Simple Napa Cabbage Kimchi Recipe from Scratch
Making kimchi from scratch is a labor of love, but it’s well worth the effort. I love getting in there with my hands and working the cabbage. It feels like I’m building a real connection with my food. Koreans eat kimchi with almost every meal, and the average Korean eats 79 pounds of it per year! Traditional kimchi, or tongbaechu-kimchi, is made with an uncut head of Chinese cabbage where the seasoning paste has to be spread individually on each leaf. In this simple kimchi recipe, we’ll...
- Time: 32 min
- Servings: 20
Source: Bloom Cooking
Ingredients
- of Napa cabbage
- green onions, finely sliced
- leek, finely chopped
- onion, minced
- minced garlic
- minced ginger
- carrots, julienned or grated
- sea salt or Kosher salt, divided
- fish sauce
- Korean chili flakes gochugaru
- sugar
- Optional: 1 ½ tsp. salted shrimp sauce
- Chlorine-free water as needed