Gangwon

Gamja ongsimi

Name: Gamja ongsimi
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 5 medium potato; 1 tsp salt; 4 cups water; an 8 cm piece kombu; 3 dried shiitake mushrooms; 1 small half moons zucchini (courgette, baby marrow); 1 small sliced onion; 2 cloves minced garlic; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 2 stalks sliced spring onion (green onion, scallion); a pinch black pepper; 1 tsp sesame oil; a few strips nori sheets

Potato dumplings made from grated potato and its own starch. Chewy, silky and naturally free of flour.

50 minTime

8 gProtein each

mildSpice

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

288kcal

8 gprotein

9 gfibre

50minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Potato5 medium

Salt1 tsp

Water4 cups

Kombuan 8 cm piece

Dried shiitake mushrooms3

Zucchini (courgette, baby marrow)1 small, half moons

Onion1 small, sliced

Garlic2 cloves, minced

Soy sauce1 tbsp

Spring onion (green onion, scallion)2 stalks, sliced

Black peppera pinch

Sesame oil1 tsp

Nori sheetsa few strips

Method

6 steps

1Soak the kombu and shiitake in the water 15 minutes, then simmer gently 10 minutes. Remove the kombu and slice the shiitake.
2Peel and finely grate the potatoes. Squeeze the pulp hard in a muslin cloth over a bowl. Let the squeezed liquid sit 10 minutes.
3Pour off the water carefully and keep the white starch. Mix it back into the potato pulp with the salt.
4Bring the broth to a boil and add the zucchini, onion, shiitake, garlic and soy sauce.
5With wet hands, shape walnut sized balls and drop them into the boiling broth. Cook until they float, then 3 minutes more.
6Finish with pepper, sesame oil, spring onion and nori.

Serve it like this

Ladle into deep bowls with the dumplings piled in the centre and nori strips on top. Serve with kimchi on the side.

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Gamja ongsimi

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