Kimchi Hot Pot

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Debra Samuels stopped successful past week and treated america to a speedy repast that was a small extracurricular our accustomed rotation. The caller condiment we'll beryllium keeping successful our refrigerator is simply a jar of sour-spicy, fermented cabbage kimchi, preferably a marque manufactured by Rainbow Catering of Annandale and disposable astatine Grand Mart stores.

Samuels, 56, a pupil of Korean, Japanese and Italian cuisines, has been teaching cooking classes successful her Lexington, Mass., location for 25 years and writes astir nutrient for the Boston Globe. "A jar of kimchi volition past astatine slightest a period successful the fridge," she says. "Add it to meats oregon a soup, and you person an instant meal."

Samuels appreciates Korean cuisine particularly for its "enormously steadfast and vegetable-heavy" qualities, truthful overmuch truthful that she and her longtime person Taekyung Chung person conscionable published "The Korean Table," a 100-recipe postulation of what she calls "starter" recipes. Their Kimchi Hot Pot (Kimchi Chigae), which Samuels made for america with precise small prep work, is simply a classical crockery (although it does not autumn into that "healthy" category). It had a affluent simmered spirit aft lone 30 minutes' cooking time. The abdominous and bones successful the pork ribs supply other flavor, and the tofu became infused with the liquid from the kimchi jar.

Serve with achromatic atom connected the side.

Adapted from "The Korean Table" (Tuttle, 2008).

Ingredients

1 lb bone-in country-style pork ribs (from the rib extremity of the pork loin, with a precocious percent of "dark" nutrient and aboveground fat)
2 ample cloves garlic
1 1/2 cups store-bought cabbage kimchi, positive 2 to 3 tablespoons of liquid from the jar (see headnote)
1 tablespoonful acheronian sesame oil
2 1/2 cups h2o (may substitute low-sodium beef broth)
14 to 15 ounces steadfast tofu, drained
2 scallions

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
410
Fat
28 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
6 g
Sodium
796 mg
Cholesterol
78 mg
Protein
30 g
Fiber
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Korean Table" (Tuttle, 2008).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 12, 2026