Easy Quick Kimchi

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Kimchi is considered a national food of Korea. This is a side dish often served in every Korean restaurant. The common ingredient for Kimchi is fermented Napa cabbage, but other ingredients such as daikon, carrots, and onions can be added. The world of making Korean Kimchi has a long history. Kimchi is a good side dish to accompany other dishes like fish or meat to make a complete satisfying meal. The fermenting process used to make Kimchi gives this nutritious side dish a stamp of approval by a health fanatical world. However, this is not my place to go on and on about the benefit of consuming Kimchi. I will now introduce a quick and easy way to make Kimchi at home with only a few ingredients.

Ingredients:

1/2 head of Napa cabage

2 tbs salt (Korean salt for making Kimchi)

Sauce ingredients:

3 tbs fish sauce

3 tbs sugar

3 tbs vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar)

Other ingredients:

1 carrot, julienned

1/2 small white onion, sliced

1 small bunch of chives, cut in 2 inch lengths

Spices:

4 garlic cloves

1 inch piece of ginger, peeled

2 hot chili peppers

2 tbs Korean red chili flakes

Directions:

Cut Napa cabbage into bite-size pieces. Place Napa cabbage in a bowl and sprinkle with 2 tbs salt. Leave it for 2 hours.

Combine all the spices in a mini food processor and blend into a paste.

To make sauce:

Combine all the sauce ingredients with the spice paste and mix well and then set aside.

After two hours, wash Napa cabbage and squeeze out all the excess water. 

Place the Napa cabbage, sliced onions, carrots and chives in a mixing bowl. Pour the spice mixture on top and toss to combine.

Taste to your family’s liking with more sugar, fish sauce, and vinegar.

Put the Kimchi in a clean glass jar with lid. It will be ready in a few hours. It can be refrigerated for weeks. The flavor will actually improve in just a day.

This is a quick and easy Kimchi, which does not contain salted shrimp and rice sauce as among the traditional Kimchi ingredients.