Kimchi Jjigae 김치찌개
Ingredients
Meat
- 180 g Skinless pork belly cut into bite size pieces (optional, use full tofu cube)
- 1 tbsp Mirin
- 3 sprinkles ground black pepper
Kimchi & Others
- ¾ cup Aged Kimchi cut into bite size pieces if not already
- ¼ small Onion thinly sliced
- ½ stalk Small green onion thinly sliced
- 2 small Shiitake mushrooms stems removed, thinly sliced
- 150 g firm tofu sliced into 1cm thickness rectangles, or other shapes you may prefer
- 1 cup water
Jjigae base, mix these in a bowl
- 1 tbsp Korean chili flakes gochugaru
- 1 tbsp Light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Korean chili paste gochujang
- ¼ tsp minced garlic
- 3 sprinkles ground black pepper
Instructions
- Marinate the pork belly with the rice wine and the ground black pepper for about 15 mins.
- Cook the Kimchi in a skillet until soft. You could do this in the pot where you will make this jjigae.
- Put the marinated meat into the bottom of the pot. Add all the other ingredients (Kimchi, onion, mushrooms, tofu and the base sauce) except for green onion into the pot.
- Boil the pot on medium high heat initially then reduce the heat to medium once it starts boiling. Cook further until the meat is cooked, about 10 to 15 minutes. Make sure the sauce is well blended into the rest of the ingredients. (This can be done by gently mixing the sauce around the soup with a small teaspoon and splashing the soup over other ingredients every now then). When the meat is cooked, add the green onion and turn the heat off.
- Serve with rice.
- DONE!