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This spicy budae jjigae stew is a traditional Korean army base dish made with sausage, ramen noodles, and kimchi that will please a crowd. Some facts about Army Stew (Budae Jjigae) Army stew or army base stew (Budae Jjigae) is Korean fusion stew that incorporates American style processed food such as spam, sausages, canned baked beans and sliced cheese. Budae (부대) is a general term for a military base in Korean and Jjigae (찌개) is a term for soup/stew.
Budae jjigae is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Budae jjigae is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook budae jjigae using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Budae jjigae:
- Prepare 200 g minced beef
- Make ready 100 g thin rice noodles
- Prepare 200 g can Spam, drained, cut into 5 mm-thick slices
- Prepare 2 American hot dogs, cut into thirds, scored widthwise
- Make ready 250 g firm tofu, drained, cut into 5 mm-thick slices
- Take 200 g small shiitake mushrooms, trimmed
- Get 220 g can baked beans
- Take 1 cup kimchi (see Note)
- Get 2 litres (8 cups) chicken stock
- Take 1 tbsp fish sauce
- Make ready 1 small leek, white part only, halved lengthwise, thinly sliced, soaked in cold water for 10 minutes
- Make ready 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- Prepare 120 g packet ramen instant noodles
- Make ready 2 pre-packaged cheese slices
- Get sliced spring onions, sliced chillies and bean sprouts, to serve
- Prepare gochujang sauce
- Prepare 70 g (1/4 cup) gochujang (see Note)
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- Take 3 cm piece ginger, finely grated
- Prepare 2 tbsp caster sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp powdered fermented soybeans (see Note)
- Prepare 1 tbsp sesame oil
- Take 2 tsp chilli powder
- Take 1 tbsp rice vinegar
Budae jjigae (부대찌개) is a fusion dish that incorporates American processed meats such as Spam, ham, bacon, and hot dogs into a Korean stew with kimchi. Budae is a general term for a military base in Korean, but budae jjigae is translated into "Army stew" or "Army base stew" because of its origin. Budae Jjigae is also called Korean army stew. Its rich spicy broth is made with aromatics, ground meat, and noodles, topped with sausage, veggies and runny egg yolks.
Instructions to make Budae jjigae:
- To make gochujang sauce, place all ingredients in a small bowl and stir to combine.
- Combine beef and 1 tbsp gochujang sauce in a small bowl and marinate for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cook rice noodles according to packet instructions. Drain.
- In a large casserole pan, arrange Spam, hot dogs, tofu, mushrooms, baked beans, kimchi and beef.
- Place chicken stock in a large saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a rapid simmer. Stir in fish sauce and remaining gochujang sauce. Gently pour hot stock mixture over ingredients in casserole pan (taking care to keep arrangement intact), cover and simmer gently over medium heat for 15 minutes or until beef is just cooked.
- Add leek, onion and ramen noodles (without seasoning mixture from packet) and push gently to submerge in broth. Cook, uncovered, for 6 minutes or until noodles are cooked. Turn off heat, place cheese slices over the centre of the stew and stand for 5 minutes, or until melted. Scatter with spring onions, chillies and bean sprouts.
- To serve, divide rice noodles between bowls and top with stew ingredients and liquid. - - NOTES - - Resting time 5 minutes - Kimchi is from Korean food shops. - Gochujang is a Korean red pepper paste and is available from Korean food shops. - Powdered fermented soybeans are from Korean or Asian food shops. Substitute with tamari, a sweeter alternative to soy sauce, from supermarkets and health food shops.
It's an easy one-pot meal that requires very little prep and is fast to make. Earlier this March, my husband and I moved from Austin to New York. Budae-jjigae (부대찌개) simply translated means army base stew. As a dish it originated soon after the end of the Korean war. At a time when food was scarce in Korea people started to use surplus food from US army bases such as spam, hot dogs and sliced ham.
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