How to Make Yummy Easy Emergency Kimchi

Easy Emergency Kimchi.

You can have Easy Emergency Kimchi using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy Emergency Kimchi

1. Prepare of Whole Napa Cabbage.
2. Prepare of Korean Chives.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of Gochu Garu (korean chili flakes).
4. Prepare 1/4 cup of minced garlic.
5. Prepare 1/4 cup of fish sauce.
6. You need 1/3 cup of coarse sea salt.

Easy Emergency Kimchi instructions

1. Rinse and chop chives to your liking, preferably 5cm each. Set aside.
2. Prep your napa cabbage, cut it in 4. Traditionally Kimchi are not cut in little pieces but i like to make it pre-cut to make the process of fermentation faster.
3. Drizzle cabbage with salt and marinate for 30mins (if the cabbage are cut in small pieces) or whole night (if the cabbage are in whole).
4. Lightly wash cabbage to rinse excess salt away.
5. Mix cabbage with chives well.
6. Mix all the other ingredients (spices) to make a red paste.
7. Put all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Mix well with hand (use gloves to prevent the sting of the chili).
8. Put in a kimchi container (new container to avoid unnecessary odor or fumes).
9. Press kimchi with a spoon until it's firm and very little to none air bubbles trapped inbetween cabbages to make a good fermentation base.
10. Keep in the fridge for minimum of 24h.
11. Kimchi can be consumed fresh and fermented, preferably with hot rice.