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This Saturday, I finally can learn and try to cook Korean tofu soy bean paste soup a.k.a Dubu Doenjangjjigae (dunno if i spelled it right, haha).  I followed the recipe from here.

Yey!

This recipe, we need to prepare some details. But, the food is really healthy from the ingredients. I can guarantee that. So, please try. Its really worth for the taste for prepare the details :)

As I read from my Shi Fu Google, this Dubu Doenjangjjigae, is a very common soup/stew soup in Korean. And for a balance diet, this kind of food is totally MINMERRY recommended!!! Huahahaha. Less fat, no oily, and freshness guarantee.

Ok, then! Lets see what we should prepare.

Find your most comfy t-shirt, home-pants, and lets cook! ( :D ) Lets the world busy it self, we busy in our own kitchen. :P

There is three parts of the Ingredients. I try to put the details here with the picture, so its easier for you to follow. :)

Part 1. The Beef

You’ll need :

- 1 cup of minced beef ( You can use 1/2 cup, but my Kung Pi a.k.a Hubby loves beef, so I put more)

- 2 piece of dried mushroom, soak in water and slice it into small cute tiny pieces. (in the picture u can see I soak 4 piece of dried mushroom, the two of them I’ll use it later. )

- 1 Table spoon of soy sauce (light) a.k.a kecap asin

- 1 half tablespoon of garlic (very must have item on my cooking, wakaka)

- 1 teaspoon of sesame oil

- 1 teaspoon of sugar

- Pinch of black pepper

Ok then! Lets prepare the beef,

- Put the minced beef and sliced mushroom  in one big bowl,

- Put pinches of black pepper, 1 tbsp of soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of sugar, and 1/2 tablespoon of garlic

and, mix it!

I use hands, because i love the sensation. If you want to avoid smelly hands, use some plastic hand gloves or just use spoon to mix it well.

and it will become like this. :)

Ok then, lets do the veggies!

Part. 2  The veggies :)

- 1 Green onion, slice into small pieces or 2cm, up to u :)

- 1 Green Pepper, slice into small pieces

- 1 Onion, slice into small pieces.

- 1 medium large potato, cut into small tiny cute little pieces

- 1 cup of Zucchini. Aka Japanese Cucumber. If u can’t find zucchini, use “pasar” cucumber also no prob, I taste it, it taste the same for me. But zuchini is cuter. Seriously.

- 1/2 cup of Chinese tofu

zucchini in small piece.

Part 3. For the broth

- 6 p of giant anchovy  a.k.a giant ikan teri. I remove the intestine and the head, it looks scary to me, haha!

- 3 cups of water.

and the very important one, u’ll also need :

- Chilli powder

- Soy Bean Paste

- Chilli Paste (medium hot)

This is how Soy Bean Paste (similar to “Tau Co” paste) & Chilli paste looks like.

Lets cook! The very most fun part, :DDDDDDDD

Usually the korean people use the black bowl to cook, but I don’t have it. So I use my partner-pot as usual.

Heat the water until it boiled. Put the anchovy. Boiled it for 5- 10 minutes.

After it boiled, remove the anchovies :D

Then while waiting for the water boiled, heat one pan. Put some vegetable oil. And cook the mixed-minced-beef until it gets brownish. :) This part u’ll feel soo happy just because of the smell. It smell really really good. :D Be careful of the oil, it may “percik” on you.

I like to cook use this “sendok”, especially for stirring. Very recommended. Not to big, and fit perfectly with my small pan. Easier to stir and the material not going to scratch the pan. This spoon is a gift when we first came to Singapore from school. Like it!

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Thennnn, after the meat get brownish, put it into the pot for boiled. The smell and the sensation will make you excited, wkaaka.

Boiled it for couple of minutes. Then put the onion, zucchini, and the potato. You will see the contrast, and I really love the color! Wohoooooo!

Boiled on high.

And u’ll see the fat at this stage, remove, remove, remove! We don’t want the fat.

And let it boiled for 4-5 more minutes.

Add 2 spoon of the soy bean paste, 1 spoon of chilli paste and half tea spoon of chilli powder.

If you not get used to hot and spicy soup, just skip the chilli paste, chilli powder and green pepper. But I really suggested you to enjoy this spicy soup. The spicy makes the taste more better. :DDDDD

Stir it a while.

And put the tofu. :)

Stir slowly.

Add the green pepper. And green onion.

Wait for two minutes.

Taste it, if you find not to salty, please put some salt. I did it, i put more salt.

It looks sooo good, isn’t it?

And we are done!!!!!

Serve with rice, and  thats itttt!

This is really nice, i love the veggies and the “kenyal-kenyal” of the meat and mushroom texture. Must try, okay? :D

Actually, its kind of easy right? Hehe. Even kung pi likes it, he hates onion and vege soup, but he likes it. So,please try! Please let me know. Please share with me :DDDDD After one week eating deep fried, oily food, this recipe is a perfect match for rainy Saturday weekend.

So, please let me know, okay????

Many many thanks for reading. Ah, I attached one video below, how my Kung Pi chef enjoy my cooking. Please watch! And please push the “LIKE” button below this page, if you like my post, so I’ll know :)))

Have a nice day, nice meal… ,and see ya!

Cheers.

God bless :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))