How to Make Yummy *Namul Salad

Delicious, fresh and tasty.

*Namul Salad. Simply delicious Korean style seasoned mung bean sprouts salad! Today's recipe is another simple side dish (banchan) called Sukju Namul Muchim (숙주나물 무침, Korean style seasoned mung bean sprouts salad). It's made in almost the same way with almost identical ingredients (except for the quantity) to the spinach side dish I posted recently.

*Namul Salad It's fresh, delicious, healthy, and it's easy to make. Appetizers and side dishes play a key role in Korean cuisine, and this recipe has everything you need to make a particular tasty side—seasoned spinach "salad." Spinach was the vegetable that Popeye relied on to stay strong, and for good reason as the food is chock full of iron. Also, even they are cooked and made into Korean Bean Sprout Salad or Namul, they spoil pretty quickly also. You can have *Namul Salad using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of *Namul Salad

  1. It's 50 g of bean sprouts.
  2. It's 2 slices of ham.
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp. of sesame oil.
  4. You need 1 tbsp. of chicken stock.

Seeing how the mung bean sprouts change so quickly, Korean people living during the times of King Sejo started calling it "sukju" saying that mung bean sprouts change quickly and easily just like how Shin Sukju changed his allegiance. Gaji-namul is a simple, delicious, everyday Korean side dish, meant to be eaten with other side dishes and rice. I love the fresh taste, soft texture, and the beautiful vibrant purple color of the dish on the table. Namul (NAHmool) in banchan speak typically refers to vegetable matter made in more of a fresh (not necessarily raw, but as opposed to pickled or preserved) preparation, and often using leafy greens and sprouts.

*Namul Salad instructions

  1. Boil bean sprouts in the water..
  2. Cut the ham and cucumber into strips..
  3. Add chicken stock..
  4. Add sesame oil and stir the ingredients..

This Korean side dish is also the perfect easy food idea for a summer picnic, easy to pack, store them in your cooler to take on the road or to the park. Korean Spinach Side Dish Nutrition: Spinach is a super food loaded with tons of nutrients, low-calorie and when you eat spinach that has been heated, you will absorb higher levels of vitamins A and E, protein, fiber, zinc, thiamine, calcium. Sukju Namul is a type of banchan, or side dish, and fits in the same category as dishes like kimchi, pajeon, and kkakdugi. Although there are many different styles of this popular bean sprout salad including ingredients like carrots and cucumber, I like to keep it simple. The bean sprout salad is a pretty common dish housewives in Japan make.