Lim Sung-geun's Universal Stock Concentrate

A highly concentrated, versatile stock base perfect for a variety of soups and broths such as galbitang, janchiguksoo, and mandu guk.

🙋 Recommended for

  • Beginners who struggle with adjusting soup seasoning
  • Those who find the process of making stock from scratch tedious and want a quick, reliable base

Ingredients needed 🛒10 servings

  • water 350g
  • instant dashi 35g
  • fine salt 35g
  • nucleic acid 2.5 10g
  • mihyang 15g
  • premium soy sauce 15g
  • pepper 2g

Recipe 🍳

  1. Add water 350g, instant dashi 35g, fine salt 35g, nucleic acid 2.5 10g, mihyang 15g, premium soy sauce 15g, and pepper 2g to a pot according to the specified amounts.
  2. Place on heat and simmer briefly until all ingredients are fully dissolved and well combined.
  3. Once the stock comes to a boil, turn off the heat and strain through a cheesecloth to cleanly remove any residue such as pepper and instant dashi particles.
  1. Combine all stock concentrate ingredients in a pot.
  2. Turn on the heat and bring to a boil, stirring until all ingredients are completely dissolved.
  3. Strain through a cheesecloth to remove solids and retain only the clear concentrate.

Cooking tips 💡

  • The finished concentrate is very salty—never consume it directly. Instead, use it sparingly to season your soup dishes.
  • For 1kg of galbitang stock, adding about 50g of this concentrate is sufficient; no additional seasoning is needed for perfectly balanced flavor.
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