
Fish Cake Maeun Tang
Fiery, clear-hot stew with fish cake and radish — maeun tang for the brave. 47 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.
Ingredients
- Saltto taste
- Garlic2, chopped
- Ginger4 cloves, minced
- Potato3 medium, cubed
- Carrot2, thickly sliced
- Sesame Oil2 tbsp
- Stock or Broth750 ml
- Daikon Radish200 g
- Gochugaru1 tsp
- Fish Cake300 g
- Gochujang1 tbsp
Optional extras
- Perilla Leaveshandful, to finish
Instructions
- 1
Warm the Sesame Oil in a heavy casserole and brown the fish cake well on all sides — real colour means real flavour.
- 2
Lift the fish cake out, soften the garlic and ginger in the same pot, then add the gochugaru.
- 3
Return the fish cake, tip in the potato and carrot, and pour over the stock.
- 4
Cover and let it murmur gently for 35-40 minutes until everything is spoon-tender and the broth has body.
- 5
Season with salt and cracked pepper, then shower with perilla leaves right before serving.
Chef's tip
A final squeeze of rice vinegar just before serving lifts every other flavour.
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