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Gondeure Sujebi

곤드레수제비
Gon-deu-re Su-je-bi

Thistle-herb hand-torn dough soup

About the dish

Gangwon's savory sujebi with gondre. Gondeure-sujebi is hand-torn dough soup with Gangwon's mountain green gondre, fragrant and savory. It holds Gangwon's wisdom of filling out scarce food with mountain greens.

Key ingredient

Gondre thistle (gondeure) — easy to digest and traditionally valued for supporting metabolic and circulatory health; dilates veins and has anti-inflammatory, diuretic and hemostatic action; activates liver cells; helps with acne and dermatitis. In season June; mainly from Taebaek.

Ingredients

Main: flour dough, gondre, potato, zucchini, scallion, anchovy-kelp stock · Seasoning: minced garlic, soup soy sauce, perilla oil

Simple recipe

  1. Let the flour dough rest.
  2. Make an anchovy-kelp stock.
  3. Toss blanched gondre in perilla oil.
  4. Tear thin pieces of dough into the boiling stock.
  5. Add the gondre and season with soup soy sauce; serve savory.

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A Glass · Traditional pairing

Gondeuresaengmakgeolli
Jeongseonmyeongju · Gangwon · ABV 6%

Gondeuresaengmakgeolri (Jeongseonmyeongju, Gangwon) — a cloudy rice makgeolli at 6% ABV, chosen to pair with today's dish.

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