Radish Kimchi. Daikon radish, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, green onion, hot pepper flakes, korean radish, salt, sugar. Kkakdugi is a kimchi made with Korean radish, mu (or moo). It's an easy kimchi to make!
The name originates from kkakduk sseolgi (깍둑설기) in Korean.
It describes the motion of cutting food in cubes.
A type of kimchi made with cubed radishes.
You can cook Radish Kimchi using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Radish Kimchi
- Prepare 1 of Korean radish (sub turnip).
- You need 2 of Tbl. Salt.
- Prepare 3-4 of green onion (scallion).
- Prepare of Sauce.
- You need 3 Tbl of Gochujung.
- You need 2 Tbl of medium hot red pepper powder (optional).
- It's 3 cloves of garlic.
- It's 2 of Tbl. Sugar.
- It's 3 of Tbl. Fish Sauce.
Korean radish (mu or muwoo in Korean) or daikon is used to make this kimchi. Ingredients: Korean radish (or daikon), salt, sugar, fish sauce, hot pepper. Kkakdugi (깍두기) or diced radish kimchi is a variety of kimchi in Korean cuisine. Usually, it has all the ingredients of kimchi, but the baechu (hangul: 배추; Napa cabbage).
Radish Kimchi step by step
- This is how big my radish is.
- Peel your radish, I just use a peeler.
- Now this kimchi is usually cut into Julian, or match sticks. But It also can be in half disks, that's how I like it. And I use my food processor, if you do, cut it into pieces that fit into your feed tube.
- The half disks look like this.
- And should be about 1/8 inch thick.
- Now add the salt to the reddish, and mix well. Let sit for about 15 minutes.
- Rinse your radish good, 4 or 5 times to get rid of the salt..
- Clean and chop your scallion, add to radish.
- Mix the sauce ingredients in a bowl.
- Add sauce to radish.
- Mix the sauce in, make sure it's all completely mixed.
- I put it in a container. If you like it to sour first, leave the container on a counter for a day up to 3. Place in Refrigerator. Maybe eaten right off, or after it ferments..
Kkakdugi or cubed radish kimchi is wonderfully crunchy and zingy that goes really well with any Korean food but especially with rich bone soups like Seolleongtang. Kkakdugi is a type of kimchi made with Korean radish ("mu" in Korean). Kkakdugi pairs well with soups like seolengtang (ox tail soup) and noodle. Because…, this Radish Kimchi represented my Korean accent so well. After I finished high school in a small town of southern shore of Korea, I moved to Seoul.