Spicy fish soup (maeuntang)

Mila and I make hot spicy fish soup with vegetables that I'm sure you'll enjoy!

Full recipe: http://www.maangchi.com/recipes/maeuntang

servings. Total cooking hours: 1-1½ hours.
Ingredients:

a red snapper (25 cm long), 4 clams, 4 large shrimp, Korean radish, 2 shiitake mushrooms, water,kelp, fish sauce, salt, minari (water dropwort), enoki mushroom, ssukgat (edible chrysanthemum), green onions, green chili pepper, red chili pepper, half an onion, cooking wine, ginger.

Make stock first!
1. Soak 2 shiitake mushrooms in warm water for 3-4 hours and cut them into bite size in length.
2. Soak 4-5 clams in cold salty water (2 cups of cold water +1 tbs salt) for at least 3-4 hours and wash them and set them aside.
3. Cut  radish thinly into about 3×4 cm size, 0.2-0.3 cm in thickness.
4. Place the sliced radish (about 1 cup), the pieces of mushroom, and some kelp in a pot.
5. Pour 6-7 cups of water into the pot and boil it over high heat for 20 minutes.

Make maeuntang sauce:
1. Place 7 cloves galic, ½ medium size onion, ½ tbs ginger, 2 tbs cooking wine (or soju), 2 tbs hot pepper flakes, 1 tbs hot pepper paste, 2 tbs fish sauce in the food processor and grind it for about 1 minute.
2. Set it aside.

Prepare  fish:
1. Put a red snapper on a cutting board and clean out guts, remove scales and fins. Wash it in cold water, cut it into chunks, and set it aside.
*tip: to save time, you can ask your fishmonger to do this for you
2. Prepare 4 large shrimp: remove the heads and intestines, wash them, and set aside.

Prepare vegetables:
1. Clean ssukgat (edible chrysanthemum) and cut it into 7 cm long pieces.
2. Clean minari (water dropwort) and cut it into 7 cm long pieces.
3. Cut out the bottom part of enoki mushrooms and wash and split them.
4. Slice some green onions, 1 green chili pepper, 1 red chili pepper,
5. After boiling stock for 20 minutes, open the lid of the pot and take out kelp.
6. Place chunks of the fish, shrimp, clams in the boiling stock.
7. Add the maeuntang hot sauce and boil it all over medium heat for 30 minutes.
*tip: It might boil over from time to time. Open the lid and remove the floating foam from the top and then close the lid halfway
8. Add ½ ts of salt, enoki mushrooms, minari (water dropwort) and ssukgat (garland chrysanthemum), green chili pepper, red chili pepper, and boil a few more minutes before serving.

Your maeuntang is done!
Serving:
Put some fish soup in a bowl for each person and provide each person with a bowl to collect fish bones and serve with rice and other side dishes.

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[kenangansmlm]

do we really need to put cooking wine? can i just skip it and put some plain water?

[Maangchi]

@kenangansmlm yes, use water, it will still be delicious. Happy cooking!

[nyktm1]

Hi am frm Nepal and I luv Korean food a lot lot ..whenever I see ur cooking am hungry again ...can Meet u so I can learn frm y a lot...

[Maangchi]

@nyktm1 Happy cooking! 

[Mclilkey]

hi, plz help me, I'm going to cook your Spicy fish soup recipe for my birthday party, but i can't find "kelp" in my local. What can i replace it? Thanks so much.

[Maangchi]

@Mclilkey Skip it. It will still be very delicious. 

[ahempoot]

Maangchi, May I share a method of scaling a fish with u? My grandfather would always put the fish in a plastic bag(the kind u get from the grocerry store) and in the sink he would scaled the fish with a spoon ( the stainless soup spoon). He said that way the fish scale does not fly everywhere. It seems to work for our family.

[bren5209]

wow u always fill the cooking pot to the max! Look yummy.

[oogp]

@Maangchi haha!

[rapat100]

AAA+ luv it like to c more .... Thanks 4 ur video

[wjestick]

Another option for scaling fish is to do it in a basin of water. The scales do not fly everywhere.

Nice looking recipe.

[fantasyvideo88]

it tastes delicious it is the best fish soup I ever taste