Korean seasonings, Yangyeom
Seasonings draw out the unique flavors of a dish’s ingredients, and various seasonings are used to create unique flavor combinations. Seasonings primarily consist of condiments and spices. Condiments are ingredients that contain salty, sweet, sour, spicy and bitter flavors. Spices lend their own scent to a dish, and spicy, bitter and crispy pastes can remove certain odors or enhance an ingredient’s original flavor. Doenjang (soybean paste) Doenjang and Ganjang are traditional Korean sauces that are made by fermenting soybeans. Their ingredients are rather simple: soybean, water and salt. Soybeans, harvested in November and December, are boiled in water, pounded and...