Taiwanese Kimchi

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:

Quantity:	Ingredient:	Equipment:
1 ea.	Chinese Cabbage	Chef’s knife
1 ea.	Carrot	Peeler
2 pieces	Garlic	Containers
1 ea.	Green onion	Spoon
5 tsb	Sugar	Tea spoon
For pickling	Salt
150ml	Vinegar
1 tsb	Fish sauce
1 tsb	Chili
1 tsb	Dried pepper

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~