How to make spicy kimchi?

Question

How to make spicy kimchi?

Answer 1

how to make kimchi

You will need:

• 2 Chinese cabbages

• 5-10 spring onions

• Sea salt or other non-iodized salt, at least 100 g

• 4 heaped tablespoons (about 20 g) Korean chili powder

• 2-3 cloves garlic, crushed

• 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, any kind

• Tablespoonful kim chi sauce (if available)

• Small piece of ginger (5 g), crushed, or teaspoonful powdered ginger

• Half an onion (optional)

So let’s begin...

Rinse the cabbages, then quarter them lengthwise, discard the stems, and then chop the cabbages laterally, which should leave you with the largest pieces measuring perhaps 5 cm on a side.

Now that we have lots of little bits of cabbage, it’s time to salt them. Place the cabbage in a clean plastic bag or equivalent (with no holes) and sprinkle salt over each layer. The best kind of salt is sea salt, although non-iodized table salt will do. This will create a brine solution with the cabbage juice.

To ensure the cabbage is properly salted, sprinkle salt onto your wet hands, then rub it into the cabbage pieces. Press the leaves in your hand to squeeze as much water out of them as possible. Once finished, tie up the bag and set it aside for 5-6 hours. Check it after three hours to ensure that everything is all right, stirring the mixture if necessary.

Take the cabbage out of the salt solution and rinse it if necessary. It should be a lot softer than it was. Again, remove surplus water. Place cabbage in a sealable plastic box. Add the spring onions, chopped into small pieces. Crush the garlic and ginger in a press and mix in. You may also add half an onion, finely diced, if you wish.

It is also recommended to add kim chi sauce. This is the only ingredient that you can’t always buy at a non-Korean supermarket. (You might prefer not to know what’s in it.) There are several different kinds, many of which contain fish or other seafood such as oysters. You only need one tablespoonful — that’s 15 milliliters. This bottle contains 500 ml. Even for kim chi addicts, that’s a lot of kim chi. Kimchi will work without the sauce, but it helps things along.

Answer 2

Here's a website all about it..

http://kimchi.pyongyang-metro.com/

Of course, you'll want to tweak it to your individual tastes, but, that's the basics..

The hardest part is probably finding an asian or korean market near you..

Answer 3

Buy it in any Asian or Korean market.