How to make kimchi (김치).

Kimchi is the most famous of Korean food. It's my least favorite, but that's a discussion for another day.

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Cut & salted Napa Cabbage.

Cut & salted Napa Cabbage.

Red paste made of sweet rice flour, water & red pepper flakes.

Red paste made of sweet rice flour, water & red pepper flakes.

Pur\u00e9e the ginger & garlic cloves with fish sauce.

Purée the ginger & garlic cloves with fish sauce.

Fish sauce.

Fish sauce.

Pur\u00e9ed garlic, ginger & fish sauce.

Puréed garlic, ginger & fish sauce.

Chop up green onions.

Chop up green onions.

Put the kimchi in a jar with a tight lid...the smell is STRONG!

Put the kimchi in a jar with a tight lid...the smell is STRONG!

Bird's eye view.

Bird's eye view.

  • 3.0bnch Napa Cabbage
  • 10.0 Green Onions
  • 2.0Tbsp Sweet Rice Flour
  • 1/2c Red Pepper Flakes (고추 가루)
  • 2.0Tbsp sugar
  • 5.0oz Matchstick Carrots
  • 2.0tsp Salt
  • 15.0 Garlic Cloves
  • 5.0Tbsp Ginger Root
  • 1.0pch Black Pepper
  • 1.0Tbsp Fish Sauce
  • 2.0c Water