How do you make kimchi?

Question

I love the kimchi in Korean restaurants. How can I make some just like it at home?

Answer 1

Ingredients

1 Napa cabbage
3 Carrots
2 Cucumbers
3 Heads broccoli
2 Bunches scallions
1 Apple
2 Small oranges
1 Lemon


Rinse all vegetables in water and salt.
Cut out stem of cabbage with a V-notch, then cut in half lengthwise. Cut each half lengthwise once again, and slice crosswise into strips.
Cut up the cabbage stem into thin strips.
Sprinkle with Kosher salt. Scoop and stir with hands.
Let cabbage sit while peeling carrots and cucumber. Peel carrots completely. Take strips from the cucumbers.
Section the carrots and cut into thin strips.
Section the cucumbers and cut into thin strips.
Cut broccoli heads into byte-size pieces, cut stalks diagonally to make thin oval slices.
Add salt. Scoop and stir.
Trim scallions, slice the white part down the center, then cut into strips diagonally.
Core and dice the apple and add.
Skin the oranges and lemon.
Slice the oranges, separate into pieces, and add.
Put chilli pepper, sesame seeds, and crushed garlic in a sauce bowl.
Add sesame oil and rice vinegar.
Dice the lemon and squeeze into the bowl, add the remaining pieces.
Mix the ingredients in the sauce bowl to make paste, then gently spread the paste into the vegetable bowl.

Answer 2

Kimchi!.....o yea.... salivating now...

Though I never made Kimchi before, but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of recipies on the web.


For those who don't know what Kimchi is, here's the following...

Kimchi is a Korean cuisine, and people serve kimchi at almost every meal.

The word kimchi has 2 possible origins. Some people believe that it evolved from the native Korean words "ji" or "jimchae" (meaning vegetables soaked in salted water), then later changed its pronunciation to "timchae" or "dimchae", then to "jimchi", and finally "kimchi".
Another possible origin is as a Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character "Ham-tse" or "Kam-tse" (meaning processed with salted water or pickle vegetables).

It is believed that they made kimchi to preserve the vitamins and minerals in vegetables for the long, cold winters in in those times.

Types of kimchi differ from region to region, depending on harvest and weather conditions. Each family also has its own recipe handed down from generation to generation.

It is made by fermenting through lactic acid production at low temperatures to ensure proper ripening and preservation. It is processed with a seasoning mixture mainly consisting of red pepper powder, garlic, ginger, green onion and radish

Answer 3

A korean Food thats made out of spiced pickled cabbage i LOVE it are you eating kimchi soup or just plain Vegetables?

Answer 4

Kimchi is a spicy vegetable that is a Korean Supplement. You can probably buy it in a market and just fine a Korean recipe.

Answer 5

Real kimchi is fermented in clay pots buried in the ground. Recipes can be found on various web sites. Other foods were pickled and fermented this way also. It is an old form of preserving foods when they had no means to keep food fresh.

Answer 6

my sister-in-law is Korean...she makes a spicey vegetable dish she calls Kimchi...I know it has shreadded cooked cabbage in it mixed with hot sauce...she stir frys this in a wok I think...she steams whatever vegetables she has on hand (Snow beans, green beans, onions) and then adds them to the stir fry...she sometimes adds left over diced pork chops to the stir fry if she has it around...she eats this spicey hot cabbage dish alone, over Ramen noodles or over steamed white rice...I think anyway is okay with Kimchi...but it's gotta have cabbage and its gotta be HOT and SPICEY...Chef2chef.com has kimchi recipes I think, if you type in the keyword "Korean"

Answer 7

poop in a bucket and bury it in your yard for 3 months. Dig it back up and dish it out with garnishments, and enjoy, This will smell the same never have tasted it

in all seriousness they bury that stuff and dig it up months later. Stinks like HELL. peopl say it's good, but i'll pass

Answer 8

what's the kimchi??

Answer 9

what's that??