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Samgyetang, Whole Young Chicken
Kim Seon-hui
Chef-owner, Hanok Sotgol, Seoul, KR
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Samgyetang, Whole Young Chicken

2 h total35 min hands-onServes 2Easy

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A whole young bird stuffed with rice, boiled until the broth turns white on its own.

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, Cooking twine, Stone bowls if you have them
Allergens
Nuts
Method
17 steps · 14 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 13 min

2 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».

Rice and ginseng stuffing

Film

Soaked glutinous rice mixed with jujube, chestnut and a whole ginseng root, packed loosely into the cavity.

The rice thickens the broth from inside the bird. Packed tight it swells and tears the chicken open in the first twenty minutes.

  • Glutinous rice000 g
  • Fresh ginseng000 g
Steps
5
Time
2.2 h
Hands-on
15 min

Makes Fills 2 poussins

Soak the rice the night before

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Dipping salt

Coarse salt toasted dry with black pepper and a little sesame.

The broth is deliberately unsalted so it stays clean; the seasoning happens at the table, one bite at a time.

  • Coarse salt000 g
  • Black peppercorns000 g
Steps
3
Time
8 min
Hands-on
6 min

Makes 60 g · keeps indefinitely

Any time

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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.

  • Poussin000 g
  • Glutinous rice000 g
  • Fresh ginseng000 g
  • Jujube000 g
  • Garlic000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 13 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

Fresh, dried and cultured ginseng root

TECHNIQUE4:00

Trussing so the stuffing stays in

KIT3:00

Pot size and why the bird must be covered

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 17 STEPS

14 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 17 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: filling the cavity without splitting it — step 10 of 17.

  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. + 11 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

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

  1. 01

    Two-thirds full, never packed

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Skimming once at the twenty-minute mark

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Turning the leftover broth into juk

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

How much rice goes in before the bird splits, and the simmer that whitens the broth instead of clouding it.

Written by Kim Seon-hui. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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