Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Homecook Korean Army Stew (Budae-jjigae 부대찌개)

On the night of polling day, other than making mooncakes, we also have a go at Korean Army Stew

The ingredients were pretty simple and it's easy to prep and we just have to utilize the underuse pot given by MIL. Till date we only used it twice, once for steamboat during CNY and this time round for the Korean Army Stew

We find it no point to use it especially when there's just the two of us. No diff from using normal pot and just cook right? haha. 

I prepared the stock for the soup few hours prior to dinner time. Basically I stuff lots of anchovies into the soup bag and dump it into the pot (after the water is boiled) and let it cook. In order to let the soup have more 'taste', I think the total time taken to prepare the stock were more than an hour haha! 

When everyone arrives, we then start to place all the ingredients in for cooking. 


That's how it looks like after we put in all the ingredients. 

Our ingredients:

1) Crab Meat
2) Spam
3) Tau Kwa 
4) Kimchi
5) Hotdogs
6) Enoki mushroom
7) Baked Beans (which we only add in after it's boiling)  

Actually you can just add in anything you love to eat during a normal steamboat session. We should have bought marinated bulgogi meat to add in but totally forgot about it. If not it will be yummier!  


We also added in 2 tablespoons of gochujang sauce. I believe gochujang sauce is the most important ingredient because it contribute to the taste of the soup the most. 


Time to add the instant noodle after our ingredients are almost cook! 


Not forgetting a slice of cheese each to add more taste to the soup :) 

The soup wasn't that 'thick' in the first place so we did add a few table spoons of chicken stock into the soup. But after the cheese melts, everything taste good hehe.

Korean Army Stew is very easy to prepare and to have it at home and all you need is just the hotpot machine at home! Totally don't mind preparing it again next time because it's quite costly to eat it outside. Nothing beats homecook food yea? :)

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