Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan kimchi. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegan Kimchi - Tangy and delicious, this addicting kimchi recipe is made with cabbage, apple, green onion, gochugaru, garlic and ginger, and is a flavorful side or condiment that is easy to make! This vegan kimchi recipe is inspired by temple kimchi, but it's definitely NOT temple kimchi. There are five forbidden vegetables in temple cooking, and garlic and scallions are two of them. Asian chives, carrot, garlic, ginger, green onion, hot pepper flakes, korean radish, napa cabbage, onion, salt, sugar, sweet rice flour, vegetable stock.
Vegan kimchi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Vegan kimchi is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have vegan kimchi using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan kimchi:
- Take 1 Nappa cabbage (about 2-2.5kg)
- Get 150 g salt
- Prepare 2 Tbsp red miso
- Get 1 Tsp sesame oil
- Take 200 g carrot shredded
- Take 100 g grated peeled apple
- Get 1 bunch chives
- Prepare 30 g ginger (finely grated)
- Get 30 g garlic (finely grated)
- Get 50 g agave syrup
- Prepare 5 g kombu (dried seaweed)
- Take 100 g Korean chili powder
- Take 20 g mochi-ko or glutinous rice flour
- Prepare 200 g water
- Make ready Latex or plastic gloves
This vegan kimchi is a great place to start. This kimchi will get more and more sour as it ages. These Vegan Kimchi pancakes are spicy, salty, chewy and perfectly crispy. Vegan Kimchi Jjigae is a simple Korean-style stew made from kimchi, mushrooms, tofu, and assorted veggies.
Steps to make Vegan kimchi:
- Soak dried kombu seaweed in a small amount of water for about 3 min until soft enough to shread by scissors. Shread them very thinly and cut them into about half length of matchsticks. Wipe off any water and set aside. (The image is the dried kombu before soaking in water)
- Cut nappa cabbage into 4 pieces. Using your hand with 150g of salt, grab salt and rub it thoroughly on each layer of Nappa cabbage.
- Line up the salted nappa cabbage in a large container(Could use a large pot or a pan that has depth) and put a plate or catting board and place heavy weight to extract moisture from cabbage. Leave it for about 1 hour or so.
- Grate the garlic, ginger and peeled apple. Shread the carrot finely, and cut the chives into the same size of carrot. In a large bowl, combine them together with shredded kombu, 2tbs of miso, sesame oil and Korean chilli powder.
- Using small cooking pot cook the mixture of 20g of mochi-ko (glutinous rice flour) and 200ml of water with medium low heat until it forms glue like texture and thickness. Make sure to constantly mix when cooking. (This will be a binder for all ingredients in the bowl for making kimchi seasoning paste)
- Pour the sticky mochi-ko mixture into the bowl with all the ingredients and mix well. Now your kimchi seasoning paste is ready. Set aside.
- Squeeze out water and rinse cabbage in water throughly. Squeeze out water well and tight after rinsing.
- Wear plastic gloves. Spread the kimch seasoning paste on every layer of the drained nappa cabbage leaves. Try not to break apart the leaves.
- When all the layers are coverd by paste, gently put it in a container. Place plastic wrap to cover the kimchi and seal and leave it in room temperature for a day.
- Keep it in refrigerator and rest it for another 2-3days, then ready to cut and eat. It will last for about one month when kept in fridge.
- Note: Korean chili powder can be found at Korean grocery store. Kombu seaweed, mochi-ko(or glutinous rice flour) and red miso can be found at Japanese/Korean/Chinese grocery store.
- If you are not vegan, could add 2 tbsp of Thai fish sauce into the kimchi seasoning paste for deeper flavor.
These Vegan Kimchi pancakes are spicy, salty, chewy and perfectly crispy. Vegan Kimchi Jjigae is a simple Korean-style stew made from kimchi, mushrooms, tofu, and assorted veggies. It has a comforting balance between sweet, sour, spicy, and savory and is one of my favorite. Kimchi is a Korean condiment that is similar to sauerkraut. It is usually made Kimchi is also very spicy, typically fermented with ingredients like red peppers, onions, scallions.
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