Pork Bone Soup

Yummy! I love this soup. At first, I didn't want to try it, since I usually don't eat spicy foods but this is one exception. Absolutely delicious.

Ingredients:
2.5 lbs pork bones
1/2 small napa cabbage
1 medium onion
2 tbsp ginger
2 tbsp soy bean paste
4 dried shiitake mushroom
1 whole garlic
2 tbsp hot pepper flakes
1 tbsp hot pepper paste
3 tbsp cooking wine
3 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp perilla seeds
2 stalks green onion
1 package soy bean sprouts
3 potatoes

Directions:

1. Soak pork bones in cold water for 2 hours. Blanch pork bones with 1 tbsp ginger. Drain and rinse. 
2. Add blanched pork bones, sliced onion, 1 tbsp ginger, soy bean paste, and shiitake mushrooms to 10 cups of water. Boil for 1.5 hours over medium high heat.
3. Blend garlic, cooking wine, and fish sauce to blender. Mix with hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, and perilla seeds. Set aside.
4. Blanch napa cabbage, drain well. Cut green onion. Rinse and drain soy bean sprouts. Peel potatoes. 
5. After 1.5 hours, remove shiitake mushrooms. Slice mushrooms and return to pot.
6. Add vegetables and paste. Cook for an additional 30 minutes.

This recipe was found on Maangchi, check it out for more great Korean recipes.