Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew)

Korean

Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew)

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Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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.

30 min Medium Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Slice the luncheon meat, drain the kimchi a little and chop it, and slice the tofu and onion.

  2. Arrange the meat, tofu, kimchi, baked beans, and onion in sections around a wide shallow pot.

  3. Whisk the gochugaru, gochujang, soy sauce, and minced garlic with the water and pour it into the pot.

  4. Bring to a boil at the table or on the stove and simmer 12 minutes until everything is heated through.

  5. Add the noodle brick in the last 3 minutes so it cooks directly in the broth, then scatter with scallions and serve bubbling hot.

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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 Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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. Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew) carries gluten, shellfish, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew)
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
460 kcal
Protein
20 g
Carbs
33 g
Fat
28 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
5 g
Sodium
1790 mg
Saturated fat
10 g

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

When to cook it

Budae-jjigae (Army Base Stew) takes about 30 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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