Easiest Way to Make Tasty Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew)

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Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew). Dried anchovies, dried kelp, eggs, garlic, green onion, hot pepper flakes, kimchi, korean radish, onion, pork, pork belly, salt, sesame oil, soft tofu, sugar, vegetable oil. Sundubu-jjigae (순두부찌개, -豆腐–) or soft tofu stew is a jjigae (찌개, Korean stew) in Korean cuisine. The dish is made with freshly curdled soft tofu (which has not been strained and pressed), vegetables, sometimes mushrooms, onion, optional seafood.

I also want to highlight that there are two different types of soft tofu available at a Korean grocery store.

Vegan kampoong tofu spicy and crunchy garlic tofu!

Vegan Sundubu Jjigae or Korean Soft Tofu Stew Recipe.

You can cook Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew)

1. Prepare 1 pack of soft tofu.

2. It’s 100 g of meats / 100 g seafood (clams, prawns, mussels, crab, squid, etc), you can choose what your favorite item.

3. Prepare of Green onions.

4. You need 1 of Onion, minced.

5. It’s 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced.

6. It’s 1 of Chili, minced.

7. You need 1 tsp of soy sauce/fish sauce.

8. You need 4 tsp of chili powder.

9. You need 2 tsp of sesame oil.

10. You need 2 slices of kombu/ dashi for stock.

11. You need 250 ml of water.

12. It’s 1 of egg.

Sundubu Jjigae or Soft Tofu Stew recipe that is so easy to make and so delicious that my husband told me it's almost as good, if not better than the ones at the restaurant!

I would have never imagined that Sundubu Jjigae would become so popular with non-Koreans.

I always thought that it was.

This warming and comforting jjigae (Korean stew) is made with extra soft tofu (soondubu), thinly sliced meat, kimchi and anchovy broth.

Sundubu Jjigae (Spicy Tofu Stew) instructions

1. Make the kombu stock, just boil water with kombu/dashi for 5 minutes..

2. Heat the hot pot and put sesame oil, minced garlics, minced onions, and chili powder, stir for 5 minutes until mix well..

3. Put the stock and soy sauce, mix well..

4. When the stock boils, put the remaining ingredients like green onions, meats/seafood, and tofu, cooking for 5 minutes and the lastly put egg on the top..

Soondubu jjigae is often served with a raw egg to be cracked in to the boiling hot stew at the table.

The egg adds richness to the stew, but you don't need to add an egg.

In Korean, sundubu is soft tofu and jjigae is stew, thus soft tofu stew!

I kind of think of it more as soup then stew but I guess that's a question of what one considers a soup versus a stew.

Kimchi Sundubu Jjigae: Spicy Kimchi Tofu Stew.