Friday, October 2, 2009

Korean Spicy Seafood Soup (해물탕)


This kind of spicy seafood soup is very common in Korea. A variety of seafood can be used, but in this recipe I got from a website uses a squid, octopus, shrmips, and clams. Hope you enjoy this soup!

Ingredients:

1 squid, 1 octopus, 4 large shrimp, 8 clams,
150g radish, 100g bean sprout (in Korean, it is called 콩나물)
100g water dropwort, 2 hot green pepper, 2 hot red pepper, salt
1tbsp flour, 5-6 dried anchovies, 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tbsp rice wine

Making sauce :
** sauce for seafood : 3tbsp hot chili pepper powder,
1tbsp soy sauce, 1tbsp hot chili pepper paste,
1tbsp sesame oil, 2tsp chopped garlic, 1tsp ginger juice

Preparation :
1. squid – peel it and cut it.
2. octopus – mix with flour, press it, rinse with water, cut it.
3. shrimp – wash them with salty water.
4. clam – add them into salty water for 20 mins, rub the clams with a brush.
5. bean sprout – cut the end part of the sprout , wash them with water.
6. water dropwort – use stem only, cut them into 3-4cm long.
7. radish – peel it, slice it thick (1.5cm) and cut each slice into half or four.
8. hot red and green peppers – slice them.

Directions:
1. mix all the ingredients for the sauce for the seafood.
2. add anchovies into 4 cups of water, boil it.
add soy sauce and rice wine to the anchovy water.
3. in another pot, spread radish on the bottom of it, put down bean sprout
over the radish, then, put down squid, octopus, shrimp, clam over bean
sprout.
4. add the soup (from #2), and boil it.
5. when it’s boiled, add **sauce for seafood, boil it little more.
6. then, add water dropwort, hot green pepper, and hot red pepper.
7. if the soup is plain, add little bit of salt.

The picture and this recipe are from

1 comment:

  1. Wow! Thank you so much for posting this recipe! I can already tell it will taste delicious. I'm going to have to wait to cook it until we come back from Japan. By the time, the weather will be perfect for this soup! By the way, what is "water dropwort'??

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