๐Ÿฅถ Korean Radish Water Kimchi Recipe (Dongchimi) ๋™์น˜๋ฏธ

 

๐Ÿฅถ๋™์น˜๋ฏธ

Dongchimi is a traditional Korean water kimchi made with whole radishes in a refreshing, lightly fermented brine ๐Ÿฅถ

Known for its crisp texture and clean, tangy flavor, Dongchimi is especially popular during the winter months but enjoyed year-round ๐Ÿ˜‹

The icy broth is often served alongside noodles, grilled meats, and rich Korean dishes for a refreshing contrast!

Today, I'll show you a simple and foolproof Dongchimi recipe that anyone can make at home!

๐Ÿฅถ Ingredients (Serves 8)

4 lb Korean radish (1.8kg)

1/2 cup kosher salt

2 green onions

6 cloves garlic

1 small piece ginger

2 green chili peppers

๐ŸŒŸ Dongchimi Brine

12 cups water

2 tbsp salt

1 tbsp sugar

๐Ÿณ Instructions

  1. Prepare the Radishes

Wash the radishes thoroughly.

Leave them whole or cut them into large chunks ๐Ÿ˜Š

  1. Salt the Radishes

Rub the radishes with kosher salt.

Let sit for 2–3 hours ๐Ÿ˜‹

  1. Rinse and Drain

Rinse lightly and drain well ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  1. Prepare the Container

Place the radishes into a large fermentation container ๐Ÿ˜Š

  1. Add Aromatics

Add:

Green onions

Garlic

Ginger

Green chili peppers

around the radishes ๐Ÿ˜

  1. Make the Brine

Mix water, salt, and sugar until completely dissolved ๐Ÿ˜‹

  1. Pour the Brine

Pour the brine over the radishes until fully submerged ✨

  1. Ferment

Leave at room temperature for 1–2 days.

Transfer to the refrigerator and ferment for 1–2 weeks before serving.

๐Ÿ’ก Tips for the Best Flavor

Use firm, fresh radishes for the best crunch ๐Ÿฅถ

Keep all ingredients submerged in the brine ๐Ÿ˜Š

Longer fermentation creates a deeper flavor ๐Ÿ˜‹

Serve ice cold for maximum refreshment ❄️

Perfect with noodles and grilled meats ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿฅฉ

๐ŸงŠ Storage Tips

Store in the refrigerator.

Best enjoyed within 1 month ๐Ÿ˜Š

Always use clean utensils when serving.

๐Ÿฅ— Final Thoughts

Dongchimi is one of Korea's most refreshing traditional kimchi dishes ๐Ÿฅถ

The crisp radishes and cool, tangy broth create a side dish that's light, flavorful, and incredibly satisfying ๐Ÿ˜‹

Give this easy Dongchimi recipe a try and enjoy authentic Korean flavors at home! ✨



๐ŸฅถKorean Radish Water Kimchi (๋™์น˜๋ฏธ)

๋™์น˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํ†ต์งธ๋กœ ๋‹ด๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์›ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋ง›์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌผ๊น€์น˜์•ผ ๐Ÿฅถ

์•„์‚ญํ•œ ๋ฌด์™€ ์ƒˆ์ฝคํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆ™์„ฑ๋œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์ž…๋ง›์„ ๋‹์›Œ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ  ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๊น€์น˜๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ๐Ÿ˜‹

๋ƒ‰๋ฉด, ์ˆ˜์œก, ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์š”๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋”์šฑ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋ฏธ์•ผ!

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹คํŒจ ์—†๋Š” ๋™์น˜๋ฏธ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค„๊ฒŒ!

๐Ÿฅถ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ (8์ธ๋ถ„)

๋ฌด 1.8kg

๊ตต์€์†Œ๊ธˆ 1/2์ปต

๋Œ€ํŒŒ 2๋Œ€

๋งˆ๋Š˜ 6์ชฝ

์ƒ๊ฐ• 1์กฐ๊ฐ

์ฒญ์–‘๊ณ ์ถ” 2๊ฐœ

๐ŸŒŸ ๋™์น˜๋ฏธ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ

๋ฌผ 12์ปต

์†Œ๊ธˆ 2ํฐ์ˆ 

์„คํƒ• 1ํฐ์ˆ 

๐Ÿณ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  1. ๋ฌด ์†์งˆํ•˜๊ธฐ

๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์”ป์–ด ํ†ต์งธ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํผ์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž˜๋ผ์ค˜ ๐Ÿ˜Š

  1. ์ ˆ์ด๊ธฐ

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  1. ํ—น๊ตฌ๊ธฐ

๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ํ—น๊ตฐ ํ›„ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์ค˜ ๐Ÿ”ฅ

  1. ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ด๊ธฐ

๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊น€์น˜ํ†ต์— ๋‹ด์•„์ค˜ ๐Ÿ˜Š

  1. ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฃŒ ๋„ฃ๊ธฐ

๋Œ€ํŒŒ

๋งˆ๋Š˜

์ƒ๊ฐ•

์ฒญ์–‘๊ณ ์ถ”

๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋„ฃ์–ด์ค˜ ๐Ÿ˜

  1. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ

๋ฌผ์— ์†Œ๊ธˆ๊ณผ ์„คํƒ•์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์ž˜ ๋…น์—ฌ์ค˜ ๐Ÿ˜‹

  1. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ๋ถ“๊ธฐ

๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ž ๊ธฐ๋„๋ก ๋ถ€์–ด์ค˜ ✨

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์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋”์šฑ ์‹œ์›ํ•ด ❄️

๋ƒ‰๋ฉด๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์ตœ๊ณ  ๐Ÿœ

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์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์น˜๋ฏธ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ด! ✨