Korean

Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)

Name: Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 2.5 lb pork belly; 2 tbsp doenjang soybean paste; 6 garlic cloves; 1 tbsp grated ginger; 1 napa cabbage; 2 cups kimchi; 1/3 cup ssamjang (Korean dipping paste); 8 cups water

Seung-ho @seunghojang

Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps) is Korean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

100 min Involved Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb pork belly
2 tbsp doenjang soybean paste
6 garlic cloves
1 tbsp grated ginger
1 napa cabbage
2 cups kimchi
1/3 cup ssamjang (Korean dipping paste)
8 cups water

How to cook it

Bring the water to a boil with the doenjang, half the garlic, and the ginger.
Add the whole piece of pork belly, cover, and simmer 1 hour until fully tender when pierced with a chopstick.
Meanwhile separate the napa cabbage into individual leaves for wrapping and set the kimchi and ssamjang out for the table.
Rest the pork 10 minutes, then slice it into thin pieces just before serving so it stays warm and juicy.
Serve the pork alongside the cabbage leaves, kimchi, and ssamjang so each person wraps their own bite, a special-occasion, hands-on dinner.

Watch how to cook Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

보쌈 (Bossam) - Korean Pork Belly Wrap Play the video

Serve it with

A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Aehobak-guk (Clear Zucchini Soup)
  
  18 min
What it is eaten with
- Boribap (Barley Rice)
  
  35 min
The sharp little thing
- Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
  
  60 min
- Buchu-muchim (Seasoned Garlic Chives)
  
  10 min

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. Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps) carries gluten, shellfish, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Shellfish	Yes	Beef Bibimbap
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Fish	Yes	Beef Bibimbap
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: 690 kcal
Protein: 40 g
Carbs: 5 g
Fat: 57 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 630 mg
Saturated fat: 21 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps) takes about 100 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.