{"id":8490,"date":"2017-02-15T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimchimari.com\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2022-04-10T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T19:25:43","slug":"fresh-kimchi-salad-with-spring-cabbage-bomdong-geotjeori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimchimari.com\/fresh-kimchi-salad-with-spring-cabbage-bomdong-geotjeori\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Kimchi Salad with Spring Cabbage (Bomdong Geotjeori)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kimchi Salad (Geotjeori) with Spring Cabbage (Bomdong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fresh Kimchi Salad with Spring Napa Cabbage is kimchi that you can make in minutes with no pickling and no need to wait for days for fermentation. Koreans call this type of fresh kimchi salad as Geotjeori (\uac89\uc808\uc774) which basically means pickling just the outside<\/em> (geot \uac89). In English, people call this Instant Kimchi, Fresh Kimchi, Kimchi Salad…I can’t decide what is the best name for it but what’s important is the fact that this is a Kimchi that can be made right before serving, just tossed with seasoning.<\/p>\n

OK, so what is Bomdong(\ubd04\ub3d9)<\/a> ? This spring cabbage is only available in the Spring = bom \ubd04 in Korea. There are different opinions as to whether this is a different variety of cabbage altogether or it is actually the same Korean napa cabbage that is used for Kimjang Kimchi and regular kimchi but is just grown differently.<\/p>\n

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Based on what I have read, the former seems to be true. Among Chinese or napa cabbage, there is a ‘heading cabbage’ (\uacb0\uad6c\ubc30\ucd94) type which produces the tightly packed and upright cabbage that we call napa cabbage<\/em>. The ‘semi-heading cabbage’ (\ubc18\uacb0\uad6c\ubc30\ucd94) type spreads out flatl and bomdong<\/strong> is this type. Bomdong cabbage is smaller, flatter, juicier, more tender, maybe a little thicker but slightly sweeter than regular napa cabbage. It basically looks like a baby napa cabbage that has been totally flattened out and looks like a flower almost.. I also think the leaves are curlier than a regular napa.<\/p>\n

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Bomdong – Korean Spring Cabbage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Korean Spring Semi-Heading Cabbage – Bomdong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This kind of cabbage was not available in Seoul when I was growing up but now they are available everywhere and I was very pleasantly surprised to find it in our local market in California!! If you can’t find it near where you live, you can just use the inner leaves of regular napa cabbage that is all white and it should work just fine.<\/p>\n

Fresh Cabbage Kimchi Salad with Bomdong (Spring Cabbage)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Servings: 3-4                         Cooking Time: 15                    Difficulty: EASY<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/p>\n