|


Type
Traditional
Hot Pepper Pastes
Glutinous Rice Hot Pepper Paste
Mix glutinous rice flour, the primary ingredient,
with malt syrup, fermented soybean powder, and hot pepper
powder. Season the mixture with salt. In some cases, glutinous
rice flour is steamed and mixed with fermented soybean powder,
hot pepper powder, and salt. Malt syrup is not used.
This hot pepper paste is lustrous and soft, so it ranks
top among hot pepper pastes. Usually, it is used in making
Chogochujang (a sour and sweet hot pepper paste sauce) or
to give an attractive hue to food.
|
Hot
Pepper Paste (Wheat Flour)
This is the most common hot pepper paste.
Mix wheat flour with malt syrup and boil the mixture until
it becomes yellowish and clear. Add fermented soybean powder,
hot pepper powder, and salt. This type of hot pepper paste
is used in seasoning stews and vegetables and in making
pickles.
|
Barley Hot Pepper Paste
This type of hot pepper paste is common
in Chungcheong-do. Grind and pound barley and ferment it
in a room. Mix it with hot pepper powder, fermented soybean
powder, and salt. Malt syrup is not used. This paste is
used as a Ssamjang sauce in the summer
|
Kaoliang Hot Pepper Paste
Boil kaoliang flour in brine to a paste
and add fermented soybean powder, malt syrup, and hot pepper
powder. Season this mixture with salt.
|
Red Bean Hot Pepper Paste
Steam rice flour. Boil soybeans and red
beans completely and mash them to make dough. Mix steamed
rice flour, mashed soybeans, and red beans with hot pepper
powder.
|
Sweet Potato Hot Pepper Paste
This is made from sweet potatoes in Macheon
of Gyeongsang-do, where fire-field farmers live.
|
Garlic Hot Pepper Paste
This is made in the season when garlic
is harvested. Mix powdered glutinous rice, crushed garlic,
and fermented soybean powder with hot pepper powder.
|
Jujube and Glutinous Rice Hot
Pepper Paste
This is made from the mixture of jujubes,
powdered glutinous rice, fermented soybean powder, and hot
pepper powder.
|
Coarse Soybean Flour Hot Pepper
Paste
This is made by mixing coarse soybean flour
left over in the sieve, barley flour, and fermented soybean
powder with hot pepper powder. This paste is usually used
for stews, and tastes sour and sweet
|
Yak Hot Pepper Paste
Also called "Yeokkojang", this type of
paste is common in Jinju and Jeonju. It is made by adding
starch syrup, brown sugar, and boiled starch syrup to hot
pepper paste to make the paste lustrous. It is used as a
sauce for sliced raw beef or bibimbap (boiled rice with
meat and vegetables).
|
Improved
Hot Pepper Pastes
Ginseng Hot Pepper Paste
Mixing ginseng powder with hot pepper paste
adds the taste and flavor of ginseng to the paste. This
paste also has the taste of peanuts. It is a highly nutritious
paste.
|
Pumpkin
Seed Hot Pepper Paste
Thanks to the use of pumpkin seeds, this
paste is quite tasty and functionally nutritious.
|
Apple Hot Pepper Paste
This paste can reduce the salty and spicy
taste of traditional hot pepper pastes. It also has a plain
and sour taste to appeal to the palate of young people.
It contains minerals from apples. In particular, the acid
contained in apples heals the inflammation of inner organs
and removes impurities from the body.
|
Peach Hot Pepper Paste
Make a concentrated peach solution from
low-grade peaches that are harvested after peak harvest
season or damaged by natural disasters. Use the solution
in making hot pepper paste. It can help make up for financial
losses of farmers. It is tasty and is rich in nutrition
as well.
|
Fruit Juice Hot Pepper Paste
Malt is often used as an enzyme for saccharifying
hot pepper paste. This paste uses fruit juice that meet
the taste of consumers, instead of malt. The fruit juice
reduces the duration of saccharifying and adds fruit minerals
and flavors to the hot pepper paste.
|
Embryo Bud (of Rice) Hot Pepper
Paste
This is made by using embryo buds of rice
that contain more vitamins, minerals, and other special
nutrients than common starch flour, such as glutinous rice
flour, ordinary rice flour, and wheat flour.
|
Garlic Hot Pepper Paste
This is made in the season when garlic
is harvested. Mix powdered glutinous rice, crushed garlic,
and fermented soybean powder with hot pepper powder.
|
|
|