Korean cooking ingredients:

Fresh ginseng

Fresh ginseng is sold at a korean grocery store. I used this in the sam gye tang video ( ginseng chicken soup).

6 Comments:

  1. Anonymous

    Maangchi, My mother grows and cooks with two ginseng like plants. I am trying to find more information on this, but do not know how to spell it. One sounds like “dosari” and the other like “da duck”. She said it is very good for your health. It tasted excellent!

    Posted May 31, 2009 at 5:53 pm | #
  2. Maangchi New York City
    joined August 6, 2008

    coeruleo,
    Did they put dried ginseng in the package? If so, they shouldn’t! Fresh ginseng that’s what you need. Use just one root in each serving, Otherwise, the soup may be too bitter for you.

    Posted January 16, 2009 at 11:44 am | #
  3. coeruleo

    i used the samgeytang packages, and the chestnuts and ginseng were too hard. i think they should be boiled longer before making the soup to make them edible. the fresh ginseng and chestnuts probably don’t need to be cooked longer.

    Posted January 14, 2009 at 3:44 pm | #
  4. Maangchi New York City
    joined August 6, 2008

    Myla,
    The package of samgyetang contains small chicken, rice, jujubes,some soaked rice and a ginseng root. right? Yes, You can use it.

    Posted October 24, 2008 at 4:26 pm | #
  5. i already went to korean grocery,but they dont have a fresh ginseng they only have a package of samgyetang recipe i plan to make samgyetang tomorrow, is it ok if i used it???

    Posted October 24, 2008 at 10:42 am | #

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