Ttukdak Hyung's Spicy Water Dropwort Kalguksu

Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings

• Meat steamer bottom liquid (beef umami broth vibe)
• Small amount of gochujang
• Small amount of doenjang
• Appropriate amount of tuna fish sauce
• Small amount of mirin
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• Small amount of anchovy dashida
• Small amount of beef dashida
• Small amount of Cheongyang chili pepper
• Plenty of kalguksu noodles
• Plenty of water dropwort

Recipe 🍳

Cooking tips 💡

• The liquid left in the steamer after making beef steam dish is a natural beef broth concentrated with meat essence and moisture. Never discard it; use it as the base for jang-kalguksu to achieve a deep, heavy flavor incomparable to plain water.
• If you add the white starch powder clinging to the kalguksu noodles directly, the broth will become gluey and overly thick. It's a pro tip to shake them off in a sieve or quickly rinse them in water before adding to keep the soup clean.
• Water dropwort is delicate; if boiled long in hot soup, it quickly turns mushy and loses its distinctive fresh fragrance. Always add it just before turning off the heat and let it barely cook with residual heat to keep its crunch.

Recommended for 🙋

• ⭐Those who urgently need a spicy carbohydrate finish to perfectly cleanse the oily palate after a savory meat roast or steam dish meal.
• ⭐Those who want to enjoy the fragrant burst of water dropwort and smooth, chewy noodles in a hot meat broth.
• ⭐Those who want to recreate the style of a famous restaurant's shabu-kalguksu—a clean, rich, spicy jang-kalguksu—at home.