Hello fellow Steemians!
As Spring has finally come along in Australia, I'm relieved. I dislike the cold and Winter is by far my least favourite time of the year. It's cold, dark, gloomy and I never want to get out of bed. However as we leave the cold behind and say hello to the warmth of Spring one thing I will miss is all the comfort food that we enjoyed during Winter.
One such example is the all-time favourite Budae-Jjigae!
This translates to army-base stew and I think is more popular in Korean towns in Western countries rather than in Korea itself (as I didn't see this anywhere when I went to Korea??) - correct me if I'm wrong! I know a lot of my Korean friends eat this at home and so one day I decided to do an easy, step-by-step walkthrough.
Less words + more pictures = win for everyone!
1. Empty hot pot on the burner.
2. Add white radish (can find this at any Asian grocery store and also western ones, it's a long, big white vegetable)
3. Add kimchi (I use store-bought from Asian grocery stores as it's Korean-made and much better than what I could make...also less time consuming)
4. Add sliced green onions / scallions
5. Add your choice of mushrooms...I went with enoki
6. ...and button mushrooms
7. Start adding your choices of meat. I started with veal frankfurts
8. Spam...I also added tofu in this step!
9. ...and more meat, I added fish tofu and also fish balls with roe inside (my favourite!!)
10. Vegetables...my choice was good old bok choy :)
11. Noodles - I added Korean potato starch noodle.
12. ...and of course RAMEN. I used half a packet of the noodles from Shin Ramyun
13. ...add a few more ingredients (hot pepper paste mix, stock/broth) and in a few minutes...
(hope this GIF works, first time trying!!)
Thanks for reading and let me know if this is something you guys eat regularly too in the cold Winter months! Or suggestions for other recipes - I'm open to any comments and feedback of what you want to see more of.
