Korean cooking ingredients:

Edible chrysanthemum

Ssukgat (쑥갓) , edible chrysanthemum has fresh herb like flavor. You can eat it raw or cook to make side dish. This vegetable is very important for good maeuntang (spicy fish soup).

17 Comments:

  1. Sylvia

    I am growing Ssukgat in my garden. They are tiny plants now but I am taking good care of them. I love the spicy herby flavor of this vegetable.

    Posted June 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm | #
    • Maangchi New York City My profile page
      joined August 6, 2008

      oh, I envy you! : ) Ssukgat is my favorite vegetable which has herbal flavor. Check my spinach side dish recipe and use ssukgat instead of spinach to make ssukgat namul!

      Posted June 26, 2009 at 9:31 am | #
      • Velia

        Can I use dried watercress too in the spinach side dish recipe? Or do you have any interesting recipes for watercress?
        I’m kind of stalking you today, sorry about that :)

        Posted October 18, 2009 at 6:29 pm | #
  2. bibi

    I read that you can eat it raw. I vaguely remember eating it raw in some dishes at Korean restaurants, but don’t remember which dishes. What other dishes do you recommend we put it in? Can we put it raw in hwedupbap?

    PS – you’re wonderful!!

    Posted April 12, 2009 at 8:53 pm | #
  3. armie

    hello…its me again!!!!!!!!!! thank you very much for your reply….

    actually it is not my recipe and i just assumed that it is called ogokbap…..

    i eat this food last saturday when i went to finch…. i got curious when i passby one restaurant and saw a picture of that rice with the soodubu jjigae outside there window and it looks delicious. the restaurant named that as soondubu jjigae with HEALTHY/NUTRITIOUS RICE in stone pot.

    Posted October 27, 2008 at 1:25 pm | #
  4. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    armie,
    Yes, all they are the same.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_chrysanthemum

    Why don’t you talk about your ogokbap recipe on the forum here?
    http://www.maangchi.com/talk/forum/general-discussion

    My ogokbap recipe doesn’t use ginseng, jujubes, chestnuts, pine nuts… I use 5 different kinds of grains. ogok means 5 grains.

    I am planning to post the recipe later. Meanwhile you can ask your question on the forum, then someone else may give you better answer.

    Posted October 26, 2008 at 7:30 am | #
  5. armie

    hi…..is edible chrysanthemum and crown daisy are the same…. i went to galleria plaza yesterday and i saw the same vegetable above but the name on the tag is crown daisy and also the perilla leaves and sesame leaves, are they the same?…. thanks…..

    and how to cook ogokbap (white and black rice with chestnut, pine nuts, jujubes, ginseng, peas) in stone pot? hope the you can email me the way to cook it…..thank you very much….

    Posted October 26, 2008 at 5:40 am | #
  6. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    Marty,
    oh, your chrysanthemum is really edible because you are still alive! lol
    Thank you for updating your successful maeuntang making.
    Keep taking care of your precious ssukgat plant so that you could enjoy the flavor all the time. : )

    Posted October 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm | #
  7. Marty

    wow my god!! it was so great i am still eating maeuntang it is so wonderfull chrysanthmum have very nice herby flavour i didnt added minari but it is so good maangchi japanese food was my fav. but now its korean thanks for making so nice video plz can you make more spicy food

    byee!

    Posted October 11, 2008 at 10:51 am | #
  8. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    Marty,
    You saw I was tasting fresh ssukgat in the video. Don’t worry! You will love the flavor of the vegetable.

    Posted October 10, 2008 at 6:39 am | #
  9. Marty

    yes its edible i want to make maeuntang i have all ingredients of soup but i m little scared of using that chrysanthemmum

    Posted October 9, 2008 at 11:55 pm | #
  10. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    Marty,
    Are you sure the plant you are growing is edible chrysanthemum? You said 1 chrysanthemum plant which makes me worry. : ) Check out Wikipedia to make sure the plant you are growing is edible.

    Posted October 9, 2008 at 9:07 am | #
  11. Marty

    hey i have one chrysanthemum plant at my home flowers grow in it i dont know but can i use that?

    Posted October 9, 2008 at 8:08 am | #
  12. Maangchi New York City My profile page
    joined August 6, 2008

    Sylvia,
    I described a little more about the vegetable for you.

    Posted October 2, 2008 at 6:46 pm | #
  13. Sylvia My profile page I'm a fan!
    joined September 10, 2008

    I always wondered what this was. I love this vegetable.

    Posted October 2, 2008 at 2:55 pm | #

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