Ingredients: cabbage, garlic, salt, fish sauce, chili powder, sugar.
Note: fish sauce is the most essential thing, in Korea almost every family make their own fish sauce, the Chinese do not eat this thing, but in the big supermarkets inside the sale, about 8-10 yuan / bottle, mostly Thai fish sauce.
Preparation materials:
1, cabbage
Cabbage green leaves, thin skin, dense leaves, not too much need to remove the outer layer of leaves, looks both clean and fresh for the best.
2, radish
Radish is mainly composed of water, rich in vitamin C and digestive enzymes - amylase, if eaten raw, it helps digestion. Compared with the radish heart, vitamin C is mainly distributed in the radish skin, so it is best not to peel, wash and eat.
3, chili peppers
Chili peppers in addition to carotene and vitamin C, but also contains a variety of ingredients. Capsaicin has a bactericidal and antibacterial effect, can promote the secretion of saliva or gastric juice, promote digestion. In addition, it has the ability to increase various metabolic effects in the body. Pickles used in the pickle chili powder should be selected in the sun dried bright red color, thick flesh, skin smooth sharp pepper.
4, garlic
Making kimchi use more pungent flavor of many cloves of garlic. The main stimulating ingredient in garlic --- propyl sulfite has 15 times the bactericidal power of carbonic acid, and has a variety of effects such as promoting metabolism, analgesia, constipation, and detoxification.
5, green onions
Ordinary vegetables are alkaline, but green onions are rich in sulfur, belong to the acidic food. Onion is difficult to store vegetables, water content of about 80%. The green part of the green onion is also rich in vitamins A and C. Because the stimulating component of the green onion contains sulfur and C compounds, which have a bactericidal and insecticidal effect. Pick large scallions with thick, fresh roots and stems, and fine scallions with short, fresh leaves.
6, ginger
Ginger and vinegar, soy sauce, salt, honey, etc., without damaging the inherent flavor of food. Moisture accounts for about 80%, rich in inorganic substances. Has a characteristic flavor and pungent taste, of which the pungent taste from the substance called gingerin, with stomach sweating special effects, but also helps to lose weight.
7, spiny sea pine
Parasitic in the shallow seaside green algae, the whole was dark green, smooth to the touch, calcium and phosphorus content than moderate. Used when pickling and storing cabbage.
8, salt
Salt not only regulates the saltiness of food, in terms of nutrition or physiology are other substances can not be replaced. Salt absorbed by the body is converted into sodium and chlorine into the blood, digestive fluids, tissue fluids to play an osmotic effect, and participate in acidity regulation and neuromuscular excitability regulation.
9, fish and shrimp sauce
is a kind of storage fermented food, storage during the protein decomposition into amino acids, generating the inherent flavor and aroma. Fresh fish spines decompose into easily absorbed calcium, fat is converted into volatile fatty acids, generating the sauce's unique flavor and aroma. Fish and shrimp sauce serves as a high-quality source of protein and a supply of calcium and fatty substances, and is an alkaline food with a high calcium content, which plays an important role in neutralizing body fluids.
The second step: find a large pot that can be turned, grind the garlic (a little more, five pounds of cabbage about 3 two garlic), chili powder (according to their own tastes), and then put the sugar, fish sauce (as much as soy sauce), according to their own tastes you can also put some salt. Put all these seasonings together and stir them together, like a dumpling filling and you're done.
Step 3: Fermentation should be sealed, and the fermentation time depends on the temperature, usually 4-5 days in spring, 3 days in summer, and a week in winter.
Step 4: Taste the delicious delicacies, pay attention to is not put too long, suggest that single friends do well after the friends must be shared with friends, otherwise a person can not finish eating put bad will be a pity