Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew
Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew

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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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook budae-jjigae army base soup/ stew using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew:
  1. Make ready Soup
  2. Prepare 12 ounces spam
  3. Get 5 ounce Vienna sausage
  4. Take 1 package ramen noodles
  5. Make ready 3 slices American cheese
  6. Get 1 cup kimchee
  7. Get 1/2 pound hotdogs
  8. Make ready 12 ounces tofu, extra firm
  9. Take 2 quarts chicken broth
  10. Prepare 1-1/2 cup pork and beans
  11. Get 1/4 pound bacon
  12. Prepare 1/4 cup sliced green onion optional
  13. Get 8 ounces mushrooms optional
  14. Take 1 rice cake optional
  15. Prepare Flavorings
  16. Make ready 2 tablespoons mirin
  17. Prepare 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
  18. Get 1 tablespoons sugar
  19. Get 1 tablespoons soya sauce
  20. Make ready 1 teaspoon gochujang sauce
  21. Make ready To taste salt optional
  22. Get To taste oyster crackers
  23. Prepare 1 tablespoon minced garlic

Budae-Jjigae is a dish made of food from the U. You can pick whatever your favorites from the pot. From kids to adults, everybody loves this dish. Budae Jjigae literally means "army stew", a Korean dish born out of necessity when the only accessible items were surplus food from U.

Steps to make Budae-Jjigae Army Base Soup/ Stew:
  1. Slice the bacon and render the bacon keep the drippings. Slice the hotdogs on a bias.
  2. Break the ramen noodles up. You can use the flavorings ingredients, also add the flavor packet of the noodles, if you like. This soup is based with a lot of processed foods which can tend to be on the salty side.
  3. Cut the Vienna sausages into thirds. Add the juices to a pot, usually it's chicken broth. Add the chicken broth to the same pot. Heat the broths mixture.
  4. Cut the kimchee into manageable pieces.
  5. Add mushrooms and add everything to the pot with the hot broth, except the salt, tofu, and spam. Cube the tofu.
  6. In the bacon drippings fry the cubed tofu. Fry till a little colorful. Set tofu aside.
  7. Cube the spam and fry. When the spam is crisp add to the soup. When you fry the spam it gets a bit salty. Also the broth from the can of Vienna sausages is very salty along with the soya sauce. Add the tofu, and stir in. Simmer 30 minutes. Remove from heat. Add cheese on top.
  8. Taste to see saltiness, if too salty add a little more rice vinegar. If not salty enough add salt to taste. Serve with oyster crackers, I hope you enjoy!!

To make this stew vegetarian-friendly, I've made it loaded it with crunchy vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, beancurd and Quorn's meat-free sausages! Budae jjigae (army base stew) was created in Uijeongbu, an hour north of Seoul, soon after the Korean War when food scarcity led starving Koreans to concoct a meal using food that was discarded or. A South Korean hot pot bubbling with spam, hot dogs, kimchi, instant noodles, and processed cheese! Budae Jjigae (aka Army Base Stew) is the recipe that tastes good any time of the year. Budae Jjigae came from a time in history when Korea was rebuilding and recovering.

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