Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, simple korean army stew or budae jjigae. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Some facts about Army Stew (Budae Jjigae) Army stew or army base stew (Budae Jjigae) is Korean fusion stew that incorporates American style processed food such as spam, sausages, canned baked beans and sliced cheese. Budae (부대) is a general term for a military base in Korean and Jjigae (찌개) is a term for soup/stew. This spicy budae jjigae stew is a traditional Korean army base dish made with sausage, ramen noodles, and kimchi that will please a crowd.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have simple korean army stew or budae jjigae using 22 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae:
- Make ready 6 cups chicken stock
- Make ready 200 g SPAM cut into cubes
- Get 200 g mushroom (enoki and or oyster mushrooms)
- Get 200 g shitake mushrooms
- Prepare 6 cocktail sausages cut thinly
- Take 3 instant ramen noodles
- Make ready Half a cup of cheese(cubed or 2 slices)
- Get 1 cup kimchi (bite-sized)
- Get 1 Napa cabbage (cut and sliced)
- Take 100 g Rice cakes (Tteokbokki) or replace with kikiam
- Make ready 100 g tofu (sliced or cubed)
- Make ready 4 cobs cooked corn or 1 can of sweet corn kernels
- Get 2 tablespoons Korean chili paste (Gochujang)
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon sugar
- Get 1 tablespoon Korean chili flakes
- Prepare 1 tablespoon garlic (minced)
- Take 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- Make ready Green onions
- Take 1 teaspoon cooking oil
- Prepare I added corn instead of baked beans
- Make ready I also removed kelp and anchovies because I don't like them
As a dish it originated soon after the end of the Korean war. At a time when food was scarce in Korea people started to use surplus food from US army bases such as spam, hot dogs and sliced ham. Today, budae jjigae is a popular Korean dish with lots of seasonal ingredients such as mushrooms, kimchi, tofu and minced beef. What I love about this delicious stew is that the preparation is really easy (mostly involving cutting and slicing the ingredients).
Steps to make Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae:
- Cook garlic in oil until golden brown. Set aside so it doesn't burn.
- Assemble the ingredients (except for the ramen noodles, rice cakes, green onions, napa cabbage, corn and cheese) in a pot. Mix the Korean paste with soy sauce, chili flakes, sugar, and fish sauce and add the mixture to the pot. Pour the stock and bring to boil on medium heat (about 10 mins). Reduce heat and let simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Add the remaining ingredients – garlic, instant ramen noodles, rice cakes, green onions, napa cabbage (I like my napa cabbage crunchy), corn and add cheese on top of the pot and boil uncovered until the noodles are cooked (about 2 to 3 mins).
- Serve with steamed rice (& with other Korean side dishes). Or if doing hot pot, reduce the heat to low (using a portable burner) and share the food at the dinning table.
Some Korean dishes have a sad history behind. This spicy looking stew called Korean army stew, aka "budae jjigae (부대찌개)", is one them. Today I'm showing you the recipe for a much-requested dish: Budae-jjigae a.k.a "Army Base Stew." It's a spicy, savory, Korean-American fusion dish made from an umami-rich broth, Korean hot pepper paste, flakes, kimchi, and American Spam, beans, and sausage. You're going to love this recipe. Bourdain sourced this one from the other side of the globe. "This is known as Korean army stew, created, according to legend, from scrounged army PX canned goods.
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