Why do Koreans eat seaweed soup for their birthdays? A bowl of longevity noodles is indispensable for a birthday in China, and seaweed soup is also indispensable in South Korea. Eating longevity noodles is to hope for your health and longevity, but eating seaweed soup is not easy to thank your mother. Birthday is Mother's Day. In South Korea, it is generally believed that seaweed soup is good for pregnant women, because kelp is nutritious and cheap, so women will drink seaweed soup after giving birth, so it is also of special significance for Koreans to drink seaweed soup on their birthdays. Don't really think that seaweed soup is just "seaweed soup".

In addition to kelp, beef and fish sauce are added to the soup, and the soup will become more delicious. Some seaweed soups also add clam meat, which will make the taste fresh and sweet and suitable for girls to drink.

One more thing, Koreans can't drink seaweed soup on any occasion, and they are also taboo.

Because kelp will become slippery when cooked. Everyone thinks that it will be ominous to feel slippery, so you can't drink seaweed soup a few days before and on the day of any important exam, and you can't drink seaweed soup drops when you need to see a job or interview.

Talk about the method of seaweed soup.

The method of making seaweed soup is mainly "soup", which is similar to the method of making broth. It is a Korean custom to make soup with fish. You can buy some small hanging fish and cook them in water. When they smell like fish, you can turn off the fire, and then you can leave the soup without fish.

If you have difficulties, you can also go directly to the supermarket to buy beef powder and season it with water. It tastes good.

When the soup is ready, stir-fry the marinated kelp with minced beef marinated in Korean sauce, stew it in the prepared soup and season it with garlic and pepper.

Note that garlic is essential in this process.

As we all know, kelp is very nutritious, containing iodine, iron, calcium, carotene and other ingredients needed by the human body. And seaweed soup is especially delicious. Maruko likes to make seaweed soup at home. Although it is not Korean seaweed soup, China seaweed soup is also delicious.

The following meatballs make seaweed soup with everyone, and friends at home may wish to try it.

Winter melon and kelp sparerib soup

Ingredients: 2 ribs, 50g dried kelp, 400g wax gourd, 5 slices of ginger, a little salt and a proper amount of cooking wine.

1. Wash dried kelp with clear water and soak it until soft. The soaking time is 6 hours, and the kelp silk is about 1CM. Then cut the wax gourd into large pieces.

2. Then blanch the cut ribs in boiling water, and then pick them up.

3. Then put the chopped kelp, ribs, wax gourd and ginger slices into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, cook with strong fire 15 minutes, and then stew with low fire 1 hour.

When cooking for an hour, add a little salt and two spoonfuls of cooking wine to taste.

Boiled seaweed soup is rich in flavor, fresh and delicious, ribs seaweed soup wax gourd, and the soup combines the aroma of wax gourd and ribs, which is particularly sweet to drink. Eating kelp silk is smooth and chewy.