Dwenjang Guk (Spicy, Hearty Korean Style Miso Soup). Dwenjang Guk (Spicy, Hearty Korean Style Miso Soup) There are some elaborate Korean soups and stews that take quite a bit more work to make, but Dwenjang Guk (DWENjahng GOOHK) – dwenjang meaning Korean style miso and guk meaning soup – is a super simple and basic recipe to which some kind of greens (usually spinach and or some kind of. Korean Cabbage soup or Baechu Deonjang Guk/Baechu Dwenjang Gook. Baechu Doenjang Guk made with Korean fermented soybean paste (pronounced 'dwenjang') is the ultimate comfort food for Koreans.
Bring the dwenjang soup to boil. As with doenjang jjigae (stew version), doenjang guk (soup) is also one of the most representative Korean home cooked dishes. While the stew version is typically hearty, thick and pungent, the soup is light and mild and has more broth. You can cook Dwenjang Guk (Spicy, Hearty Korean Style Miso Soup) using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Dwenjang Guk (Spicy, Hearty Korean Style Miso Soup)
- It’s 5 cups of unsalted stock (chicken, pork, beef, turkey and veg all work fine).
- It’s 5 cups of water.
- You need 1/2 of an onion, cut into thirds.
- It’s 4 of garlic cloves, peeled and crushed.
- You need 1/4 cup of dwenjang (or miso if you don't have dwenjang, but dwenjang is usually much more pungent).
- You need 2 Tablespoons of to 1/4 cup gochujang (Korean chili paste), depending on how hot you like things.
- Prepare 2 teaspoons of sugar (to round out the flavors and the salt from the pastes).
- Prepare of salt and/or fish sauce if needed to adjust the seasoning.
- You need 8 cups of leafy green veg, fresh or extruded (it'll look like a lot, but it will reduce quite a bit after cooking).
- It’s 1-2 of fresh jalapeños or serranos if you like a little extra heat and chili flavor (optional).
- It’s of Optional if you'd like protein (you can do one or the other, or half of each):.
- Prepare 1 pound of pork shoulder or beef stew meat cut into 1-inch cubes (optional, but it helps to have a little protein if you're going to make a meal of it).
- It’s of or.
- It’s 1 package of medium or firm tofu (usually 12 to 14 ounces), drained and cut into 1-inch cubes.
Spinach soybean paste soup (Si-geum-chi Doenjang-guk) has been a popular dish on the Korean dinner table for many years. It's very simple to make, and it's nutritious. Compared to doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew) , it's lighter in consistency and taste. Doenjang (Korean Soybean Paste – pronounced DEN-jahng) is a twin sister to Gochujang that is not spicy and lot more complex in flavor.
Dwenjang Guk (Spicy, Hearty Korean Style Miso Soup) step by step
- Put the stock, water, onion, garlic, dwenjang, gochujang, sugar, meat and any extruded veg into a large pot (fresh veg goes in later). Bring to a boil, covered, over medium high heat (should take 15 minutes or so)..
- Once it's come to a boil, turn the heat down to medium low and simmer, covered, for another 20 minutes before adding any fresh veg and tofu..
- Simmer another 10 minutes or so, then adjust the seasoning for salt. If you've added fresh veg and/or tofu, you will almost certainly need to adjust for the water they will release into the soup..
- Simmer another 15 minutes with the lid askew, adjust seasoning one last time if needed, and that's it!.
- If you want to have it with rice, you'll want to put the rice on to cook when you leave the soup to simmer the first time..
- It's always yummier with kimchi. Here's my kimchi recipe (which of course you would have to have made days to weeks in advance): https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/1567994-kimchi-easier-than-you-think.
- EXTRUDING LIQUID FROM GREENS: Just wash the greens, sprinkle them with salt, and let them sit for a couple of hours, tossing them 2 or 3 times during the process, letting the salt draw the moisture from them. After they've released the excess liquid, just give them a good swish in a big bowl full of clean water, and squeeeeeeeze all that liquid out. You can then freeze the greens for future use, or refrigerate them for 2 to 3 weeks before using..
Probably much less known than Gochujang outside of Korea. But in my opinion, it is one of the most amazing seasoning ingredient in Korean cuisine. Spicy Pork Bone Stew with Potatoes (Gamjatang) Last on our list of recipes using Doenjang, Gamjatang is a wonderfully hearty and spicy Korean stew made with pork neck bones (or pork ribs) and potatoes. Doenjang goes into the seasoning sauce along with Korean red chili paste (gochujang), chili flakes (gochukaru), anchovy sauce, and soup soy sauce. This week instead of making a Japanese style miso soup for breakfasts I made a Korean style miso soup.