Here I’m introducing you to a Korean Chinese dish, jjampong. This noodle soup is one of the most popular dishes requested by my Youtube subscribers and blog readers.
Whenever I pronounce “jjamppong,” I think it sounds funny! “JJAM PONG!” : )
You need so many different ingredients to make good “jjamppong” as you will see in this video. It contains all the nutrients we need, so I can say a bowl of jjamppong is a wholesome, nourishing, and well balanced meal. You can skip some ingredients or replace some ingredients with ones more easily available to you.
I prepared 2 versions of jjamppong recipe here: spicy jjamppong and non-spicy jjamppong.
Pour 7 cups of water into a pot. Add 10 large dried anchovies (after removing heads and guts), a handful of dried kelp, half a medium sized onion, and 3 dried shiitake mushrooms.
Boil it for 10 minutes over high heat. Then lower the heat to low-medium and boil for 30 minutes more. Then set it aside
Second step:
make mixture of hot pepper flakes and vegetable oil
In a small bowl, mix 1½ tbs of hot pepper flakes and 1 tbs of vegetable oil.
*tip: The reason we make this mixture is to prevent the hot pepper flakes from floating in the soup when it boils. You can add or decrease the amount of hot pepper flakes and vegetable oil according to your taste.
Third step:
prepare seafood and meat
Cut squid in half lengthwise and then cut shallow the inside part of squid in a grid pattern.
Shell 3 large shrimp and 4 mussels per serving.
Cut ¼ cup of pork into thin strips.
Fourth step:
prepare vegetables
Slice some carrot, cabbage, napa cabbage, onion, and white mushrooms into bite sized pieces.
Cut leeks and green onions into about 7 cm in length. Add some bamboo shoots.
*tip: 3-4 cups worth of vegetables are used per serving.
Fifth step:
cook noodles
Boil water in a large pot and add the noodles. Cook for a few minutes, then drain and rinse in cold water.
*tip: When you cook the noodles, take a sample to see if it’s cooked fully or not. The noodles should be soft and chewy.
Now ready to cook!
In a heated pan, drop 1 tbs of vegetable oil, 2 cloves of garlic, and 1 ts of minced ginger and stir it until its color starts to change to golden brown.
Put pork strips into the pan and stir fry it for 2 minutes.
Put in vegetables (cabbage, napa cabbage, carrot , sliced onion, green onion, leeks, white mushrooms, and a few pieces of bamboo shoots) and stir for 3-5 minutes.
Lower the heat and put the mixture of hot pepper flakes and vegetable oil into the pot. Stir it.
Put in seafood (squid, shrimp, and mussels) and keep stirring.
Pour 5-6 cups of stock into the pan and boil it for about 5 minutes.
Skim off the foam from the top with a spoon.
Add 1 tbs of fish sauce, 1 tbs of oyster sauce, and a pinch of ground black pepper.
Ready to serve!
Put some noodles in a large serving bowl and pour the soup and cooked ingredients on top of the noodles.
Serve it hot.
Enjoy!
Non-spicy jjamppong
Ingredients
A can of non-sodium chicken broth, ¼ cup of pork (cut into thin strips), 3 large shrimp, 4 mussels, squid (¼ cup), garlic, ginger, vegetable oil, oyster sauce, fish sauce, ground black pepper, onion, carrot, green onions, leeks, white mushrooms, bamboo shoots, noodles, and Asian chives.
First step:
prepare seafood and meat
Prepare seafood by cutting squid into bite sized pieces, shelling 3 large shrimp, and washing 4 mussels.
Cut pork into thin strips (¼ cup worth).
Second step:
prepare vegetables
Cut some carrot, cabbage, napa cabbage, onion, and white mushrooms into bite sized pieces.
Cut leeks, green onions, and Asian chives into pieces about 7 cm long.
*tip: use 3-4 cups of vegetables per serving
Ready to cook?
Drop 1½ tbs of vegetable oil and 2 cloves of chopped garlic and 1 ts of minced ginger into a heated pan. Stir it until it starts to go golden brown.
Put pork strips into the pan and stir fry it for 2 minutes
Put vegetables (cabbage, napa cabbage, a few sliced carrot, onion, green onions, and leeks, white mushrooms, and bamboo shoots) into the pan and stir them for 3-5 minutes.
Put seafood into the pan and stir it for 1 minute.
Pour a can of chicken broth into the pan and 2 cans of water from the can (that’s a total of 5-6 cups of liquid).
Skim off the foam from the top with a spoon.
Add 1 tbs of fish sauce and 1 tbs of oyster sauce.
Put noodles into the boiling soup and cook for a few minutes until the noodles are cooked but still soft.
Turn off the heat and add some Asian chives (1/4 cup) and a pinch of ground black pepper.
Transfer it into a large serving bowl and serve it hot.
Soak 2 shiitake mushrooms in warm water for 3-4 hours and cut them into bite size in length.
Soak 4-5 clams in cold salty water (2 cups of cold water +1 tbs salt) for at least 3-4 hours and wash them and set them aside.
Cut radish thinly into about 3×4 cm size, 0.2-0.3 cm in thickness.
Place the sliced radish (about 1 cup), the pieces of mushroom, and some kelp in a pot.
Pour 6-7 cups of water into the pot and boil it over high heat for 20 minutes.
Make maeuntang sauce:
Place 7 cloves galic, ½ medium size onion, ½ tbs ginger, 2 tbs cooking wine (or soju), 2 tbs hot pepper flakes, 1 tbs hot pepper paste, 2 tbs fish sauce in the food processor and grind it for about 1 minute.
Set it aside.
Prepare fish:
Put a red snapper on a cutting board and clean out guts, remove scales and fins. Wash it in cold water, cut it into chunks, and set it aside. *tip: to save time, you can ask your fishmonger to do this for you
Prepare 4 large shrimp: remove the heads and intestines, wash them, and set aside.
Prepare vegetables:
Clean ssukgat (edible chrysanthemum) and cut it into 7 cm long pieces.
Clean minari (water dropwort) and cut it into 7 cm long pieces.
Cut out the bottom part of enoki mushrooms and wash and split them.
Slice some green onions, 1 green chili pepper, 1 red chili pepper,
After boiling stock for 20 minutes, open the lid of the pot and take out kelp.
Place chunks of the fish, shrimp, clams in the boiling stock.
Add the maeuntang hot sauce and boil it all over medium heat for 30 minutes. *tip: It might boil over from time to time. Open the lid and remove the floating foam from the top and then close the lid halfway
Add ½ ts of salt, enoki mushrooms, minari (water dropwort) and ssukgat (garland chrysanthemum), green chili pepper, red chili pepper, and boil a few more minutes before serving.
Your maeuntang is done!
Serving:
Put some fish soup in a bowl for each person and provide each person with a bowl to collect fish bones and serve with rice and other side dishes.
Cucumber kimchi is made by turning a cucumber into a pocket and stuffing it with vegetables and kimchi paste. It’s delicious, and goes well with radish soup. I’ll show you how to make both of them for one perfect, well-balanced, low-calorie meal.
Wash cucumbers and cut them in half. Make pockets out of cross slits. Don’t cut them all the way through. Put them in a big bowl
Sprinkle a half cup of salt onto the cucumber pieces, mix them carefully, and wait for 30 minutes
In a big bowl, place a quarter cup of fish sauce, a half cup of hot pepper flakes, 2 cloves of minced garlic and 1 tbs of sugar, and mix them with a spoon.
Chop Asian chives 1 inch (about 2 cm) in length (2 cups) and cut 3 green onions diagonally as the same size as the chives, shred some carrot (1/4 cup) , slice the onion (1/4 cup) thinly and place all this into the mixture of the seasoning paste. Mix it up with a spoon.
Wash the cucumbers and drain them. Stuff the seasoning paste into the slotted cucumber and put each cucumber into an airtight container. You can wear rubber gloves while stuffing, if you want to protect your hands.
Right after making it, you can eat it. But keep the leftover kimchii in the refrigerator.
Radish soup with beef (for 2-3 servings)
Ingredients:
Cut radish into diagonally and thinly (about 2½ cups) and put it into the pot and cook it over medium high heat
Chop beef brisket (150 grams) into small chunks and mince 3 or 4 cloves of garlic
When the soup starts boiling about 10 minutes after, add the chunks of beef and garlic and boil it about 15 minutes more over medium heat.
Skim the bubbles or stuff off the surface and add some fish sauce(depending on your taste) and put chopped green onions and cook 5 or 10minutes more over medium heat
Barley rice
Ingredients:
1 cup of uncooked rice, 1 cup of barley and 2½ cup of water.
Rinse the mixture of rice and barley in a pot.
Put 2½ cup of water and cover the lid of the pot.
Heat it over high heat until it boils, and stir it with a spoon a few times.
Miyuk guk is made of seaplant and is traditionally eaten on your birthday or after giving birth, but you can eat anytime you like. Miyuk is known to be rich in iodine and calcium and considered as food that helps lower cholesterol in your body.
Whenever I meet my mother, she recommends eating more “miyuk” and shows how much she enjoys it. She makes soup, salads with it. And also she wraps rice and sauce and eat it. We all believe it’s good food resource.
I used to have a stereotype about people from another culture that they wouldn’t like miyuk guk.
When I was in Korea, I had a friend Jeanne, an American nun who had been living in Korea for more than 35 years. She always told me how she loved Korea and Korea was like her hometown after living 35 years there! She loved all kinds of korean traditional food. Of course she could speak Korean just like a korean.
She said,”there is one thing I can’t like of korean food!” I asked, “What is it?” She said, “Miyuk guk”. I couldn’t help laughing because I expected some kind of weird korean food, but only miyuk guk. I was curious about why she doesn’t like it. She answered, “It’s slippery in my mouth, ooh, I don’t like the texture” I laughed again when I heard her point of view.
I hope she is doing well now. She must be living in somewhere in Chicago. I used to tease her, “Miss Jeanne, would you sit over here?” when we met a coffee shop sometime.
Soak 1 cup of dried miyuk in a big bowl for at least 30 minutes.
Drain the water from the sea plant and cut it into bite size
Place the soaked sea plant(about 4 cups) in a big pot and add 16 cups of water and boil it over high heat for 20 minutes.(later you may have to add more water if the soup is too thick)
Cut the beef brisket nto bite size pieces.
When the water starts boiling (about 20 minutes later), add the beef and 1 tbs of garlic. Boil it again for another 20 or 25 minutes over medium heat.
Add 4 or 5 tbs of fish sauce(add more or less depending on your taste) and drizzle a few drops of sesame oil before serving.
Seaplant salad (Miyuk muchim)
Ingredients:
7 cups of soaked miyuk (about 2 cups of dried seaplant)
6 tbs of soy sauce (more or less depends on your taste)
Soak 2 cups of dried sea plant (miyuk) in a bowl at least for 30 minutes and then drain the water from it.
Boil some water in a pot and add the soaked miyuk. Stir it with a spoon for 30 seconds .
Take out the seaplant and then rinse it in cold water. Drain the water out by squeezing the seaplant gently.
In a big bowl, put the seaplant and add 5 or 6 tbs of soy sauce, 4 or 5 tbs vinegar, 1 tbs of minced garlic, 1 tbs of sugar, 1 chopped green onion, and mix it up by hand.
Sprinkle some sesame seeds on the top and serve it cold.
In a big pot, add beef brisket, 14-15 cups of water, and half an onion, then boil it for 40-50 minutes over high heat.
Cut the green onions, celery, and fern brakes (kosari) into pieces about 7 cm in length. Put them all into a big bowl.
Put 3 tbs hotpepper flakes, 1 tbs of sesame oil, 1 tbs of vegetable oil, 1 tbs soy sauce, 1 tbs of salt, and some grounded black pepper into a small bowl and mix it. This is your hotpepper oil sauce.
Put the hotpepper oil sauce into the vegetables mixture and mix them all up.
When the beef is well cooked, take it out and set it aside to cool down.
Add the mixture of vegetables and hotpepper oil sauce into the boiling beef stock. Boil it for 20-30 minutes.
Slice the beef thinly and add it into the boiling soup. Cook it about 5-10 minutes more.
Wash and rinse your chicken in cold running water.
Soak 1/4 cup of sweet rice for 1 hour.
Stuff the chicken with the sweet rice, a ginseng root, a few jujubes, and 3-4 cloves of garlic. Place it in a pot.
Pour water into the pot and boil it over high heat for 20 minutes. When it starts boiling, skim off any foam and fat that rises to the surface Then pour in more water and boil it over medium heat for 40 minutes.
When it cooks properly, the chicken will be easily pulled apart by chopsticks.
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