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Bossam with Radish Kimchi
Jang Mi-ran
Chef-owner, Namsan Bossam Jip, Seoul, KR
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Bossam with Radish Kimchi

3 h total60 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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Belly boiled soft in doenjang, sliced warm, and eaten inside a leaf with something sharp.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Deep pot, Sharp slicer, Large mixing bowl
Allergens
Soy, Crustaceans, Fish
Method
19 steps · 16 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
3 made from scratch
Films
3, 15 min

3 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Aromatic boil

Water set up with doenjang, leek, onion, ginger and a spoon of coffee grounds before the belly goes in.

Plain water leaves the belly smelling of pig. The doenjang and coffee strip that without leaving any flavour of their own.

  • Doenjang000 g
  • Onion000 g
Steps
4
Time
20 min
Hands-on
12 min

Makes 3 L cooking liquid

No — built at the start of the cook

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Musaengchae

Film

Radish cut into matchsticks, salted, drained and dressed with gochugaru, salted shrimp and pear.

This is the acid and heat that makes fatty belly eatable in quantity. Shop kimchi is too fermented and fights the pork.

  • Korean radish000 g
  • Gochugaru000 g
Steps
7
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 700 g · best on day two, keeps 5 days

Up to 2 days ahead

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Ssamjang

Doenjang and gochujang loosened with sesame oil, garlic and chopped spring onion.

Straight doenjang is too salty inside a leaf. The blend is what every Korean table has, and the ratio matters.

  • Doenjang000 g
  • Gochujang000 g
Steps
3
Time
10 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes 200 g · keeps 2 weeks refrigerated

Up to 2 weeks ahead

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Pork belly000 g
  • Doenjang000 g
  • Onion000 g
  • Leek000 g
  • Ginger000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 15 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING6:00

Choosing belly: layers, thickness, skin on or off

TECHNIQUE5:00

Slicing warm belly without tearing it

KIT4:00

Building a ssam so it does not fall apart

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 19 STEPS

16 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 16 of the 19 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: slicing at the right temperature — step 11 of 19.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 13 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Jang Mi-ran watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Testing doneness with a skewer through the thickest layer

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Resting in the liquid, off the heat

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Salting the radish and squeezing it dry

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

What goes in the boiling water to take the pork smell out, and the resting time before the belly is sliced.

Written by Jang Mi-ran. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

213 verified cooks · 92% said it worked

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