Spicy Korean fish stew
Spicy Korean fish stew

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spicy korean fish stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

If you love seafood and spicy stews, I'm sure you'll absolutely love this one, called maeuntang in Korean and spicy fish stew (or soup) in English. It can be made with pretty much any type of fish but most importantly the fish should be fresh! In this recipe and video I use black sea bass, or nongeo in.

Spicy Korean fish stew is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Spicy Korean fish stew is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have spicy korean fish stew using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Korean fish stew:
  1. Make ready 1 lb whole fish(e.g. progie, bass, snapper, Flounder and etc)
  2. Prepare 2 cup mung sprouts
  3. Make ready 1/2 pack firm tofu
  4. Make ready 1 bundle mung glass noodle
  5. Take 1 medium onion
  6. Prepare 1 cup leek
  7. Take 2 green onions
  8. Prepare 2 Tsp korean hot pepper flakes
  9. Make ready 2 Tsp soy sauce
  10. Get 2 Tsp honey or brown rice syrup or sugar
  11. Get 1 Tsp gochujang
  12. Take 1 Tsp garlic paste
  13. Prepare 1 tsp ginger paste
  14. Take 1 Tsp white toasted sesame seeds
  15. Get 1 Tsp rice flour + 1/4 cup water to make starchy water

Add spiciness to that party and you'll take shiwonhada to the next level. This is Korean comfort food: a hearty yet delicate fish soup. Use your fingers and/or a small paring knife to extract any flesh from fish head and the collar. If you are also using a fish rack, you can extract a significant amount of flesh from it by holding one end and strumming your fingers along the bones.

Steps to make Spicy Korean fish stew:
  1. Flaky fish such as flounder, porgie, bass, red snapper (yellow tails) or mullet are great good choice for this recipe. Fresh mackerel is also very good but salmon or tuna are not good here. Boil the cleaned fish covered by water for 5 minutes.
  2. While the fish is boiling, make the paste by mixing hot pepper flakes with soy sauce, garlic ginger paste, gochujang, honey and starchy water. Set aside.
  3. Discard half of the cooking water (fish stock can be used for other dishes). Add the bean sprouts, cubed firm tofu, sliced onion and mung bean glass noodle. Stir in half amount of the sauce. Bring it to a boil and reduce to simmer and cook for 10~ 15 minutes. Make sure the simmering the liquid is not too much or too little (soak up by the glass noodle). Adjust seasoning with the remainder paste. Top with green onion and toasted sesame seeds. Serve with bread or rice.

We load our hearty spicy fish egg stew with garlic, pepper powder and gochujang. At restaurants, it comes out super spicy and super HOT, boiling like crazy Where can you buy pollock roe (Myeongtae Al 명태알)? If you have a decent Korean market nearby, they should have it in the freezer section. Koreans have an expression, "shiwonhada" (시원하다)—literally, "intensely refreshing and cooling"—that describes Add spiciness to that party and you'll take shiwonhada to the next level. To me, the dish that perfectly captures this experience is the spicy fish stew called maeuntang (매운탕).

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