Jeoneo Gui

About the dish

Autumn sets Korea's most bountiful table, when delicacies of land and sea arrive from every corner and gourmets keep happily busy. Of all the season's foods, none is more talked about than jeoneo — the fish whose aroma on the grill, as the saying goes, turns even a runaway daughter-in-law back home.

Key ingredient

Gizzard shad (jeoneo) — the famed 'autumn jeoneo,' rich in unsaturated fatty acids for healthy blood vessels; eaten bones and all for calcium, with DHA to support the brain. In season in autumn, from the west and south coasts.

Ingredients

Main: gizzard shad (jeoneo), coarse salt · Seasoning: salt

Simple recipe

1. Clean the fish with the scales on and score the flesh.
2. Sprinkle with coarse salt.
3. Lay on a grill rack.
4. Grill until the fat sizzles.
5. Serve whole, head and all, as an autumn delicacy.

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