I love chicken soup, any dishes with chicken.
Especially Baeksuk, meaning stew in Korean.
백숙 originally means something that you boil or steam,
so it can be with pork, chicken, or beef.
Nowadays people usually think of chicken stew when they hear the word 백숙
which is 닭 백숙, chicken stew.
The traditional way of cooking 닭백숙,
Dak Baeksuk would take about several hours.
Today I'm making one hour chicken Baeksuk!
Simple Chicken Baeksuk
(Korean style chicken soup)
Prep Time 15-20 MinutesCooking Time 1-2 Hours
Serving 3-4 people
Ingredients
1 Carrot or 5-6 mini carrots - I used 5-6 mini carrots.1/2 Onion - You can use whole onion, but 1/2 size is okay.
1 tbsp Garlic - you can use peeled one, I used blended garlic that I made before.
8 Pieces of chicken breasts - you can use more!
1 Tbsp Soy sauce - I have several soy sauces at home, and use soy sauce for soup, not for steam, simmered dishes.
1/2 Tbsp Sesame seed oil - It adds up nutty taste, so much better than not having it.
Salt and pepper - For taste, I only used pepper here.
Instructions
1. Prepare the ingredients
Slice carrots and onion.
I chose to slice them because chicken breasts are sliced shape.
It just looks right.
If your meat is chunk, cubic shape, try dice veggie!
And you definitely need garlic.
For taste, but more for aroma.
It covers all bad chicken smell from soup.
And my chicken breasts!
I bought it from Costco, it had too many chicken breasts oh my...
Finally I'm bored with grilled chicken now,
I decided to use them as soup.
And get sesame seed oil.
It adds up nutty aroma to the soup.
If you skip this oil, you might not have same taste as I do
2. Start the soup
Since chicken breasts had to be softened,
let it boil in high!
Add some water.
What I meant by some, it is about fill up chickens, meats.
When water level goes down, you can always add more.
If you add too much water at first (which is now),
it's hard to get right amount of salt and soy sauce.
Oh and by the way,
when water starts to boil, you will get these white thingy.
They taste bad and might cause the bitterness to the soup,
so get all of them away.
Don't keep them in your soup!
Do you see how clear it is?
3. Make the broth
Now add veggies to the soup.
If you have green onions, or leek, that must be perfect choice.
Since I don't... I will just use carrots and onions.
Adding veggie into the soup
adds up more taste and sweetness!
Let it boil for about 5-10 minutes,
until carrots are all cooked.
4. Finish the soup
If you don't like salt, just add some soy sauce.
I suggest 1-2 Tablespoons at first.
And add 1/2 Tablespoon or 1 Tablespoon of sesame seed oil to the soup.
It smells different now!
Also let it boil for 3-5 minutes, you are done!
You can enjoy this soup with rice,
or you can also cook somen (wheat noodle) into the soup.
My husband loves somen, so I made him noodle soup with this.
Here's how to cook somen :)
We enjoyed this dish with Kimchi hehe.
For some people it can taste nothing much,
you can add soy sauce, but the soup color will turn black soon,
so add soy sauce 1-2 spoons, then if you still need some salt, use salt.
And if you boil longer, it tastes better (if it's not chicken breast, but raw meat with fat)
Enjoy your chicken Baeksuk with this simple recipe!
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