Hi r/koreafood,
I recently visited a black pork BBQ restaurant in Jeju, and alongside the usual salt and grilled meat they served a small metal cup of this thick, reddish-brown paste.
It wasn’t the sauce that was on the grill.
Does anyone know what this sauce is called and what its main ingredients are? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
by BoyfriendSharkDudu
16 Comments
Ssamjang?
The sauce is called ssamjang. maybe It’s usually made with red pepper paste, soybean paste, a little garlic, and sugar.
(Actually, I’ve only had the ones my mom made or from restaurants. I’ve never tried making it myself. 😊)
The recipe can vary depending on the person
probably spicy seasoned fermented raw fish paste.
Looks like ssamjang. You can buy it in green tubs from Korean grocery stores.
쌈장 (ssamjang)
Looks like 칼치속젓. Basically fermentee fish guts sauce
멜젓 (MEHL JUT)
Looks like ssamjang to me
Was it fishy? It looks more like 갈치속젓 than 쌈장 cause it’s missing the chunks of garlic
Ssamjang. I make it by mixing minced garlic, doenjang and gochujang.
Ssamjang. The best fuckin condiment ever made.
Like what everyone else said but I’ll also add in some sesame oil. .y grandma used to make all her own red pepper paste and she would buy extra thick untouched soybean paste and mix her own. She would actually stir fry pork into it. And it kept for months.
People saying ssamjang are wrong. It’s almost certainly 갈치속젓 or 멜젓, fermented fish paste. You can tell because it’s sort of streaky instead of chunky
I forgot about eating black pork in jeju somehow thank you for stoking my memory.
I just made it! I had the same question after eating Korean bbq. It is very simple, I didn’t have the soybean paste so I subbed red miso. I thought the flavor was very similar. I love it!
100% ssamjang (wrap sauce). Mix denjang (fermented soybean paste) and gochujang (fermented red pepper paste) to make it or just buy premixed. Goes great with red leaf lettuce or raw garlic slices with meat.