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Make your own Kimchi easily | Kids Eat by Shanai #kimchi #ferment #guthealth

Make Your Own Kimchi


  • Total Time: 120 hours 25 minutes

Description

Make your own Kimchi easily at home with simple ingredients and add it to all your favourite dishes.  Ready in around a week.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 Chinese cabbage
  • 2 tablespoons salt
  • 1 red capsicum
  • 2 carrots

MARINADE

  • 2 spring onions
  • ½ red capsicum
  • 2cm piece ginger
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 2 red chillies
  • 1 tablespoon Gochugaru chilli powder
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon fish sauce

Instructions

Roughly chop the cabbage and massage in the salt and leave for 15 minutes.  

Place all the marinade ingredients into a food processor and blitz to a paste.

Once the cabbage has sweated, add the marinade and remaining vegetables and mix to thoroughly coat.

Compact into a sterile jar, pushing down firmly to release liquid to cover.  Cover with lid, if jar is full store on a tray in the laundry as it may leak.  For 5 days burb the jar, by removing the lid and releasing gas.

Refrigerate once ferment is to your liking.

Notes

Store in a sealed jar in the fridge for up to 12 months.

  • Prep Time: 25 minutes
  • Cook Time: 5 days