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SO GOOD๐Ÿ˜‹ You won't be able to stop eating this! Water Kimchi [Nabak Kimchi] ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ฐ•๊น€์น˜ #kimchi

Updated: Jan 14




You are missing out if you never had Water Kimchi [NaBak Kimchi ๋‚˜๋ฐ•๊น€์น˜]. This kimchi broth is SO SATISFYINGLY DELICIOUS, with a slight tangy-savory fermented taste with a hint of spiciness. And the Napa Cabbage is crunchy and juicy with a burst of its natural sweetness from the inner core yellow leaves of the cabbage.


๐ŸฅฌThis is a SMALL BATCH recipe, so anyone can make this Water Kimchi at home!

๐ŸŒฑAlso includes Vegan-friendly modifications


๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๋ช…์ ˆ์Œ์‹ ๋“œ์‹ ํ›„ ๋Š๋ผํ•จ์„ ์žก์•„์ฃผ๋Š” ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ฐ•๊น€์น˜. ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์‹คํŒจํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฐ•๊น€์น˜ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ!


Below you'll find the following:

Ingredient List

Homemade Salt Fermented Shrimp Recipe๐Ÿฆ

Korean ingredient and suggested product links

Recipe Instruction

Suggested video recipes


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1 teaspoon ์ž‘์€ ์ˆ  = 5 ml

1 tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  = 1/2 fluid ounce, 15 ml, 15 cc

1 Cup ์ปต = 128 grams

1 lb = 450 grams


INGREDIENTS/์žฌ๋ฃŒ

Water Kimchi (NaBak Kimchi ๋‚˜๋ฐ•๊น€์น˜)

(Less than 4.6 liters)

530 grams Napa Cabbage (yellow part only) ์•Œ๋ฐฐ์ถ”

(substitution: green cabbage - yellow part only)

150 grams Korean radish ๋ฌด (substitution: red/pink radishes)


For Salt Brining ์†Œ๊ธˆ์— ์ ˆ์ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

2 Tablespoons ํฐ์ˆ  Fish Sauce ๋ฉธ์น˜์•ก์ “ (๐ŸŒฑVegan: Use vegan โ€˜fishโ€™ sauce, see Vegan Kimchi recipe below OR 2 Tablespoons Coarse Salt)

1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  Coarse Salt ๊ตต์€์†Œ๊ธˆ

1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  Plum Extract Syrup ๋งค์‹ค์ฒญ (substitution: brown sugar)


For Water Kimchi Broth: ๊น€์น˜ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

Part 1: Presoaking GoChuGaRu

1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  GoChuGaRu ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ (Red Pepper Flakes)

ยฝ Cup ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

Part 2: Blender Ingredients

1 Cup ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

ยฝ Large Korean Pear ๋ฐฐ (substitution: Sweet pear or apple)

ยฝ Medium Onion ์–‘ํŒŒ

1 Small Ginger (thumbnail size) ์ƒ๊ฐ•

4 - 5 Garlic Cloves ๋งˆ๋Š˜

1 Teaspoon ์ž‘์€์ˆ  Salt Fermented Shrimp ์ƒˆ์šฐ์ “ (Vegan: Omit)

Part 3: Kimchi Broth

8 Cups ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

3 Scallion ์ชฝํŒŒ

1 Green Pepper (Korean, serrano or jalapeno) ํ’‹๊ณ ์ถ”

1 Red Pepper ํ™๊ณ ์ถ”

Optional: Chili Thread ์‹ค๊ณ ์ถ”


๐ŸฆHomemade Salt Fermented Shrimp

Mix two parts raw shrimp (cut into chunks/no shell), and one part coarse salt (i.e. 1 Cup raw shrimp chunks & 1/2 cup coarse salt). Add one whole raw shrimp with the head and shell on, to the mixture. Place in a glass jar. Gently pack it down and add a layer of plastic wrap on top. Leave the jar in the refrigerator for a week. Then stir to mix and you should see some shrimp liquid. Pack it down again and add a layer of plastic wrap. Place it in the back part of the refrigerator and another week later, it should be ready for use. You can let this ferment for weeks. After 1 month of fermenting in the fridge, store it in the freezer.


๐ŸŒฑVegan Fish Sauce recipe belowโฌ‡๏ธ


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GoChuGaRu (Korean red pepper flakes, coarse ground) ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ

https://amzn.to/3Pv1mk2 (100% Made In Korea)

Fish Sauce (MyeolChiAekJeot) ๋ฉธ์น˜์•ก์ “

https://amzn.to/3QzBbsK

Plum Extract Syrup (MaeSilChung) ๋งค์‹ค์ฒญ

Korean Coarse Salt ๊ตต์€์†Œ๊ธˆ

https://amzn.to/3RRD5pq

Korean Chilie Threads ์‹ค๊ณ ์ถ”

Korean Kimchi Containers ๊น€์น˜ํ†ต

https://amzn.to/3SeMFTb (4.5 liters, used in the video)

https://amzn.to/3RP74hz (stainless steel)

Fine Mesh Strainer

Blender

Glass Mixing Bowls:3 Piece Set

9 Piece Set

16 piece Knife Set

https://amzn.to/3c1CCB38"

Chef's Knife

Disposable Food Grade Gloves

https://amzn.to/3QIUkJg


Step One

In a mixing bowl, add the following ingredients and let it sit in room temperature while you prepare the rest of the ingredients:

  • 1/2 Cup ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

  • 1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  GoChuGaRu ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ (Red Pepper Flakes)

Step Two

Prepping The Napa Cabbage & Radish ๋ฐฐ์ถ”์™€ ๋ฌด ์ค€๋น„

Cut the Napa Cabbage down the middle back half. Use your hands to split open the cabbage, starting from pulling apart from the cut half by the root area, as demonstrated in the video 01:09. Repeat the process and cut the halves into quarter Napa cabbage. Cut the root end off. We are only using the yellow inner-core leaves of the cabbage.

  • WHY the yellow leaves only? The yellow inner-core leaves are extra sweet. Water Kimchi is made with only the yellow inner-core leaves of the Napa cabbage.

  • 530 grams Napa Cabbage (yellow part only) ์•Œ๋ฐฐ์ถ” (substitution: green cabbage - yellow part only). Rinse well in running cold water and let it drain in a strainer to remove the excess water.

  • 150 grams Korean radish ๋ฌด (substitution: red/pink radishes)

Any leaves that are shorter than 3 inches long, put aside to make Fresh Kimchi (GeotJoRi ๊ฒ‰์ ˆ์ด), see below for recipe video.

For the outer leaves of the Napa cabbage, you can make Napa Cabbage Pancakes, see below for recipe video. It is juicy and crunchy way to enjoy Napa Cabbage Pancakes.


Cut the yellow leaves into bite size pieces (small enough to fit on your large spoon). Then place the cut yellow leaves in a kimchi container.

Cut the radish into thin slices and small enough to fit on your large spoon. Then add the sliced radishes to the kimchi container.


Step Three

Salt Brining ์†Œ๊ธˆ์— ์ ˆ์ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

2Add the following ingredients and mix well. Then pour the mixture to the cabbage leaves and radish slices in the kimchi container. Use your hands to mix well. Let this rest in room temperature for 20 minutes.

  • 2 Tablespoons ํฐ์ˆ  Fish Sauce ๋ฉธ์น˜์•ก์ “ (๐ŸŒฑVegan: Use vegan โ€˜fishโ€™ sauce, see Vegan Kimchi recipe below OR 2 Tablespoons Coarse Salt)

  • 1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  Coarse Salt ๊ตต์€์†Œ๊ธˆ

  • 1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  Plum Extract Syrup ๋งค์‹ค์ฒญ (substitution: brown sugar)

Step Four

Water Kimchi Broth ๊น€์น˜ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

In a blender, add the following ingredients and blend until pureed:

  • 1 Cup ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

  • ยฝ Large Korean Pear ๋ฐฐ (substitution: Sweet pear or apple), cut into chunks

  • ยฝ Medium Onion ์–‘ํŒŒ, cut into chunks

  • 1 Small Ginger (thumbnail size) ์ƒ๊ฐ•

  • 4 - 5 Garlic Cloves ๋งˆ๋Š˜

  • 1 Teaspoon ์ž‘์€์ˆ  Salt Fermented Shrimp ์ƒˆ์šฐ์ “ (๐ŸŒฑVegan: Omit)

In a large mixing bowl, add 6 cups of water. Place the large mesh strainer in the water bowl. then pour the GoChuGaRu/water that has been soaking.

  • 1/2 Cup ์ปต Water ๋ฌผ

  • 1 Tablespoon ํฐ์ˆ  GoChuGaRu ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ (Red Pepper Flakes)

Stir to gently strain the GoChuGaRu liquid into the water bath. Then pour the pureed blender mixture to the mesh strainer and gently stir to strain through all the mixture. Once you have strained and left with the residue in the mesh strainer, pour the 2 cups of water to do a final straining rinse. Once complete, discard the remaining residue. Pour the liquid mixture in the kimchi container. Using a spoon, mix the liquid well to help any undissolved salt dissolve into the liquid.

Then add the following ingredients to the kimchi container, and mix well again. Wait about 5 to 10 minutes before tasting the liquid.

  • 3 Scallion ์ชฝํŒŒ, cut into 1" in length

  • 1 Green Pepper (Korean, serrano or jalapeno) ํ’‹๊ณ ์ถ”, cut in half-long way, remove the seeds using a spoon, and cut into long strips

  • 1 Red Pepper ํ™๊ณ ์ถ”, cut in half-long way, remove the seeds using a spoon, and cut into long strips

Mix well again before taste testing the liquid. At this point, the kimchi broth should taste just slightly salty (just salty enough that you can drink the liquid). If the broth tastes too bland, add some coarse salt (not more fish sauce). Make sure to thoroughly dissolve the salt before tasting again. Once you are satisfied with the saltiness of the broth, add a small amount of the dried chili threads.

  • Optional: Chili Thread ์‹ค๊ณ ์ถ”

Step Five

Water Kimchi Storage & Fermentation ๊น€์น˜ ์ˆ™์„ฑ

Always make sure that there is an inch of space to the rim of the kimchi container. Add a layer of plastic wrap on top of the liquid. This is to ensure that all the pieces of vegetables are secured in the liquid, and not exposed to the air, while fermenting. Put the lid on, and place the kimchi container on your kitchen counter, away from the heat, and sun. Let the kimchi rest for 24 hours on your kitchen counter. If you have a hot kitchen (above 80 degrees), let it rest on your kitchen counter for 12 hours only. Then place the kimchi container in the fridge, and let it continue fermenting as you eat through it.


Now, the taste of kimchi fermentation is very unique to each individual. Some people enjoy eating the Water Kimchi right away. Some prefer waiting a week before eating. Some prefer a tangier taste and would wait 1 month fermenting in the fridge. For me, my favorite fermentation time for this Water Kimchi is between 4 to 6 weeks.


BONUS: Eating Tips

โ˜€๏ธDuring the summer months, especially when I don't want to cook, I enjoy a bowl of Water Kimchi with warm Korean rice. It sounds odd, but let me tell you how delicious and filling it is! Don't take my word for it, try it for yourself.

๐Ÿ Another way I enjoy Water Kimchi is with roasted sweet potatoes (GoGuMa ๊ณ ๊ตฌ๋งˆ). Wow, a piece of the fermented Napa cabbage with roasted/steamed sweet potato, is SO DARN GOOD! Ok, this only works with Korean sweet potatoes (aka Japanese sweet potato at your local produce department/beige flesh inside). I tried it with your conventional sweet potato/yam (orange flesh), definitely stick with Korean sweet potato. Then you wash it down with the fermented tangy liquid in between bites of your Korean sweet potato...SO YUM!


Bon appรฉtit๐Ÿ˜‹


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kalmekel
Mar 31

Having an easy to find way to print the recipe would be absolutely wonderful!

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