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== Ingredients ==
== Ingredients ==
* Glutinous ricej Water
* Water
* Cooked white rice (leftover rice is fine)
* Cooked white rice (leftover rice is fine)
* Cabbage
* Cabbage
* Radish, mostly cut sliced long and thin (3 inches and 3 mm thick), and leave some in contact for making them into blocks later during storage
* Garlic
* Korean chili powder
* Minced apple and Asian pear (alternatively, ripe peeled persimmons without seeds) -- used instead of sugar
* Salted shrimp (젓갈)
* Salted fish sauce (진젓)
* Green chives (쪽파), cut to about an inch
* Hairtail (aka cutlassfish)
* Slices of front hock (pork)


 
== Direction ==
- Grind cooked white rice with water (instead of sticky rice liquid
# Prepare cabbages
## Wash thoroughly
# Make kimchi sauce
## Pour minced garlic into a container
## Grind cooked white rice with water (instead of sticky rice liquid, called 찹쌀풀 in Korean) and pour it into the container
## Pour chili powder
## Put salted fish sauce
## Put (fermented0 salted shrimp
## Put minced apple/pear or permissions
## Mix well with hands
## Mix in sliced radish and chives
## Prepare fish and
##* Cut off the tail and the fin
##* Cut off head diagonally from the back of the head and diagonally down
## Cut to about height, width ratio of 1:2 blocks
#* Scrape out organs
# Scrape in kimchi sauce between cabbage leaves
#* Don't stuff it with sauce, but lightly scrape it in equally
# Store
## Fold from the loose end with two flaps hanging to the side
## Use the remaining flaps to wrap around the fold
## Take a few green leaves and wrap about two blocks of fish and put in between prepared cabbages
##* Note: adding more fish will dilute the saltiness, due to its water content
##* Fish will need to be fermented more than 3 months before eating
## Add cuts of radish to the side as a means to adjust saltiness (water from radish will further dilute)
## Spread out slices of front hock in between layers of cabbages in the container
##* Kimchi gains a "cool" taste ("전지가 들어가면 시원해 짐") as it ferments according to an expert
## Fill out the gaps on the top with loose (seasoned) leaves