Soup kimchi - recipe

Despite its frighteningly unfamiliar name, kimchi is just the pickles that are customary for us, cooked in hot brine. Salted kimchi mainly from Peking cabbage, but sometimes the dish is prepared based on radish, kohlrabi or eggplant. Original Korean pickles over time moved to the open spaces of Japanese cuisine, but there, on the basis of spicy vegetables, began to prepare delicious and light kimchi soups, which have not only increased diet, but also anti-catarrhal properties. How to make kimchi soup and try its miraculous possibilities without going abroad, you will learn from the recipe below.

Spicy Japanese kimchi soup - recipe

The recipe for Japanese kimchi soup is different in different regions of the eastern archipelago, but the basic and most popular option still exists.

Ingredients:

• beef - 60 g;
• rice wine - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• pickles of kimchi (juice) - 1 item;
• onion - 1/2 pcs .;
• green onions - to taste;
• mushrooms Shiitake - ¼ st .;
• tofu - 70 g;
• soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• paste chili - 2 tsp.
• flakes of dried chili - 2 teaspoons;
• water - 1 ½ st .;
• salt, pepper - pinch;
• oil for frying.

Preparation

We chop the onions as usual, we cut kimchi pickles with cubes, and in the same way do with tofu. If you can not find a real kimchi, then use kimchi paste as a substitute, you can find it in almost any store in Oriental cuisine.

Meat cut into strips and marinate 15 minutes in rice wine with a pinch of black pepper. While it is marinated, slices of kimchi are put in a frying pan and fried for 5-7 minutes with vegetables, stirring constantly.

In a separate bowl, mix the soy sauce, chili paste and flakes, garlic and black pepper - this is the basis for soup. Note that the recipe given is very sharp. If you or your guests do not like spicy food - reduce the amount of these ingredients to taste.

In the pot, pour water, the basis for soup and lay meat and vegetables, mix everything and put it on the fire. Let the soup be puffed for 5 minutes, then we subtract the fire and wait for the meat to cook, as soon as it happens - try the dish, add water or a spicy base to taste and remove the soup from the fire. Before serving, the kimchi soup is decorated with sliced ​​green onions and tofu pieces. Bon Appetit!