Cucumber kimchi (oisobagi kimchi) and radish soup with beef

Cucumber kimchi is made by turning a cucumber into a pocket and stuffing it with vegetables and kimchi paste. It's delicious, and goes well with radish soup. I'll show you how to make both of them for one perfect, well-balanced, low-calorie meal.

Ingredients:
1. 6 cucumbers  (10-12 kirby cucumbers)
2. carrot (shredded ¼ cup)
3. onion (¼ cup), green onions, Asian chives (2 cups)
4. garlic, fish sauce
5. hot pepper flakes, sugar.

Directions:
1. Wash cucumbers and cut them in half crosswise .  Make pockets out of cross slits, leaving about ½ inch on end and make 4 slits. (Don't cut them all the way through).
2. Put them in a big bowl
3. Sprinkle a half cup of salt onto the cucumber pieces, mix them carefully, and wait for 30 minutes
4. In a big bowl, place a quarter cup of fish sauce, a half cup of hot pepper flakes, 2 cloves of minced garlic and 1 tbs of sugar, and mix them with a spoon.
5. Chop Asian chives 1 inch (about 2 cm) in length (2 cups) and cut 3 green onions diagonally as the same size as the chives, shred some carrot (1/4 cup) , slice the onion (1/4 cup) thinly and place all this into the mixture of the seasoning paste. Mix it up with a spoon.
6. Wash the cucumbers and drain them. Stuff the seasoning paste into the slotted cucumber and put each cucumber into an airtight container. You can wear rubber gloves while stuffing, if you want to protect your hands.
7. Right after making it, you can eat it. But keep the leftover kimchii in the refrigerator.

Radish soup with beef (for 2-3 servings)
Ingredients:
1. 150 grams of beef brisket
2. 2½ cups of sliced Korean radish
3. 3 green onions
4. 4 cloves of minced garlic
5. ½ cup of fish sauce
6. 6 cups of water

Directions:
1. Prepare a pot and pour 6 cups of water
2. Cut radish into diagonally and thinly (about 2½ cups) and put it into the pot and cook it over medium high heat
3. Chop beef brisket (150 grams) into small chunks and mince 3 or 4 cloves of garlic
4. When the soup starts boiling about 10 minutes after, add the chunks of beef and garlic and boil it about 15 minutes more over medium heat.
5. Skim the bubbles or stuff off the surface and add some fish sauce(depending on your taste) and put chopped green onions and cook 5 or 10minutes more over medium heat

Barley rice
Ingredients:
1 cup of uncooked rice, 1 cup of barley and 2½ cup of water.
Directions:
1. Rinse the mixture of rice and barley in a pot.
2. Put 2½ cup of water and cover the lid of the pot.
3. Heat it over high heat until it boils, and stir it with a spoon a few times.
4. Simmer about 20 minutes over low heat

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[regyme]

I love things extra spicy, can I mix habenero and sriracha with the ingredients?

[Maangchi]

@regyme oot, you must love spicy food! Why not! : )

[MURA1243]

is that pepper flakes or pepper powder?

[Maangchi]

@MURA1243 pepper flakes. Check out the photo of hot pepper flakes on ingredients section on my website if you want.

[RicexLoverx]

Maangchi, I wanted to leave the beef out of the soup. Do you think thats a good a idea?

[Maangchi]

@RicexLoverx hmm, Beef makes the soup delicious.

[hyperhumana]

Ypu are extremly charming person, and ypur recipes are wery well presented. I shall try it as soon as i can.

Good luck to you and greetings from Poland!

[liannevictoria]

hello maangchi! I've been following your videos for a few months now. watching over and over again how you cook your food :-) You make it so enjoyable to watch....finally made my first dish from your blog - going to eat oisobagi, steam rice and radish soup with my brother and fiance tonight!!! thank you for sharing, love your spirit. (from London)

[yerlis95]

That looks gooood.

[angryrodney]

In South Africa we don't find big bag of hot pepper flakes -we get peri peri and chili powder and paprika-what is the best to use for cucumber kinchi-maybe i should mix paprika and chili powder maybe 5tps -1 tsp?I like the red colour the Korean pepper flakes give to the mix-maybe i can order from you-will you send it if I pay you ;-)

[Distilled13]

yum ! marry me? lol thank you for sharing :)

[regyme]

@Maangchi I love spicy food to a passion :)

[IluvKirito]

Ahh somebody stop me, it's 1:37 AM and I wanna go into the kitchen and cook everything on this channel right now!! xD

[wishiwaskorean]

How long can this cucumber kimchi be kept?

[TheDumbry]

@koolilaura. You can not use hot pepper paste for this recipe. You can use hot pepper paste for spicy pork or spicy squid.

[koolilaura]

can i use the hot pepper paste instead of that hot pepper flakes? :)