Preface: this post may offend many Koreans. Tho I’d hate to lose all my K-town/La Canada/Hacienda Heights/Cerritos readership but… really, it’s the truth.
This recipe is so ridiculously stupid it’s not funny. As long as you have a bottle of this:
or a plastic tub of the same:
and a pack of instant ramen, that’s right, instant ramen, you can make this dish.
Ingredients List.
as many great internationally known Korean dishes go – think bibimbap and hwe do bap – you can throw in whatever’s left in your pantry unfit to serve guests. This may or may not involve:
Sticky rice cakes (Chinese style is OK, no need to buy Korean brand, trust), sliced or tubular
Spam or other types of canned meat
Wiener/hotdogs
Napa cabbage
Firm Tofu (definitely does NOT have to be a Korean brand)
Jalapenos, onions, green onions
Various mushrooms (I had enoki + shittake on hand)
Kimchi + kimchi juice
And if you wanna go fancy, OG Korean, chrysanthumum greens, aka, Tung How, in Chinese:
Cookware needed:
desktop butane burger
and a large cooking pan.
Methodology:
Cut stuff up, however you like, and lay it all out in a big pile of circular crap inside the pan, which is, obviously, placed on top of tabletop butane burner. In the center of the pan, drop 3 heaping tablespoons of gochujang, top off with the MSG packet from the instant ramen and dust with cayenne chili powder if possible. The “center” condiments will become the soup base of your budae jigae stew.
It should look something like this:
Add approximately 3 cups of water,bring the pan to a really gentle boil, then stir.
Commence eating. Wait, that’s it? Am I serious? Chunju Han Il Kwan charges HOW MUCH FOR THIS POT OF BOILING third class meat? $25?
Ok, so I might’ve forgotten something, the all important instant ramen. Cuz you know, it’s really hard to “cook” ramen in a pot of boiling stew. Let me “instruct” by picture.
Continue eating. Bring out the soju from the fridge. Make sure you ask your girlfriend to pour the shot glasses by holding her right arm with her left hand.
Total cost: $7 tops, assuming you have gochujang lying around. If you don’t… go to Chunju Han Il Kwan, cuz I can’t disclose my K-Town budae preferences to you.
Other equally ridiculous budae jigae recipes on the net:
Zen Kimchi
Tasty Meals at Home
Tamarind & Thyme makes it in the UK
Mini version by i nom things
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Comments ( 10 )
tannaz added these pithy words on Jun 08 09 at 10:54 pmonce i needed miso for a recipe but was too lazy to trek to little tokyo, so ended up at ktown pavilion, and bought korean bean paste instead. obviously not at all the same, plus i was left with a tub of the stuff. had i known about this awesome ‘recipe’ then! alas…
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b-side added these pithy words on Jun 08 09 at 11:17 pmI’m totally gonna try this. I have a tub of the red pepper paste and the soy paste, and need to use them. Especially the soy paste. I bought it and haven’t used it. What’s a white boy to do??
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jin added these pithy words on Jun 09 09 at 12:42 amtsk tsk tsk tony. you forgot the most important ingredient.
a slice of american cheese. it brings it all together.
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Danny added these pithy words on Jun 09 09 at 2:42 amEfff Chunju Han Il Kwan, but I do like your receipe. This dish sounds pretty damn good right now.
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Gastronomer added these pithy words on Jun 09 09 at 10:54 amYou need a TV cooking show. Pronto.
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TonyC added these pithy words on Jun 09 09 at 12:03 pmJin-shi, I can’t do the slice of American cheese… Plus I never have that lying around, so it’d break the $7 budget
sawyer added these pithy words on Jun 09 09 at 11:04 pmlol it is army based stew…u throw whatever u can mang. looks good…never thought about making it at home tho…maybe this weekend will be the day. nice pictures. yep you gotta have those greens. hurray for spam!
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ila added these pithy words on Jun 10 09 at 7:15 amYou have brought it to my attention that my bottle of Jinro needs a friend. I guess we know what’s for dinner! beh go-pah-yo~
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sook added these pithy words on Jun 10 09 at 12:08 pmyou make it look effortless.
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mamichan added these pithy words on Jun 10 09 at 12:55 pmchrysanthemum! I’m growing my own to eat this year.
PS — in reply to your comment on my page about the bento collage — there’s descriptions of each on my flickr.mamichan´s last blog post..easy quick pickles
