Korean Spicy chicken stew/Dak Doritang /닭도리팅

Saw this dish prepared in Running Man episode 184 and wanted to try coooking myself. Hehe I wanted to finish using up the Korean Gochujang I have in the fridge from making Budae Jjiage.

The recipes I saw online didn't really state how much water to add and don't seems to be soupy form the pictures but the version I saw on Running man was made like a soup dish. So I decided to tweak the version a bit and cooked a soupy version.

Don't know whether I am doing Korean cuisine an injustice or not by changing the recipe here and there to suit my taste buds. Hur Hur

Here's my version 

Ingredients:

500g of chicken cut into parts (brought off shelf from NUTC and cut into smaller pieces)
3 potato peeled and cut into big pieces
1 carrot peeled and cut into big pieces
5 cloves of garlic
5 thick slices of ginger
2 tbsp of Korean Gochujang
2 tbsp of Gochugaru
2 tbsp of rice wine
4 tbsp of light soy sauce
1tbsp of sesame oil

I initially tried to cook this in my slow cooker, but true to its name the whole soup doesn't boil even after 2 hours despite using hot water. Thus I transferred them to my trusty ceramic pot and cooked over stove for an hour. The chicken, potatoes and carrot were cooked nicely despite cooking for an hour only.

Cooking Method:

I mixed the gochujang, gochuharu, rice wine, soy sauce to create a paste and then mixed it well with the chicken, potaoes and carrots in a pot.

After which, I added in 1.5 litre of water/ After boiling, I lower the heat and allow it to simmer for 45min and sieve away the excess oil in between.

Just before serving, I turn the heat up again to allow it to boil and add in the sesame oil.


Verdict:

The end product is a bit oily in my opinion. Not sure whether its fromt he gochujang or the chicken but I did sieve off the excess oil while cooking.

But the soup tastes surprisingly good especially since I cooked with the chicken bones still attached. Was initially worried that the chicken and potatoes will not be well cooked since I only transferred to the stove and cooked for an hour only. But my worries were unfounded and the chicken was tender when served.

Mr Love did not like this dish though but he did drink quite a bit of the soup. But he will have to bear with me cooking Korean dishes till we get to go to Korea at the end of the year. Haha

My version of Dak Doritang