The second of a series of cookery classes organised by the KCC featuring Da-Hae West:
Online Korean Cuisine Class: Cooking with Kimchi
Friday 16 April 2021, 17:30 – 18:30 via ZOOM
Entrance Free – Booking Essential
Apply to [email protected] with your name, email by 11 April 2021
For the second session of our Korean Cuisine Classes, the KCCUK presents another online class looking at the wonders of Kimchi. This time, you can get some cooking tips, using your homemade kimchi, which you made in the previous class.
The instructor, Da-Hae West is a Korean cookery teacher, consultant and author of K-Food. Da-Hae is an authority on Korean food, having worked behind the scenes on TV shows Gizzi Erskine’s Seoul Food and John Torode’s Korean Food Tour, as well as personally appearing on the BBC’s One Show and The Travel Channel’s Footie Shorts.
During this class, Da-Hae will introduce two delicious dishes made using Kimchi, which is Kimchi-jeon (Kimchi pancake) and Kimchi Bokkeumbap (Kimchi fried rice). The event features a demonstration of how to easily make these dishes using shop bought ingredients.
Introducing Kimchi
Kimchi is a staple in Korean Cuisine, which is served as a side dish with every meal. It’s a fermented food made of cabbage and a variety of seasonings. There are a lot of varieties which include radish, onion, cucumber and different spices. It can be eaten on its own or used to make other dishes like kimchi fried rice or kimchi pancakes. Kimchi is known as a healthy super food, which contains a form of lactobacillus bacteria. These healthy microorganisms remove harmful bacteria and help to restore gut health.
Introducing Hansik
Hansik refers to Korean food, or Korean cuisine. According to the Korean Food Promotion Act, hansik specifically means “food made using food ingredients used in Korea, or similar ingredients, and food made using Korea’s traditional cooking methods or similar recipes, as well as making use of tangible and intangible resources, activities and food culture related to that food.”
Koreans usually eat rice as their staple food and have it with various side dishes. Basic side dishes included a soup or stew, kimchi, and sauces and pastes, as well as other various types of food made using meat, fish, and vegetables.
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