In our 13th episode, we introduce a healthy recipe of deliciously cooked rice served with various vegetables and ssamjang made with doenjang! Plus a favorite Korean soup, spinach doenjangguk.
Ssambap with vegetables, rice and ssamjang can be made with a wide range of ingredients. Spinach doenjangguk, made with doenjang and seafood, is another important food in Korea's culinary culture!
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Recipe
1) Ssambap
1. Mix pre-soaked rice, glutinous rice and black rice. Cook over high heat for 5 minutes in water. When it boils, turn down the heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes. When the rice is cooked,let it sit over low heat for another 10 minutes.
2. Put rice in a big bowl and season with 1Ts sesame seed oil and 1ts salt. Cover with plastic wrap.
3. Wash lettuce and sesame leaves and drain.
4. Blanch individual leaves of cabbage, napa cabbage and spinach with 1ts salt. Wash in cold water to remove warmth. Drain and remove excess water.
5. Cut prepared kelp in 10cm-long pieces and quickly cook in boiling water. Quickly take out when the color changes, wash in cold water and drain.
6. Mix all the ingredients for ssamjang to make ssamjang with nuts.
(4Ts doenjang, 1Ts gochujang, 2ts fine pepper powder, 1Ts oligosaccharide, 2ts sugar, 1Ts minced garlic, 1Ts onion juice, 1Ts sesame seeds, 1Ts chopped peanuts, 1Ts chopped walnuts,1Ts chopped pine nuts)
7. Take 1Ts of pre-seasoned rice and firmly wrap in any of the lettuce, sesame or cabbage leaves with 1g of ssamjang.
2) Spinach Doenjangguk
1. Trim the spinach and blanch 2-3 leaves at a time. Drain in cold water.
2. Wash clams or shrimp in cold water 2-3 times. Drain.
3. Cut green onions into 0.3cm pieces.
4. Make sauce with 3Ts doenjang, 2ts pepper powder, 2ts minced garlic.
5. Add seasoning to water. Add shrimp or clams and boil for 1 minute over high heat. Add spinach and boil over high heat for 5 minutes. Add green onions and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat.
