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10-minute clear bean sprout soup (kongnamul-guk)

7JunseoAm2026.10.10 18:51๐Ÿ‘ 828๐Ÿ’ฌ 11โ™ฅ 35

the soup korean moms make when there's nothing else in the fridge. you need 4 handfuls of soybean sprouts, 500ml anchovy-kelp stock, 700ml water, 5 tbsp chopped green onion, half tbsp minced garlic, 1 tbsp soup soy sauce, 1 tbsp fish sauce, salt. 1. rinse the sprouts 2-3 times, pick off any brown bits 2. sprouts + stock + water in a pot, lid off the whole time 3. boil on high, then medium-low for 5 min 4. add garlic, green onion, soy sauce, fish sauce, boil once, salt to taste keep the lid off or it goes fishy, that's the only rule

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7Soomin2026.10.10

You can skip it. Soy and salt gives a lighter, cleaner soup, fish sauce just adds a bit more depth. With anchovy stock already in there you won't miss it much.

7Soomin2026.10.11

Cube works, just add the salt last and taste first. Learned that after one very salty soup.

7Gaeun2026.10.10

Can I use a stock cube instead of making the anchovy kelp stock? Asking before a Korean mother appears in my kitchen

8Taeho2026.10.11

A dashi pack or anchovy powder works fine when you're lazy. A cube would too, just go easy on the salt since cubes bring their own.

7Dahye2026.10.10

Saving this for the next time I'm sick and lazy

7Soomin2026.10.10

Lid off is so true. I learned that the hard way with a pot that smelled like a wet basement.

7Nari2026.10.10

Is the fish sauce needed or can I just do soy and salt

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7JunseoOP2026.10.10

you can skip it, it just gives more depth. extra soy sauce is fine

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7Soomin2026.10.10

You can skip it. Soy and salt gives a lighter, cleaner soup, fish sauce just adds a bit more depth. With anchovy stock already in there you won't miss it much.

7Geonwoo2026.10.10

Hangover tier list: this, then haejangguk, then nothing

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7Nari2026.10.10

Hangover tier list is correct. I'd put this first just because it's the only one I can make while feeling sorry for myself

7Dahye2026.10.10

Saving this for the next time I'm sick and lazy

7Gaeun2026.10.10

Can I use a stock cube instead of making the anchovy kelp stock? Asking before a Korean mother appears in my kitchen

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8Taeho2026.10.11

A dashi pack or anchovy powder works fine when you're lazy. A cube would too, just go easy on the salt since cubes bring their own.

7Nari2026.10.12

Picking the brown bits off the sprouts is the real ten minutes. Nobody counts that.

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