Exotic Cuisine Korean Cuisine
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When choosing Chinese cabbage, don't choose too big one. We are not making hot pot. The middle-sized Chinese cabbage is just crispy and tender.
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The rinsed Chinese cabbage is spread flat on the cutting board, and cut from the middle of the Chinese cabbage with a sharp kitchen knife.
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Spread the flat side of half of the Chinese cabbage on the cutting board. Use a knife to cut into long strips about two centimeters wide for use.
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Peel the ginger and peel off the garlic for later use. First cut the dried red pepper into sections and set aside, then use a kitchen knife to chop the ginger and garlic into minced pieces, and then chop the dried red chilies into minced chili peppers for later use.
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The chopped Chinese cabbage strips are put into a clean special glass container. Add an appropriate amount of salt according to the amount of Chinese cabbage. My glass container is similar to a large soup bowl, and two spoons of salt is enough.
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Boil an appropriate amount of purified water, and quickly pour the boiling purified water into a glass container containing ginger, garlic, and dried red pepper; blanch the juice in the ingredients with boiling water. After pouring the boiling water into the ingredients glass container; don't worry; wait a while, you need the boiling water in the ingredients to cool down slowly.
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The Chinese cabbage that has been salted for twenty minutes is ready. Press the lid of the glass container in the opposite direction, hold the two handles tightly with both hands, and pour out the excess water that has been marinated.
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The cooled ingredients juice is slowly poured into the salt and disinfected; the Chinese cabbage has been put into the glass container.
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Prepare a bottle of 550ML of purified water and pour it into a glass container containing Chinese cabbage and ingredients; a bottle of purified water just submerged the Chinese cabbage. Put the lid of the glass container on and wait for a while.
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After removing the lid of the glass container, the Chinese cabbage was left for a while, and the flavor of the seasoning had penetrated into the Chinese cabbage. Stir the ingredients of Chinese cabbage evenly with special non-oily metal chopsticks. The well-stirred Chinese cabbage needs to be left for a while.
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The key to pickling Korean food is to have a good sealed environment.
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This is a foamed airtight container. If you don't have the same container, it doesn't matter. In the earliest days, remember that the elders used thick cotton quilts to keep the temperature of pickled kimchi. Close the lid of the foam-sealed container, and the marinating is complete.
Tips:
Tips for GODOFMERCY Moses Food Workshop:
1. Choose the right size Chinese cabbage. Too big Chinese cabbage; the outer leaves will peel off and discard too much as they are old, causing waste. The leaves of Chinese cabbage that are too small are too tender, so it is difficult to control the time when pickling them. The ones that are easy to pickle are too soft and don't have a crispy texture. Rinse the whole Chinese cabbage and prepare the whole dried red pepper and ginger.
2. The cooking of Korean food requires a constant temperature environment, and the temperature of the pickled Chinese cabbage must not fluctuate too much, so the Chinese cabbage will "catch a cold" and spoil. Keep it in an environment of 28 to 35 degrees Celsius for fermentation. Put the covered glass container in an ordinary supermarket plastic bag, tie the mouth of the bag tightly, and put it into a foamed airtight container.
3. Because Korean food can't be eaten at one time, you should pay attention to keeping it clean and hygienic when eating soaked Chinese cabbage. It is necessary to prevent grease and dirty things from mixing into the glass container, which will make the Chinese cabbage smelly and deteriorate.
4. Be sure to choose a glass container. Glass containers and chopsticks should not be stained with oil, and it is best to prepare special ones; if stained with oil, flowers will grow, and a serious bowl of Chinese cabbage will rot.
5. The glass container must be sealed well, and the lid should not be opened in the middle.
6. The kimchi water must be purified water, because the pure water has no precipitation, and the kimchi water can be drunk.
7. Everyone's hands are different, and the taste of kimchi made is different. My hands are sweaty, commonly known as: "stinky hands" are not suitable for kimchi. As long as you take the kimchi, a jar of kimchi water will be discarded. Up. However, there are also solutions, which can be solved by wearing disposable gloves.
8. If sauces, canned bottles or glass bowls are used to make Korean dishes, they must be oil-free and water-free. After cleaning the bottles, cook them in a pot for 5-10 minutes, and then drain the bottles.
9. To cook this dish in summer, put it in the refrigerator. You can usually eat it the next day, but it tastes better if it is left for 3 days.
10. It doesn't matter if there is no airtight container like mine, just wrap it in thick towel or old clothes.
11. Don't eat it all at once; don't eat it directly with chopsticks. This will contaminate the whole bowl of Chinese cabbage and make the Chinese cabbage soft and sour. It can be packed in a fresh-keeping box; put it in the refrigerator and take out some of it with special clean chopsticks when eating; be careful not to get raw water in it.
12. There are different periods of acidity in different periods. You must accurately grasp the time. If you can't remember, you can paste the start and end times on the lid to effectively grasp the taste of Korean cuisine.
13. Put salt in the Chinese cabbage, one is to taste, the other is to disinfect with salt, and the third is to make the hard-boiled Chinese cabbage a little softer. After putting the salt in the Chinese cabbage, lift the glass container with both hands and shake it up and down to distribute the salt evenly on the Chinese cabbage.
14. Rinse the ginger and remove the skin of the ginger. The ginger skin of pickled kimchi is shaved to prevent unhygienic conditions. In fact, the skin of ginger is very nutritious. If you need to keep the ginger skin, soak the ginger in light brine for more than 20 minutes.
15. You can put North Korean food in the refrigerator