Today I want to share with you a
delicious vegan recipe for
The ingredients:
1 small napa cabbage, about 1 ½
pounds
1 small carrot, peeled and
julienned
2 oz. radish, peel and
julienned
1 small bunch of Chinese
chives, washed and cut into 2 inch pieces
1 small white onion, roughly
chopped
6 garlic cloves
1 tbsp ginger (small piece of
fresh ginger)
Total 1/3 cup salt
Sweet rice pastes for Kimchi
1 tbsp sweet rice flour
1/2 cup water
Sauce ingredients:
1 tbsp red pepper powder
All the sweet rice flour
All the chopped white onion,
garlic, and ginger
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
Directions:
Cut the
Put the cabbage in a medium
bowl and sprinkle the salt evenly over the cabbage. Pour enough water to cover
the cabbage. Let it soak for 3 hours; you have to turn the cabbage every 30
minutes. Drain and wash the cabbage under running water and let it dry.
Add the chives, radish, and
carrots with the
You will also need some other
ingredients, such as salt, sugar, garlic, ginger, green onions, red pepper
flakes, and rice flour. The rice flour helps to thicken the kimchi paste and
make it stick to the cabbage.
To make the sweet rice paste:
Mix the sweet rice and water
and bring to boil. Stir and cook for 1 minute until the mixture reaches the
thickness of a pancake batter. Let it cool off.
In a food processor, blend the
white onion, ginger and garlic well. Add this mixture with the rice mixture.
You can adjust the amount of sugar and red pepper flakes according to your
taste preference. Some people like their kimchi sweeter or spicier than others.
Pour the Kimchi sauce into the
mixture of cabbage and toss them well. Make sure all the sauce coats the
vegetables.
Put them in the container with
a lid and close the lid. Let it sit at room temperature for one or two days
before placing the container in the refrigerator.
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