Cold cucumber soup (Oi naengguk)

Here's a refreshing summer dish I think you will enjoy.
Full recipe is on my blog:
http://blog.maangchi.com/2008/08/oi-naengguk-cold-cucumber-soup-side.html

Ingredients:
Cucumber, garlic, green chili pepper, red hot chili pepper, green onion , 1½ tbs vinegar, 1 ts salt, 1 ts fish sauce, 1 ts sugar, 1½ cup of cold water (purified or boiled and cooled down), and 6 ice cubes.
1. Get a bowl ready, one that can hold more than 2 cups. One that is made of glass looks the best.
2. Put about 1¼ cups of cucumber, cut into thin strips (julienne style), into the bowl.
3. Mince one clove of garlic, chop up half a green onion, and cut up 1 or 2 ts worth of green chili pepper (depending on how hot you like it). Add them to the cucumber strips in the bowl.

4. Add 1 ts of salt, 1 ts of fish sauce, 1 ½ tbs of vinegar, 1 ts of sugar to the bowl and mix it well with a spoon.
5. Pour 1½ cup of cold water (purified or boiled and cooled down) to the bowl and mix it.
6. Add 6 ice cubes.
7. Cut some red hot chili pepper to garnish and sprinkle on the top of the soup.
8. Serve it with rice.



You can also make naengguk with miyuk (sea plant), or egg plant, instead of cucumber. Or you can make it with mi yuk (sea plant) together with cucumber, too. You can try some different combinations to see what you like the best.

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[HRentai]

I favorite this video...and today I watched it again and decided to try and make some~ it's so refreshing! :) I love it, I was surprised by the taste o: ~ thank you maangchiii~ ^^

[Maangchi]

@HRentai I'm glad to hear that! Cheers!

[mrlolalo]

you said that some Koreans use gochu garu for oi naengguk. How much gochu garu would you recommend to use?

[Maangchi]

@mrlolalo 1/2 or 1 ts?

[TankeyTop]

I just went and made this right after I saw this vid and I'm eating it now. It's soooo refreshing and delicious, thank you so muchhhh :D

[Maangchi]

@TankeyTop great news!

[runescapeaddict111]

Your videos are amazing, they should all be 5/5! Amazing cooking skills, I love your videos! :D

[missmuffinhead]

Maaangchi is SOo cute! Love her.

[theuglykwan]

I love gazpacho too and drink it by the carton in the summer when i am in europe. I always said to myself, this kind of cold refreshing soup would be so foreign to asian ppl. So glad to have been proved wrong. :D

[HRentai]

@threelittlewonders What you're thinking of is, "Naengmyeon - Korean Cold Noodles " :)

[deebadestinyhope]

Cold kyungcumber soup c:

[9987ifY]

I forgot to say but I made this about a month ago for my family and we loved it, thank you Maangchi!

[stotherizzle]

I liked her ice cube joke...so cute :)

[SandraCui]

this song.. goddd. i still remember my mum forcing me to learn this song ;D