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However, I also have to say that I didn’t know that being a sous chef meant doing the research on the recipe, making the grocery list, chopping up the ingredients, and doing the majority of the cooking…
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One of the reasons for making mandu, which we pan fried the first day, was that hubby wanted to make our version of Dduk Mandu Guk, a soup with rice cakes and dumplings, the next day. I believe, traditionally, anchovies are boiled to make the broth for this soup, but hubby doesn’t really care for anchovies, so we used a vegetable broth.
Dduk Mandu Guk
Ingredients
- 4 cups of vegetable broth
- 8 ounces Korean rice cakes (I bought the package in a Korean grocery store and the package said “rice ovaletts.”)
- 8 mandu dumplings (you can make them yourself like we did, or you can buy them fresh or frozen in a Korean grocery market.)
- 4 ounces soft tofu
- 3 green onion stalks
- Bring the vegetable broth to a boil and add the dumplings. Lower the heat to a simmer and simmer the dumplings for about 5 minutes.
- Add the tofu to the pot and cook for another minute.
- Then add the rice cakes and boil for 30 seconds. Don’t overcook!
- Put the soup into bowls and serve with green onions.
Prep and Cooking Time: 10 – 15 minutes
Here is a picture of the “rice ovaletts” I used.
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Hubby and I ate the soup with kimchi and dried, spicy squid. Yum!
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I know I threw you under the bus earlier, but thank you, hubby, for a fun afternoon and a very delicious meal! I honestly wouldn’t have made neither the mandu nor the soup without your “masterminding!”
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Questions: What’s your favorite soup? Have you ever made homemade dumplings? If so, how did it go? Any fun weekend plans?
Be well,
Andrea