I love the idea of combining two cuisines. My mom actually made this for me growing up and it was always one of my favorites!
Most of the ingredients are based off Kimchi fried rice but I used Italian cooking technique to make it more pasta-like instead of a stir fry.
It might sound weird but it's easily my top 5 pasta 🍝
Let me know what other recipes you'd like to see next!
INGREDIENTS
1 lbs spaghetti
2 cups sour kimchi, chopped - Sour kimchi is just fresh kimchi that was been in the fridge for about 2 weeks or longer. Sour kimchi works better when cooked but fresh kimchi will work, just different flavor
~1 tbsp olive oil
4 cloves garlic, sliced
2 bunches green onion
1/2 tbsp brown sugar - or more to counteract sourness from kimchi
2 tsp gochugaru (coarse korean chili power) - can sub with 1 tsp crushed red chili flake
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp MSG
1-2 cup pasta water as needed
Salt and pepper to taste
Sesame seeds for garnish (optional)
DIRECTIONS
1. Begin boiling water for pasta.
2. Cut kimchi using kitchen scissors into small pieces.
3. Slice green onion, reserving some green parts for garnish.
4. Slice garlic.
5. Salt pasta water and place pasta into water. Cook for 2 minutes less than package directions.
6. Once green onion & garlic are fragrant, add kimchi and stir fry until most of the juice has evaporated.
7. Add gochugaru and stir in vigorously. This can burn easily so move quickly!
8. Push ingredients to side and add brown sugar directly on pan to scorch sugar.
9. After 10 seconds of cooking the sugar, add the soy sauce directly on pan as well. Let scorch until it bubbles and slightly thickens. Then stir into kimchi mixture.
10. Add MSG and stir in well.
11. Add 1 ladle of pasta water directly into mixture and stir well. Sauce should thicken a bit.
12. Transfer slightly undercooked pasta directly into pan along with another ladle of pasta water. Cook everything until pasta is al dente. Taste for doneness. Add additional pasta water if necessary.
13. Once pasta is cooked, turn off heat and then mix in sesame seeds.
14. Plate and top with additional sesame seeds and green part of green onion.
15. Enjoy :)
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