Korean

Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup)

Name: Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 1/4 lb thinly sliced beef; 2 cups korean radish (mu); 1 tbsp sesame oil; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 garlic cloves; 5 cups water; 2 scallions

Minji @minji_bakes

Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the soup. 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

The quantities follow this count.

1/4 lb thinly sliced beef
2 cups korean radish (mu)
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 garlic cloves
5 cups water
2 scallions

How to cook it

Cut the radish into thin slabs.
Heat the sesame oil in a pot and stir-fry the beef until it just loses its pink color, about 2 minutes.
Add the radish and soy sauce and stir-fry 2 minutes more so the radish takes on a little color.
Pour in the water, add the minced garlic, and bring to a boil.
Simmer 15 minutes until the radish turns translucent and tender, then scatter with scallions and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup)

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

Korean beef and radish soup (Muguk, 무국)! Quick and easy! 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 Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Beef Bibimbap
  
  50 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. Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup) carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Kongnamul-guk (Soybean Sprout Soup)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Nothing comparable without it yet
Fish	No
Sesame	Yes	Aehobak-guk (Clear Zucchini Soup)
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: 100 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 3 g
Fat: 7 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

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

When to cook it

Mu-guk (Beef and Radish Soup) 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.