1. Ingredients for Sea Mustard Soup
-Main ingredient: sea mustard
-Side ingredients: sesame oil, water, soy sauce, salt
2. Taste Evaluation
-Hot taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
-Salty taste: ★☆☆☆☆
-Sweet taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
-Sour taste: ☆☆☆☆☆
3. A Brief Introduction To Sea Mustard Soup 미역국
“Guk” is a kind of soup in Korean traditional food. As Korean people have a meal with guk, there are a lot of kinds. Koreans eat “sea mustard soup” in breakfast on birthday.
Sea mustard, meat or seafood are put in soup, and it has very special meanings. Sea mustard has been eaten since Goguryeo era. One day, one Goguryeo person saw a whale ate sea mustard after giving birth to young whale, and recover its health.
After that, he started to make mothers eat sea mustard. Sea mustard has many nutrients like calcium and iodine, so it is effective in thinning the blood and promote the circulation of the blood. It is the best food for mothers.
In order to pray safe birth, people didn't cut prices when buying sea mustard for mothers. And mothers didn't cut long sea mustard, worrying that their babies come to an untimely end. This tradition has been continued so far, so mothers recover their health while eating sea mustard soup. But grown child eat the soup on his or her birthday to thank a mother.
However, sea mustard soup also has a negative meaning like “failure.” The texture of sea mustard is slippery. So there is a vulgar belief, saying that a test taker would fail the exam after eating sea mustard soup. Therefore, some people say “having sea mustard soup” when someone fails the exam.
To make sea mustard soup, you should fry sea mustard with sesame oil, put water and boil for a while. And then season it with soy sauce and salt.
Some people add beef, clam or fish.It is simple food, but you can taste deep and aromatic sea mustard. People usually eat sea mustard soup on birthday, but add the soup to spicy food. You can buy instant sea mustard soup in convenience store.
You can also buy instant rice, packaged kimchi, so you can set the table for birthday in Korean style. If you have a birthday in Korea, you should enjoy special birthday with sea mustard soup and rice.
4. The Kinds of Sea Mustard Soup
Various ingredients are added to the soup with sea mustard according to the region and taste. People living close to beach use clam and fish, so it is fresh and light. City people usually put beef in a soup, so it is aromatic.
In Gangwon-do Province, which harvests a lot of potato, put potato and perilla powder in sea mustard soup.
5. The Way To Enjoy Delicious Sea Mustard Soup
Beef is usually put in sea mustard soup in Seoul. Since it is a little bit greasy, you should eat the soup when it is hot. The texture of sea mustard is more soft when the soup is hot. Korean people eat soup with rice.
If you eat sea mustard soup, you should put rice into soup and put some kimchi on it. The taste would be out of this world!
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