EPTMe and my wife got home today kinda late today, and were both pretty hungry, so I decided to whip up something fairly quick for dinner.
It's peach season in Toronto, and I just made a new batch of kimchi the other day. (It's not actually that hard to make, as you can see here, so I figured I'd try to make something that combined these.
The results were awesome.
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This is what you'll need (this served two with bread, you can scale up or down as you like):
- 3 peaches chopped smallish-like. (about a cup)
- About a cup of kimchi.
- 3 or 4 gloves of garlic.
- a chunk of ginger about the same size as the garlic you'll use.
- 3-5 tbsp vinegar
- 3-4 tbsp honey
- some sesame oil + Show Spoiler +
you can use a different oil as well if you want to experiment, I personally love how sesame oil complements kimchi
- some nice cheese. + Show Spoiler +
I used a nice 4 year old white cheddar for this, though I think any old, hard cheese will do. If I had beemster xo in the house, I would've used that and it'd have been awesome. My wife used brie, and loved it. I liked it less.
Preparation is pretty basic.
1) Let the ginger, garlic, and half of your kimchi sweat on medium-low heat for 5-10 minutes or so or until it starts to get dry (you don't want to burn it).
2) Add the vinegar, honey, rest of the kimchi, and peaches, (you can throw a tbsp of water in as well at this point if it's too dry, you want the end result to be thick, keep in mind though, peaches are really juicy!)
3) Cook on low (just so it barely boils) for another 5 minutes or until it thickens to the texture you like.
4) Serve (on bread, top with cheese)
We used a nice dark rye bread, very lightly toasted for this-- I think any dense bread would be fantastic.
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Fig. 2: juicy peachy kimchi goodness.... *slurp*
Enjoy! This killed my expectations and I'll definitely be making it again.
p.s. sorry for the colour on the photos, we're getting a new camera at some point, but we're using a crappy old one for now.
