Taiwanese
Kimchi
Most of people know
“Kimchi” which is from Korea but in Taiwan we have our own Kimchi. The
Taiwanese Kimchi tastes so much different than Korean Kimchi. Taiwanese Kimchi
taste sweet and sour, maybe a little spicy. It can be a side dish or pairing
with other food. For example, the most famous food in Taiwan, it is called
“Stinky (smelly) Tofu”. In Taiwan they serve the Stinky tofu with Taiwanese
Kimchi.
We use the pickling method to do this dish.
Recipe:
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Quantity:
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Ingredient:
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Equipment:
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1 ea.
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Chinese
Cabbage
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Chef’s
knife
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1 ea.
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Carrot
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Peeler
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2
pieces
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Garlic
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Containers
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1 ea.
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Green
onion
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Spoon
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5 tsb
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Sugar
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Tea
spoon
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For pickling
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Salt
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150ml
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Vinegar
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1 tsb
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Fish
sauce
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1 tsb
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Chili
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1 tsb
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Dried pepper
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Step:
1.
Prepare all the ingredients that we are going to use.
2.
Cook some water. When the water boiled let it cold down.
3.
Peel off the Chinese cabbage and then use hand to peel it into small
pieces.
4.
Cut the carrot into julienne.
5.
Put Chinese cabbage and carrot in a big bowl then add salt to pickling
little bit. And wait for at lease 30 minutes.
6.
Cut the green onion into pieces and cut garlic into small pieces.
7.
Add green onion, carrot and other ingredients in the bottle that we will
use to pickling our Taiwanese Kim chi.
8.
Wash out the salt and remove the water from Chinese cabbage and carrot
then dried them.
9.
Once the Chinese cabbage and carrot dry, put them into the bottle and
add water above to cover the vegetables.
10.
Then put the bottle into refrigerator for at lease one week.
Note: the water must be
cooked!
How to
improve the recipe?
I like
to add about the double amount of the sugar and
vinegar. For the recipe, I think it will not be enough tasty for many people.
And there is a tip that we can easily to
finish this dish. When the cabbage and carrot has been washed and dry, put them
into a plastic bag and add other ingredients into the bag as well. Then tie the
bag and start to shake
it for about 3 minutes then the dish will be pretty much done. If you want to
Kimchi has stronger taste or flavor then still need to wait for few days.
Hope this well help you to know the different kind of the Kimchi.
And enjoy~
