What new meal do you want to try?

[poppymaewrite]

Is there a dish, or maybe a cuisine, that you’ve wanted to try for ages? And a separate question- although your answer might be the same- is what dish would you want to cook at home, but haven’t gotten round to making yet?

I really want to try a Korean army stew, it looks amazing. It seems easy enough to cook at home, but I’ve been put off because I need to buy the Gochujang paste! I feel that, generally, I want to eat more South Asian/South East Asian food.

My chicken noodle soup goes down well but I'm my own harshest critic so I apologise if it's shit. (I'm a chef but have no ego or self-belief until someone has actually eaten and approved my food iyswim.)
Here goes: take-

1 or more chicken carcass(es) without skin but with good bits of meat on.
1 onion, cut in half (don't need to peel)
2 carrots, cut in half (don't need to peel)
Small handful peppercorns
4ish sage leaves
Some salt if you want

Put all of the above in a pan and cover with water. Lid on, boil then simmer for approximately 1 decade (or maybe 2 hours? Top up water if necessary)

Drain. IMPORTANT- put a colander in a pan and then drain. Do not, I repeat- DO NOT drain straight into sink.

Squish those bones and vegetables til you can squish no more- get all the juice out.

Pick all good bits of chicken out of colander, add to pan with stock that you definitely didn't drain straight down the sink again.

Chop 3 carrots (peeled this time) and 4 peeled potatoes, chuck in pan with stock and chicken. Add 1 chicken stock cube (I use the knorr ones)- I know this seems pointless seeing as we've just made stock but it adds a certain je ne said quoi.

Boil until the veg is cooked, add several hundred nests of vermicelli, keep boiling until cooked.

I shake in loads of soy sauce upon serving and have Ukrainian rye bread or tiger bread (a shit-load) and a full pack of butter on the table.

Army stew is grim.

Gochujang and gochugaru are both fantastic. You need both to try Korean food properly. Plus kimchi of course.

I love cooking Korean.

I have never mastered making a good curry or dhal. Some have been fine, but not great. People often post on here to say This one, best recipe ever and I try it and am a but disappointed. I don't even really know what I want it to be, I just know it is never right.

@Youcancallmeval

Try this one (if you can face trying another one...)! It’s beautifully rich and nutty with the tadka. We make a vat of it once in a while and freeze portions to have it readily available at all times as we love it so much. I do tend to cook it for much longer than she says though.

Oh and I also soak the lentils overnight.

Oh fgs forgot the link!

www.vegrecipesofindia.com/restaurant-style-dal-tadka/

I am Korean and I have never had army stew. Sounds revolting and not very authentic.

A batter representative of a Korean stew would be soon doobu jiggle (my favourite).

To the person who finds the entire Korean repertoire of food disgusting, I would say that you had bad food. The typical Korean meal is rice, vegetable banchaan, grilled salted fish, and a soup - pretty simple.

Anyone who finds Kalbi gui or bulgogi revolting is...strange.

giggae not giggle !

Holly seeing as you sell it so well, I shall give that one a try, thank you very much for your recommendation

We use that paste often. Love it. Definitely worth it.