Has anyone tried gol beng yi muchim (골뱅이 무침)? It’s a dish Koreans love eating when we are out at a pub drinking beer or soju. It’s very spicy and sour and quite a heavy dish when you are drinking but you soon get used to it.
Other dishes we like eating when are drinking at the pubs include seafood pancake, dried squid with roasted peanuts and fried spicy chicken. I should do a blog on the drinking culture next time I am in Korea, but suffice to say Koreans love their alcohol!!.
Main ingredients are top shells, chilli sauce and vinegar:
As for vegetables, slice cucumbers diagonally and chop some spring onions. Usually, you also add sliced onions, but I am not a big fan of eating them raw so I skipped it. The additional ingredient I added was dried squid which I soaked in the top shell liquid for about 20minutes to soften it up.
Sauce:
- Mixing the sauce : 2 tbsp of chili sauce, 2 tbsp of chilli powder, 3 tbsp of vinegar(I used concentrated apple vinegar), 1 tbsp of sugar, 1/2 tbsp of minced garlic, some minced ginger, sesame oil and sesame seeds.
- Add the sauce mix to the vegetables, top shells and dried squid
You can add noodles (somyun that I used in my previous blog) to make it a complete meal, but this time I used it as a side dish for dinner. Give it a try and let me know!