Korean
Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
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Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the cabbage into quarters through the core, then rub salt between every leaf and soak in the water for 2 hours, turning once, until the stems bend without snapping.
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Rinse the cabbage three times to remove excess salt and let it drain well.
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Whisk the rice flour into a little water and simmer briefly into a thin paste, then cool.
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Stir the gochugaru, fish sauce, minced garlic, ginger, and sugar into the rice paste to make the seasoning.
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Mix the julienned radish and scallions into the seasoning, then work it between every leaf of the cabbage by hand, wearing gloves.
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Pack the cabbage into a clean jar or container, press down to remove air pockets, and let it sit at room temperature a day before refrigerating; the flavor deepens over the following week.
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Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Buchu-muchim (Seasoned Garlic Chives) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 340 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi) takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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