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California Farm Gochujang Pepper Sauce from scratch

Name: How to cook California Farm Gochujang Pepper Sauce from scratch - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, makes 16 cups
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Gochujang Pepper Sauce from scratch

You can order dried gochugaru pepper flakes from Korea or China, ferment your own Gochujang pepper paste. Recipe in here. We also planted gochugaru pepper plants from seeds and grow the pretty red peppers in our garden, so we can make gochujang pepper paste from fresh peppers this fall. A good substitute is Fresno red chili peppers, they have the same sweet and spicy flavor. Warning: the Romamerica dried chili pepper product used in this recipe is deceptive. It says Korean on Amazon, cannot be returned, but it is made in China, and has a miniscule warning sticker that warns against exposure to lead and cadmium. Possibly from red crystalline chemical coloring agents used, the red pepper flakes are shiny.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, makes 16 cups

Cooking time :

Prep 1 week, Ferment week, age 3 months

460 grams

Gochugaru dried red peppers, or 1,840 grams fresh Gochugaru or Fresno chili peppers

500 grams

rice powder from 2 cups sushi short rice, soaked, dried, ground fine

500 grams

malt powder made from 2 cups whole raw barley, malted, dried, ground fine, makes 2 cups malt powder, or buy ready made

350 grams

soy bean paste, one cup, made from 2 cups dry soy beans and 2 Tbs natto

16 cups

water for dried peppers, 10 cups for fresh peppers

1 cup

dark corn syrup or rice syrup

250 grams

flaked seasalt or less

1/2 Cup

rice wine

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Use digital precision scale to measure the exact weight of gochugaru coarse pepper flakes, and each other ingredient, record carefully so you can adjust flavors when this pepper sauce has been fermented and cooked with, and you have established your taste for the saltiness and the spice level.

* Step 2

Ferment soy beans. Soak dry beans 24 hours, cook 3 hours till soft. Add natto (center picture) after beans have cooled below 176 F degrees. Ferment beans 24 hours at 104F degrees in warm oven. Puree in food processor to paste. (right picture).

* Step 3

Sprout and grow gochujang peppers indoors, called gochugaru. Also called kimchi seeds in some rare seed catalogs. Sprouts well.

* Step 4

Sprout and malt the barley. Soak 2 cups whole unhulled barley overnight, spread on table outside, keep wet till root is same size as kernel, 2 to 5 days. Sun dry till roots fall off. Grind leftover malt hulls into flour.

* Step 5

Or, buy a pound of ready made barley malt powder from a beermaker supplier, a flour mill, or online

* Step 6

Add malt powder to 16 cups of water for dried peppers, or 10 cups for fresh peppers, put in dough mixing bowl, stir.

* Step 7

Grind short sushi rice into rice powder: wash, soak overnight, dry, grind to rice flour, add rice flour to malted water in dough mixing bowl, put in oven. Warm to 91F degrees, let sit 2 hours to allow the malt to turn the starch in the rice to sugar in the solution.

* Step 8

Make the paste. Add the fermented soy beans to the malt rice liquid in dough mixing bowl. Add the dried or fresh peppers. Add the syrup. Make thick smooth batter. Let sit till stiff, few hours.

* Step 9

The traditional Korean recipe is very salty. I use half. Transfer 6 cups paste to 8 cup ceramic crock pot with activated airlock. Add 60 grams flaked seasalt, 10 grams per cup. Transfer 4 cups of paste to 6 cup mason jar with 80 grams of seasalt, 20 grams per cup. Cover with rice wine and loose lid on top to keep insects out. You have now used 140 of 250 grams salt recommended from the original Korean home recipe.

* Step 10

The gochujang will ferment and expand 25%. Keep lids loose on top only to keep insects out. Do not tighten the screwlids. I am stirring daily as gochujang sauce ferments and expands. I transferred the extra gochujang paste to extra mason jars, put 3 cups in 4 cup jars. I now have 16 cups of gochujang fermenting pepper sauce.

* Step 11

Ferment one week in kitchen pantry. Taste the difference between the salt levels, and decide how much more salt to add to the gochujang paste in each pot. I use 20 grams per cup, 4 teaspoons. Add flaked seasalt to taste, ferment and age 3 months or longer, taste weekly. Close mason jars after fermentation has finished. Cover paste in mason jars with rice wine to keep mold out if stored in pantry.