Dinner · 15 min · Amounts not specified
Kimchi butter noodles
Pasta stands in. Kimchi is the sauce.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 15 min
easyWhy tonight. Pasta stands in. Kimchi is the sauce.
What it needs
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- pasta
- kimchi
- butter
- scallion
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: sesame oil.
Method
- Chop the kimchi and fry it in butter until it darkens and loses its raw edge. Two or three minutes changes it completely.
- Butter and kimchi is not a traditional pairing and it works because the fat rounds off the acid.
- A splash of the kimchi brine from the jar into the pan. That liquid is seasoned, sour and free.
- Noodles in with a splash of their water, tossed hard, scallion and sesame oil off the heat.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
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Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- Pasta and its waterUsing starchy cooking water to bind fat and cheese into a sauce that coats, instead of a sauce that pools.watery · clumped cheese · scrambled egg · dry and claggy
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- pasta
- The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around.
- kimchi
- Sour, spicy and funky, and older is better for cooking.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
- scallion
- Two ingredients on one stalk.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares kimchi, butter, scallion
Kimchi butter corn
Frozen corn is fine. Kimchi chopped.
Shares scallion, butter
Cottage cheese scramble
Cottage cheese into the raw eggs looks wrong and cooks into the softest scramble you will make without cream.
Shares butter, scallion
Miso butter eggs
Miso off the heat so it stays round.
Shares scallion, butter
Scallion eggs
Gentle heat. Scallion in the butter first so the eggs taste like allium, not just yellow.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
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