Pumpkin Sauce Soup
A traditional Korean soup made with tender pumpkin, shredded chicken, and green pepper strips, seasoned with gochujang and doenjang for a spicy, savory flavor.
Ingredients
Instructions
Marinate the chicken
Rinse the chicken, remove the sinew, and cut it into 6 cm strips. Marinate with soy sauce, scallion strips, minced garlic, sugar, ground pepper, and fine salt until seasoned, then set aside.
Prepare the vegetables
Cut the tender pumpkin into 4 wedges, peel, deseed, remove the stems, and cut into 3 cm cubes. Wash the small green peppers and fresh chili peppers, remove the stems, and cut both into strips.
Stir-fry into soup
Heat a wok, add the peanut oil, and when it reaches about 50% hot, add the marinated chicken strips and stir-fry briefly. Add the pumpkin, small green peppers, fresh chili peppers, and scallion whites, stir to combine, bring to a boil, and serve.