Baek Jong Won's Dwenjang Jiggae~ 집밥 백선생 : 된장찌개

It's 집밥 백선생 Fever in Korea! This time I want to share the Baek Son-Seng style Dwenjang Jiggae! I have been cooking Dwenjang Jiggae with different ingredients before. I would say this is the most easy and fast ready Dwenjang Jiggae and it is very delicious too! Hubby requests me to make this Dwenjang Jiggae again and again after he had it for the first time with 2 bowl of rice gone. My Earth-ware is medium size (for 2 serving), but I only manage to take few sips of the soup and 1-2 spoon of the ingredients inside, there rest was finish by him. haha!

Ingredient (2 Servings):

Thinly slice Beef  (or Pork) - 1/2 Cup

Radish slices - 1/2 cup

Dwenjang - 4 Teaspoons

Gochujang - 1 Teaspoon

Sugar - 1 Teaspoon

Minced Garlic - 1 Teaspoon

Hot pepper (chill) - 1 pc

Green onion - 1 stalk

How to Cook:

Step 1.

Thinly slice  pork meat & radish, julienne the chili peppers, chopped the green onions and minced the garlic, set aside. 

I am using pork neck meat here. Baek SonSeng is using beef in the show, however pork is also suitable. Use meat that have some fat on it or you can mix lean meat with a little pork belly. Don't use just pork belly meat as it will make the soup turns out oily.

Step 2.

To make dwenjang jiggae, you need Dwenjang (Fremented bean paste), Gochujang (Red pepper paste) and sugar. These two are essential ingredients that often use in making most of the Korean dish and stews.

Step 3.

Heat up the earth-ware, saute the thinly slice pork without oil until the meat is cooked. The meat will release a little bit of oil from it's fat and it won't stick on the earth-ware. 

Step 4.

Add in the thinly slice radish and continue to saute until the all the radish is cook or soften.

Step 5.

Add in rice water and bring it to boil. (Tips: Use the second time or third time rinsing water from washing rice for cooking soup). If you do no have rice water, you can use normal water.

After the rice water start boiling, add in 4 teaspoons of dwenjang, mix it well.

Step 6. 

Continue to add in 1 teaspoon of gochujang, follow by 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of minced garlic. You can see the color of the water turns oranges like below.

The ratio is 4:1:1:1 (Dwenjang:4, Gochuchang:1, Sugar:1, Minced Garlic:1)

Step 7.

Continue to boil for 10 minutes, topped with chopped green onion and chili pepper slices and let it boil for another 1 minute and it is done!

The secret of this delicious dwenjang jiggae is the combination of meat, radish, sugar and minced garlic. Either one of the ingredient is lacking the taste of the dwenjang jiggae will be different (like something is missing.) Someone has remake the Baek Sonseng's dwenjang jiggae right after the episode in this short video clip - share with all of you and hope you guys will enjoy this dwenjang jiggae like us too!