Kimchi from Pekinese cabbage

No Korean can imagine a meal without a salad. Kimchi - a traditional snack from salted or pickled vegetables. Cooked in this way, they have a very beneficial effect on the body, thanks to beneficial bifidobacteria, ripening during fermentation. One of the types of kimchi is a salad of Peking cabbage, which is very popular in Korea. It is marinated with various spices and additives and due to this it acquires an acute taste. Kimchi is sure to like many.

How to cook kimchi in Korean?

Traditionally, they cook kimchi in the summer. Most likely, this is because at that time there are a lot of apples and pears used for marinade in the market, well, the Peking cabbage itself is in abundance here. Keep the dish in the refrigerator long enough, you can fold the Korean salad of kimchi into cans, close the lids and enjoy it all winter.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Cabbage kimchi according to a classic recipe, is prepared from Peking cabbage. For cooking, take 2 heads, wash, cut into 4 parts and remove the stump. Then each quarter is cut into square pieces about 2.5 cm in size. Pour in a bottle (or other dishes) water, add salt, stir until completely dissolved and poured into a bowl with cabbage.

While all this is marinated (about 3-4 hours), we prepare the following ingredients. Apple, pear, ginger, onions, garlic and sugar, grind in a blender, radish rubbed on a grater, chop the green onions with feathers for 5-6 cm. Mix all the products in a deep bowl, add the red pepper, mix thoroughly and lay our cabbage, washed from salt and wrung out in a colander. Stir and leave the future Korean kimchi kimchi marinate for two days at room temperature. Then, we send it to the refrigerator, where it will be stored.

The recipe for kimchi from Chinese cabbage

If you decide to do this salad, then you can let your imagination run wild. In the recipe for the preparation of kimchi, you can add any spices to your taste: soy sauce, vinegar, fish or anchovy sauces, chili. The main thing - do not forget about red ground pepper, which you can buy from Koreans.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Peking cabbage washed, cleaned from the upper leaves, cut into 4 parts and remove the stump. Then, cut into pieces (squares) about 2-3 cm, add to a deep bowl and cover with salt. We close the dishes and let them stand for 24 hours in a cool place. After a day, mix the cabbage and drain the juice. Onions cut into thin semirings, garlic is cleaned and squeezed out. At the chili we remove the peduncle, finely chop it. Ginger rubbed on the grater. All the ingredients are mixed and added to the cabbage. Mix the soy sauce, which we decided to use in the recipe of Korean cabbage kimchi with sugar, paprika and vinegar, add a little water and pour into the cabbage. Cover the lid and let it stand in the fridge for about 2-3 days. As you can see, the recipe for kimchi from Peking cabbage can be prepared without a pear or apple, its taste will turn out slightly different, but not less piquant.