about 1 hour.
- Add sweet rice powder into water and mix well in low heat. Let it cool off completely.
- Blend the Korean pear and onion.
- Combine blended Korean pear and onion, porridge, seasoning mix.
- Add the radish and green onions into the kimchi paste and mix well with your hand. (Make sure to wear a glove!)
- Toss the salted and drained cabbage and mix well until everything is evenly combined.
- Transfer to an air tight container. Enjoy!
Homemade kimchi is surprisingly easy to make and requires no special equipment. It makes a great addition to rice dishes or a pork sandwich. This easy kimchi recipe is adapted from one in the Green Kitchen app by the publishers of the wonderful vegetarian blog, Green Kitchen Stories. I made this recipe for the first time about a year ago having never tried kimchi in my life. I was anxious to try kimchi because of all the buzz lately about how fermented foods are good for your health.
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