Yeolmu mul kimchi is usually eaten in summer in Korea. Making Bibimbap with barley rice, doenjang jjigae, yeolmu kimchi, hot pepper paste and sesame oil is one of the most popular and delicious dinners in hot summer. My mouth is watering while writing this explanation!
Ingredients:
2 bunches of yeolmu (young summer radish), salt, flour, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, ginger, onion, green chili pepper, red chili pepper, and water.
How to handle yeolmu:
- Buy 2 bunches of yeolmu.
- Peel the radishes with a knife and remove the dead leaves.
- Cut it into pieces about 5 cm in length and put them into a big bowl. Add some water.
- Add some salt (½ cup) and mix it carefully. Let it sit in the salt for 30 minutes.
- 30 minutes later, turn it over to salt evenly and let it sit another 30 minutes (total salting takes 1 hour).
- Wash the salted yeolmu 3 times and drain in a colander.
Make paste for yeolmu kimchi:
- In a small pot, mix 1 tbs flour and 1 cup of water and heat it over medium heat.
- Keep stirring until the liquid thickens. When you see some bubbles, it means the porridge is cooked well.
- Add 1 tbs sugar (optional) and ½ cup of fish sauce (you can replace this with salt).
- Turn off the heat and cool it down.
Make yeolmu kimchi:
- Get a big stainless steel bowl.
- Slice half an onion, ginger (½ tbs), 2-3 red chili peppers, and 2-3 green chili peppers , 4 cloves of minced garlic, and put them into the bowl.
- Add 2 tbs of hot pepper flakes and mix it with a spoon
- Pour the cool porridge into the bowl and mix it.
- Add the clean yeolmu into the bowl and mix it .
*Congratulations! You made “yeolmu mul kimchi”! : )
- Transfer the yeolmu kimchi into a container or glass jar.
- Pour water into the container until all kimchi is submerged (you can use either purified water or boiled but cooled down water) and cover the lid.
- Keep it in room temperature for a couple of days.
- When the kimchi is fermented, keep it in the refrigerator.
*When you serve it, put some kimchi in a glass bowl or ceramic bowl and add some ice cubes
I love summer dishes with ice cubes in them. esp. neng myun!
I finally posted pix of my Korean cooking endeavors here. I followed your recipe for all of them, but I substituted paprika for hot pepper flakes in the kimchi jjigae. It was still delicious!
hellow Ann
thank you for showing me your cooking photos! Fantastic!
http://picasaweb.google.com/annemh2/Cooking
is this the kimchee that you can eat with noodles? and if so, can you tell us exactly which noodles to use?
Gina,
Yes, you can eat this kimchi with noodles. Actually any kind of kimchi goes with noodle soup. My favorite noodles are thin noodles called “so myeon” in Korean. I will post it on my blog soon.
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Hi - Can’t wait to try this. Could I use other kinds of greens to make it if i can’t find yeolmu? If so, which ones will work? thanks
anonymous,
Yes, you could make mul kimchi with other kinds of vegetables such as radish, watercress, or green mustard.
You’ll have to excuse this question since I’m pretty clueless, but is spinach ever used in kimchis like these? Thanks
catherine,
No problem, thank you for asking me. : )
Spinach will not be good material to make kimchi I guess. If you want, why not experiment?
This is a great website. Just a question, the ingredients list says garlic. But how much garlic?
kl1278,
Sorry, I did not write the amount of garlic in the recipe even though I am showing in the video. You will need to use 3 or 4 cloves minced garlic for this recipe.
your wonderful
Hi Maangchi
Thanks for all the great Korean recipes :)
Would it be ok to use cucumber instead of young summer radish to make this kimchi?
Fiona,
I usually don’t use this recipe for cucumber. Cucumber kimchi turns mushy easily. Ask this question on the forum. I hope someone else may give you good answer.
http://www.maangchi.com/talk/forum/general-discussion
How much salt should I use to replace the fish sauce.
Love your site!
Anonymous,
I can’t tell you exact amount, but how about using 1/4 cup-1/2 cup of salt instead of 1/2 cup of fish sauce? I mean start 1/4 cup salt and taste it and increase the amount if it’s too bland.
I think that even 1/4 cup of salt will be way too much salt to replace 1/2 cup of fish sauce. I don’t like fish sauce taste and usually I don’t even put any extra salt for cabbage kimchi or kkakdukki. The vegetables absorb a lot of salt that comes out into the sauce as it ferments. Maybe 1 - 2 tbsp would be enough?
I made yeolmu mul kimchi with radishes I grew in my garden!! yay for me, I am so excited about this accomplishment. I left it on the counter for 2 days it was nice and bubbly. It is DELICIOUS. Your recipe is easy to follow. I did watch the video a couple of extra times to be sure I had everything in the correct place and timeline.
Thank you again for helping us learn the wonderful cuisine of Korea.
wow, it sounds like you made delicious radish mulkimchi! Congratulation!
Hello Maangchi,
I had a lot of yeolmu in my garden and made a second batch of kimchi.
This time it’s fermenting much faster. I have bubbles within 24 hours instead of two days. I know that there are many factors affecting fermentation time, like yeast with bread dough. My kitchen was about the same temperature both times. I am wondering if salting time makes a difference. This time I had to leave it over an hour I got too busy.
I’m wondering if salting time a factor in fermentation time?