Korean
Doenjang Soybean Paste Stew
Doenjang Soybean Paste Stew is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup doenjang soybean paste
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 14 oz firm tofu
- 1 zucchini
- 1 russet potato
- 1 onion
- 6 oz shiitake mushrooms
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp gochugaru
- 3 scallions
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 5 cups vegetable broth
How to cook it
- Bring the vegetable broth to a simmer and whisk in the doenjang and soy sauce until dissolved.
- Add the diced potato and onion and cook 8 minutes.
- Stir in the zucchini, mushrooms, garlic, and gochugaru and simmer until the potato is tender, about 8 minutes.
- Add the cubed tofu and warm through, about 3 minutes.
- Finish with sesame oil and scallions.
- Serve hot with rice.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Doenjang Soybean Paste Stew carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Japchae Glass Noodle Stir-Fry |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Doenjang Soybean Paste Stew takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tofu, zucchini, potato, and mushroom.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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