Hey everyone!
I would like to make Nabak Kimchi 나박김치, but pretty much all recipes I could find contain minari 미나리 which is not readily available here (Germany). So I was wondering if theres anything I could use as a substitute?
If anyone can link a good recipe without minari, that'd be great too. If your Recipe is in Korean that's ok...my korean is fairly limited but I can understand most recipes :P
Regards,
Grey
This is close to the recipe I use: http://www.chow.com/recipes/11297-nabak-kimchi-pink-water-kimchi
I'll find where I wrote my recipe down and get it to you...
Hanaone has a nabak kimchi recipe I've made that doesn't use minari. It's very tasty, especially as it ferments.
http://www.hannaone.com/Recipe/nabakkimchi.html
Good luck!
Minari is very simlar to watercress, which is why you will always find watercress in korean markets. Try substituting watercress if you can't find minari.
Koreans are incredibly resiliant people. If an ingredient isn't available, they adapt. Never feel that a recipe is the last word, and that you can't change it! Case in point - some veggies are only available in the summer. Does this mean that Koreans don't eat Bibimbap in the winter? Of course not! They simply make different panchans using winter ingredients!
I have made kimchi with minari, watercress, ssukat, mustard greens, and none of the above, and more than one of the above. Use what you like (within reason - I wouldn't use basil or sage, or something that obviously doesn't work with the basic Korean flavors of soy and sesame) and readily available. Don't avoid making something because you can't find an ingredient!
When my mom came west in the 1950's she couldn't get most Korean ingredients, but she adapted. No paechu - use american cabbage. No kochukaru - use whatever hot peppers you can find that have the right character (scotch bonnets are too fruity). No short grain rice - find another rice that you can deal with.
Don't feel restricted by a recipe. I am sure Maangchi would encourage you to substitute other veggies if one she recommended was not available. Better to approximate the flavor than not even try to get close!
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