1. Ingredients for Dak-baesuk
-Main ingredient: chicken
-Side ingredients: water, garlic, salt
2. Taste Evaluation
-Hot taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
-Salty taste: ★★☆☆☆
-Sweet taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
-Sour taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
-Savor: ★☆☆☆☆
3. A Brief Introduction To Dak-baesuk 닭백숙
Baesuk is fish or meat boiled in plain water. “Dak-baesuk” is made of chicken boiled in water for a long time.
Dak-baesuk is similar to samgyetang, which is popular with foreigners. But ginseng, chestnut, jujube and glutinous rice are not added.
Compared to samgyetang, it is cheap and easy to cook. Chicken has been eaten since the Silla Dynasty, but records about dak-baesuk have not been handed down.
People have eaten “samgyetang” since 1960s. I think that dak-baesuk originated in samgyetang, after taking out precious medicinal herbs and ginseng.
In order to make dak-baesuk, you should remove guts and head of chicken, and boil it for a long time. While various ingredients like jinseng, chestnut, jujube and glutinous rice are added in samgyetang, only water and garlic are used to make dak-baesuk.
So it is very light. Young chicken, which is bigger than chick and does not spawn eggs, is used. The reason is that its flesh is soft, and highly nutritious. Many people experience the exhaustion of physical strength, and lose their appetite due to hot weather in summer.
Dak-baesuk is a good health food in summer, which replenishes nutrition and stimulates one's appetite. If you don't like deep taste of medicinal herbs of samgyetang, you should eat light dak-baesuk, and recruit yourself in summer.
4. The Kinds of Dak-baesuk
To make dak-baesuk, you should put chicken and garlic in water and boil it for a long time. And then, apply salt for seasoning. Many people enjoy dak-baesuk as much as samgyetang as health food in summer, so medicinal herbs like milk vetch root are added sometimes. Moreover, duck is often used instead of chicken.
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5. The Way To Enjoy Delicious Dak-baesuk
If you order dak-baesuk, whole chicken is served in a big pot. Since it is very hot, you should tear the chicken into fragments with chopstick, and eat lean meat at first. And then pour the soup into a bowl and season with salt and black pepper. And put some chopped scallion. It would taste better.
The soup of dak-baesuk has very deep taste as it is boiled for a long time with chicken. After eating dak-baesuk, you should put some rice in the soup and make chicken porridge. It is out of this world!
