How to make Kim-chi

Here are ingredients for making really simple Kimchi;

- 2cabbages
- 3cup of salt
- 2heads of garlic
- Half head of ginger
- Half bunch of shallots
- 1 onion
- Shrimp paste (100g)
- 3 table spoons of fish source
- 2/3 cup of glutinous rice flour
- 1 and 1/2 cups of chilli powder

1. Make salty water and pour it into the chopped cabbages.

2. Leave it for 5hours at least to make the cabbages dehydrated. (This process is very important for the Kimchi taste. After the salting, the cabbage should be crunchy.)

3. Crush the peeled garlic, onion and ginger together. (It is very smelly.^^)

4. Boil the hot water (3cups) to make rice flour water. This water would reduce the unique cabbage smell. Dilute the rice flour in the cold water first and pour it into the boiling water.

5. Wash the salty cabbages in the cold water if it’s too salty. Make sure that the cabbage shouldn’t be so wet.

6. Let’s put the all the ingredients in a big bowl and mix all together.

Now you can have delicious and fresh Kimchi. James loves the Kimchi with Sesame oil. The taste is quite nice. But remember Kimchi is a kind of preserved food. If you want to add extra sesame oil, don’t put it into a whole Kimchi. It’s going to be yucky after few days. ^^

ref- http://ohsoosun.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-make-kimchi.html