Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae
Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae

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Army stew or army base stew (Budae Jjigae) is Korean fusion stew that incorporates American style processed food such as spam, sausages, canned baked beans and sliced cheese. Budae (부대) is a general term for a military base in Korean and Jjigae (찌개) is a term for soup/stew. Hence the word army stew or army base stew was born. Korean Army Stew (Budae Jjigae) transforms simple everyday ingredients like spam, noodles, mushroom and veggies into a mouth-watering spicy stew.

Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have simple korean army stew or budae jjigae using 22 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae:
  1. Take chicken stock
  2. Take SPAM cut into cubes
  3. Get mushroom (enoki and or oyster mushrooms)
  4. Prepare shitake mushrooms
  5. Take cocktail sausages cut thinly
  6. Prepare instant ramen noodles
  7. Get a cup of cheese(cubed or 2 slices)
  8. Prepare kimchi (bite-sized)
  9. Take Napa cabbage (cut and sliced)
  10. Prepare Rice cakes (Tteokbokki) or replace with kikiam
  11. Make ready tofu (sliced or cubed)
  12. Get cobs cooked corn or 1 can of sweet corn kernels
  13. Prepare Korean chili paste (Gochujang)
  14. Get sugar
  15. Get Korean chili flakes
  16. Prepare garlic (minced)
  17. Take soy sauce
  18. Get fish sauce
  19. Take Green onions
  20. Take cooking oil
  21. Take I added corn instead of baked beans
  22. Make ready I also removed kelp and anchovies because I don't like them

The older the kimchi is, the better your stew will taste. Other popular bugae jjigae ingredients include: slices of American yellow cheese, canned baked beans. Budae-jjigae (부대찌개) simply translated means army base stew. As a dish it originated soon after the end of the Korean war.

Steps to make Simple Korean Army Stew or Budae Jjigae:
  1. Cook garlic in oil until golden brown. Set aside so it doesn't burn.
  2. Assemble the ingredients (except for the ramen noodles, rice cakes, green onions, napa cabbage, corn and cheese) in a pot. Mix the Korean paste with soy sauce, chili flakes, sugar, and fish sauce and add the mixture to the pot. Pour the stock and bring to boil on medium heat (about 10 mins). Reduce heat and let simmer for another 10 minutes.
  3. Add the remaining ingredients – garlic, instant ramen noodles, rice cakes, green onions, napa cabbage (I like my napa cabbage crunchy), corn and add cheese on top of the pot and boil uncovered until the noodles are cooked (about 2 to 3 mins).
  4. Serve with steamed rice (& with other Korean side dishes). Or if doing hot pot, reduce the heat to low (using a portable burner) and share the food at the dinning table.

Budae-jjigae (부대찌개) simply translated means army base stew. As a dish it originated soon after the end of the Korean war. At a time when food was scarce in Korea people started to use surplus food from US army bases such as spam, hot dogs and sliced ham. The Army Stew Following the Korean war, American army bases became a permanent fixture in South Korea, to assist the South against any possible skirmishes with the North. The Americans brought a number of foods that had never been seen in Korea such as Spam, frankfurter sausages and baked beans to name a few.

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