Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, budae jjigae. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Budae jjigae is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Budae jjigae is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Assemble the main ingredients (except for instant ramen noodles, rice. Baked beans, cabbage, dried anchovies, dried kelp, garlic, green onion, hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, kimchi, onion, polish sausage, pork, pork belly, pork shoulder, radish sprouts, ramyeon, salt, shiitake mushrooms, sliced rice cake, soy sauce, spam, spinach, starch noodles. Budae jjigae - a Korean stew made with kimchi and American processed meats such as Spam Budae jjigae (Army stew) is easy to make.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook budae jjigae using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Budae jjigae:
- Take 200 g minced beef
- Get 100 g thin rice noodles
- Make ready 200 g can Spam, drained, cut into 5 mm-thick slices
- Prepare 2 American hot dogs, cut into thirds, scored widthwise
- Get 250 g firm tofu, drained, cut into 5 mm-thick slices
- Take 200 g small shiitake mushrooms, trimmed
- Make ready 220 g can baked beans
- Take 1 cup kimchi (see Note)
- Take 2 litres (8 cups) chicken stock
- Take 1 tbsp fish sauce
- Take 1 small leek, white part only, halved lengthwise, thinly sliced, soaked in cold water for 10 minutes
- Prepare 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- Make ready 120 g packet ramen instant noodles
- Get 2 pre-packaged cheese slices
- Get sliced spring onions, sliced chillies and bean sprouts, to serve
- Get gochujang sauce
- Take 70 g (1/4 cup) gochujang (see Note)
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- Make ready 3 cm piece ginger, finely grated
- Get 2 tbsp caster sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp powdered fermented soybeans (see Note)
- Prepare 1 tbsp sesame oil
- Make ready 2 tsp chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp rice vinegar
Budae Jjigae is also called Korean army stew. Its rich spicy broth is made with aromatics, ground meat, and noodles, topped with sausage, veggies and runny egg yolks. Or as part of this budae jjigae dish. Without further adieu, here is a great recipe to try at home.
Steps to make Budae jjigae:
- To make gochujang sauce, place all ingredients in a small bowl and stir to combine.
- Combine beef and 1 tbsp gochujang sauce in a small bowl and marinate for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cook rice noodles according to packet instructions. Drain.
- In a large casserole pan, arrange Spam, hot dogs, tofu, mushrooms, baked beans, kimchi and beef.
- Place chicken stock in a large saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a rapid simmer. Stir in fish sauce and remaining gochujang sauce. Gently pour hot stock mixture over ingredients in casserole pan (taking care to keep arrangement intact), cover and simmer gently over medium heat for 15 minutes or until beef is just cooked.
- Add leek, onion and ramen noodles (without seasoning mixture from packet) and push gently to submerge in broth. Cook, uncovered, for 6 minutes or until noodles are cooked. Turn off heat, place cheese slices over the centre of the stew and stand for 5 minutes, or until melted. Scatter with spring onions, chillies and bean sprouts.
- To serve, divide rice noodles between bowls and top with stew ingredients and liquid. - - NOTES - - Resting time 5 minutes - Kimchi is from Korean food shops. - Gochujang is a Korean red pepper paste and is available from Korean food shops. - Powdered fermented soybeans are from Korean or Asian food shops. Substitute with tamari, a sweeter alternative to soy sauce, from supermarkets and health food shops.
Budae jjigae - A recipe from The Korean War. Budae Jjigae (aka Army Base Stew) is the recipe that tastes good any time of the year. Budae Jjigae came from a time in history when Korea was rebuilding and recovering. Budae Jjigae, or army stew, originated shortly after the Korean War when food was scarce and many Koreans were starving. Food was smuggled from American military bases.
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