This is simply a speedy Korean noodle crockery that’s healthy, packs large flavours and volition curb your spicy Asian nutrient cravings. The broth gets its flavour from gochujang and kimchi – explicit passes to flavour! (PS The crockery looks acold much fiercely spicy than it really is, but this is not 1 for kids.)
Spicy Korean Noodle Soup
This is simply a spot of a golden nugget look due to the fact that it’s really rather hard to marque bully spicy Asian soups. You can’t conscionable adhd a squirt of chilli condiment into a classic Chinese crockery broth. Well, you can, but it lacks the oomph of truly bully spicy Asian soups which person bold savoury flavour that compliments the spiciness. To marque a large one, you typically request a mound of bones simmered for hours to marque a homemade stock, a LOT of chilli lipid oregon a deft operation of hard-to-find Asian sauces.
Hence my excitement implicit this spicy Asian crockery recipe. Especially erstwhile it passed the highest of each taste-testing-bars: my brother. Famous successful our circles for his pugnacious critique of my recipes – work the backstory successful Chilli Lime Fish for entertaining proof!
Spice-meter
This crockery is undeniably spicy from kimchi and gochujang, but not blow-your-head-off spicy. While I state myself to beryllium capable to grip the heat, I really can’t. But…….shhhhh!!! Let’s support that concealed betwixt the 2 of america – can’t person everyone knowing what a chilli-wuss I really am. 😂
Can’t grip spicy nutrient astatine all? Make my Chinese Noodle Soup alternatively which has zero chilli it. You truly can’t dial down the spiciness successful this Korean noodle crockery without affecting the flavour.
Key ingredients – Kimchi and Gochujang
The 2 cardinal ingredients successful this crockery – some of which tin beryllium picked up astatine astir mundane market stores – are kimchi and gochujang. Gochujang is simply a wickedly bully Korean paste to person successful your fridge – if lone to marque this crockery implicit and implicit again!! More accusation below.
Kimchi is a accepted Korean pickle of fermented vegetables packed successful tangy, spicy juice. The cabbage mentation (the astir communal type) is champion successful this soup. The cabbage acts similar a mop for the condiment truthful you get other flavour successful the broth!
Widely disposable successful the fridge conception of ample market stores oregon Asian stores these days. We use some the condiment successful the jar arsenic good arsenic the vegetables for this recipe. The condiment is loaded with flavour, don’t discarded it! Add it into disturbance fries oregon Asian soups for a deed of other brackish and spiciness.
Gochujang is a spicy Korean paste loaded with savory flavour. It makes an quality regularly successful my Korean recipes – including the Slow Cooked Beef Ribs successful Korean BBQ Sauce which is simply a signature crockery successful my cookbook (it’s insanely casual for phenomenal results!).
Readily disposable these days successful ample market stores (Asian aisle, not fridge) and Asian stores.
Other broth ingredients
And present are the different ingredients required for the Korean crockery broth:
Chicken stock/broth – usage debased sodium, other it mightiness beryllium excessively salty erstwhile each the sauces are added.
Fish sauce – Adds brackish into the broth, and much flavour than conscionable plain brackish and adjacent soy sauce.
Soy sauce – More brackish into the broth (just utilizing food condiment is simply a small excessively fishy). Use either airy oregon each intent soy sauce. Not acheronian soy sauce, the flavour is excessively strong! More connected antithetic soy sauces here.
Chinese cooking wine – oregon mirin oregon adust sherry. Just a tiny magnitude adds extent of flavour and complexity to soups and sauces. Without, you’ll announcement that the crockery is missing “something”. Substitute with much food condiment (see look notes).
Ginger and garlic – To infuse the broth with flavour.
Soup add-ins
I’ve utilized choy sum and carrots successful this soup. But it’s 1 to marque your own! Use immoderate cookable vegetables you want.
Kimchi – As per above, we usage the juices successful the jar to flavour the broth arsenic good arsenic the cabbage. Korean spicy goodness to the max!
Noodles – Use immoderate benignant you want. I similar utilizing bladed ovum noodles for this – dried ones. But the look volition enactment good with immoderate noodles astatine all, conscionable hole according to packet directions.
Choy sum – Love utilizing Asian greens for quick-prep recipes. So speedy to chop! Plus, a bully opposition of textures – immoderate caller crunch from the stem and floppiness from the leafy part. Feel escaped to substitute with different Asian greens (bok choy, gai lan/Chinese broccoli etc)
Carrot – For immoderate crunch and beauteous contrasting colour! I’ve chopped it into batons but if you can’t beryllium bothered, conscionable portion it connected an angle. It truly doesn’t matter.
Green onion – Fresh garnish! Optional.
How to marque spicy Korean noodle soup
This look has a large businesslike travel to it. Pour the banal into the saucepan past arsenic it is coming up to the simmer, measurement retired and adhd the remaining ingredients into the broth. Then portion the broth is simmering for 10 minutes to bring the flavours together, chop the veg and navigator the noodles. Then assemble the crockery bowls!
Choy sum cutting – Trim the roots off. Cut into 7cm / 2.5″ pieces past abstracted the stems from the leafy part. Why? Because we adhd the stems archetypal arsenic they instrumentality longer to navigator than the leaves which wilt successful virtually seconds. So we enactment them into the cookware close astatine the end.
Kimchi – Measure retired 2/3 cups kimchi and 2 tablespoons of kimchi juice. Press and compression the cabbage if needed to extract the juice! We request it for flavour, truthful don’t beryllium short!
Simmer broth 10 minutes – Place each the broth ingredients into a saucepan past simmer for 10 minutes to bring the flavours together. I simmer the kimchi cabbage with the broth ingredients to extract the kimchi juices retired of it.
Cook veg – Cook the bok choy stems and carrots for 2 minutes, past the leafy portion of the choy sum for conscionable 1 minute. Then that’s it! The broth is done, acceptable to assemble the noodle bowls.
Cook noodles – Cook the noodles according to the packet directions portion the broth is simmering, past drain.
Assemble – Place the noodles successful a bowl. Then ladle implicit the crockery broth and each the add-ins. Sprinkle with greenish onions if utilizing past serve!
This is specified a gloriously speedy meal to marque erstwhile you’re craving thing healthy, thing quick, thing spicy oregon thing slurpy – oregon immoderate operation determination of. 😂 It’s fabulously versatile with the add-ins: take your ain vegetables, take your ain noodles, adhd proteins if you want.
While I promote you to marque this crockery your own, I will, however, get a small strict with the crockery broth! The operation and quantity of sauces is 1 that my squad and I agreed made the tastiest soup, aft going backmost and distant rather a fewer times, with a fewer heated “debates” thrown in. If you skip immoderate of the sauces, it volition inactive sensation bully but not arsenic large arsenic it is intended to be.
So I truly bash anticipation you effort the broth arsenic written 1 of these days! And remember, you tin get everything astatine ample supermarkets present successful Australia (Coles, Woolies, Harris Farms).
Enjoy! – Nagi x
Watch however to marque it
Spicy Korean Noodle Soup (quick & healthy)
Ingredients
Spicy Korean Soup Broth
- 4 cups / 1 litre chicken stock/broth , low-sodium
- 2/3 cup cabbage kimchi (Note 1)
- 2 tbsp kimchi juice , from kimchi tub (Note 1)
- 3 tbsp gochujang (Note 2)
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce (Note 3)
- 2 tsp fish sauce (sub much soy)
- 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Shaoxing wine, Note 4)
- 2 slices ginger , sliced 0.7cm / 1/3" heavy (skin on)
- 1 large ail clove , smashed (Note 5)
Add-Ins (Note 7):
- 200g/ 7oz thin caller ovum noodles (or 100g/3.5oz dried – Note 6)
- 4 stems choi sum or different Asian greens, chopped into 7cm / 2.5" lengths, stems separated from leafy part
- 1 small carrot , peeled, chopped into bladed matchsticks
- 2 1/2 tsp sesame oil , toasted (Note 8)
- 1/4 cup finely sliced greenish onions (1 stem)
Instructions
- Broth – Place each broth ingredients successful a saucepan. Bring to a simmer implicit medium-high heat, past trim vigor truthful it’s simmering gently. Simmer 10 minutes without a lid.
- Cook vegetables – Add choi sum stems and carrot to the broth. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add choi sum leaves and simmer for different minute. Stir successful sesame lipid conscionable earlier serving.
- Noodles – Meanwhile, navigator ovum noodles successful boiling h2o per packet directions. Drain, springiness the noodles a speedy rinse nether pat water. Shake disconnected excess h2o well.
- Assemble – Divide noodles betwixt bowls. Top with the vegetables. Pick the ail and ginger retired of the broth, past broth determination implicit the noodles. Sprinkle with greenish onions and serve!
Notes
Nutrition
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