How can I make kimchi with everyday ingredients?
I've read about kimchi, which is a traditional Korean food made from vegetables. I'm not sure I can find Napa cabbage here in Hungary though - can I make it with regular vegetables?
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To answer your specific scenario, kimchi has myriad variations using any number of vegetables, from perilla leaves to Korean radishes to napa cabbage. There are forms of kimchi that involve no chilies (white kimchi), some involve a lot of water and bear little resemblance to the typical napa cabbage one (mul kimchi). The main constraints for Korean-ness of kimchi will be that you've fermented it (for all of the types that I can think of, anyway), and that it doesn't stray too far from familiar Korean flavor profiles (rules that you can break if you've got a deep enough foundation in Korean culinary traditions).
Napa cabbage isn't particularly hard to find in Europe, however, so I'm not sure why it would need to be substituted. For whatever reason, it was called "Chinese cabbage" in Germany; I'd be surprised if you couldn't find it. If I wanted to make the typical cabbage kimchi, the hardest thing would have been finding the right kind of chili powder, which I was able to obtain without too much trouble when I was a 20 year old student there many years ago. Then, the typical small bits of raw oysters or other kinds of fish or dried shrimp can reasonably be substituted with locally available ingredients (and some regions in Korea don't always use those ingredients anyway).
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What is the main ingredient in kimchi?
The mix is pickled and fermented, which was originally a way to preserve the vegetables for the winter months. Cabbage is the most common vegetable used to make kimchi although carrots, radish, cucumber, and scallions are also frequently used, too.How do you make easy kimchi?
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Raw materials used to make these kimchi are listed in Table 2. Vegetables most frequently used to make kimchi are cabbage, radish, young radish, cucumber, etc. Important spices used to prepare kimchi are green onion, garlic, red pepper powder, ginger, leek, mustard, black pepper, onion, and cinnamon.Can I use normal salt for kimchi?
The short answer is: You can use any salt sold in any grocery store to make Korean food. They are all salt, what makes them different is mostly the size and texture of the grains. Table salt is small and granular. Kosher salt is larger, and sea salt is large and flaky.My FAVORITE KIMCHI Recipe -- A Small Batch DIY | FERMENTED
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I made it without nappa. This is my recipe which turned out pretty good!!
Kimchi cabbage: Cabbage, salt, water 1. Rinse cabbage 2.Cut into strips 3.Rise again and put salt 4.Store in cool area. Wait 5-8hours Sauce: Celery, onion, garlic powder, garlic paste, ginger powder, chili powder, Hoi sin sauce Soy sauce, worchesteshire, stir fry sauce,sugar. 1.Chop Celery(carrots) and onion 2.Mix Garlic, ginger and Chili powder, add water till paste. 3.Mix veggies and paste, add garlic paste(I had found my store bought one.) 4.Add sugar 5.Add liquids and mix. 6.Add sesame seeds(and chilli flakes) Then Mix.
After 8 hours: 1. Rinse cabbage then add a bit of salt. 2. Mix paste with cabbage(make more paste if needed) 3. Enjoy :)
Try white rice with Kimchi.
When mixing things I estimated how much to put since I only had a bit of cabbage, put however much you'd like!
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