Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew)
Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sundubu jjigae (spicy tofu stew). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Dried anchovies, dried kelp, eggs, garlic, green onion, hot pepper flakes, kimchi, korean radish, onion, pork, pork belly, salt, sesame oil, soft tofu, sugar, vegetable oil. Sundubu-jjigae (순두부찌개, -豆腐–) or soft tofu stew is a jjigae (찌개, Korean stew) in Korean cuisine. The dish is made with freshly curdled soft tofu (which has not been strained and pressed).

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sundubu jjigae (spicy tofu stew) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew):
  1. Make ready 1 pack soft tofu
  2. Prepare 100 g meats / 100 g seafood (clams, prawns, mussels, crab, squid, etc), you can choose what your favorite item
  3. Get Green onions
  4. Prepare 1 Onion, minced
  5. Prepare 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
  6. Take 1 Chili, minced
  7. Take 1 tsp soy sauce/fish sauce
  8. Get 4 tsp chili powder
  9. Take 2 tsp sesame oil
  10. Get 2 slices kombu/ dashi for stock
  11. Get 250 ml water
  12. Make ready 1 egg

The egg adds richness to the stew, but you don't need to add an egg. In Korean, sundubu is soft tofu and jjigae is stew, thus soft tofu stew! I kind of think of it more as soup then stew but I guess that's a question of what one considers a soup versus a stew. Kimchi Sundubu Jjigae: Spicy Kimchi Tofu Stew.

Steps to make Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew):
  1. Make the kombu stock, just boil water with kombu/dashi for 5 minutes.
  2. Heat the hot pot and put sesame oil, minced garlics, minced onions, and chili powder, stir for 5 minutes until mix well.
  3. Put the stock and soy sauce, mix well.
  4. When the stock boils, put the remaining ingredients like green onions, meats/seafood, and tofu, cooking for 5 minutes and the lastly put egg on the top.

A warm and spicy comforting Korean tofu stew. Sundubu Jjigae or Soft Tofu Stew recipe that is so easy to make and so delicious that my husband told me it's almost as good, if not better than the ones at the restaurant! I would have never imagined that Sundubu Jjigae would become so popular with non-Koreans. I always thought that it was. When I was in Seoul a little while ago, I basically ate this amazing spicy tofu stew every single day.

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