Saturday, February 20, 2010

How To Make Kimchi

Ever wonder how kimchi is made? I will teach you the right way of making homemade kimchi. This kimchi tastes better than store-bought ones, I promise.

Just follow the instructions and you should be able to make your own very delicious and nutritious kimchi. Kimchi is the world's healthiest vegetable, don't you know?

Ingredients:
2 or 3 big chinese cabbages (I only used 2)
2 bunches of spring onions, sliced
Half of a big, long radish
1 small ginger
1 medium carrot
Plenty of sea salt
Half cup dried shrimp
1 1/2 cups chilli powder (use 1 cup if you don't like it to be hot)
4 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp sugar

 
Dried Shrimp

 
 Korean Chilli Powder


 Spring onions, radish, ginger, and carrot

 
 2 cabbages


Instructions:
  • Slice the cabbage in half. Make sure that you don't remove the core of the cabbage so that the leaves do not separate.
 
 


  • Wash properly the cabbages.

  • Remove excess water and we're now ready to salt.
  • Sprinkle salt to each of the cabbages' leaves.
 
  
 

  • Once all the cabbages have been salted, let it rest for 2 to 3 hours.
  • After 2 to 3 hours, wash each leaf of the cabbages to remove all the salt.
  • Remove excess water from the cabbages.
  • The leaves of the cabbages should already be flexible by now and easy to work with.
  • Set aside.
Now let's make the kimchi paste:
  • Peel ginger, radish, and carrot, then chop.
  • Put the chopped ginger, radish, and carrot in a blender.
  • Add 4 tbsp fish sauce and the dried shrimp into the blender.
  • Puree by pulsing. Make sure the veggies have been pureed very well.

  • Remove the veggies from the blender and put in a container.

  • Add the sugar and the chilli powder and mix well.
 
Use 1 cup of chilli powder if you don't like it to be very spicy.

  • Add the spring onion and continue mixing until incorporated.
  • We now have the kimchi paste.

  • This kimchi paste should be able to make kimchi from 3 big cabbages but I only used 2 cabbages so I just stored the excess paste in an airtight container.
We're now ready to make kimchi:

  • Spread paste into each leaf of the cabbages.
 
  
  
 
 
  • Store in a plastic container and then seal.

  • Refrigerate for 3 days and the kimchi should be ready for consumption by then.

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