Spicy Korean Sea Snail Salad - Korean Anju

Ingredients

• Sea whelks (golbaengi - 1 can)
• Onion - 1/2 a whole
• Carrot - 1 whole (length of your hand)
• Cucumber - 1 whole (forearm-length)
• Perilla leaves - 12 leaves
• Spring onion - 1 stalk (forearm-length)
• Purple cabbage - 1 (4 leaves, palm-sized)
• Gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste - 1/4 cup)
• Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Vinegar - 1/4 cup
• Minced garlic - 1 Tablespoon
• Sea whelk juice - 2 Tablespoon (optional)
• Gochugaru (Korean red chili pepper flakes - 1 Tablespoon)
• Somyeon (Thin wheat flour noodles - 2 quarter-sized bundles)
• Soy sauce - 1 Tablespoon
• Sesame oil - 1 Tablespoon
• Sesame seeds - 1 Tablespoon

Instructions

1. 1

   --- Prep Ingredients ---

2. 2

   Open can and empty out sea whelks. Save some of the juice for the dressing sauce. Dice each sea whelk into smaller bite-sized pieces.

3. 3

   Cut onion, spring onion and red cabbage into thin slices. Cut cucumber and carrot into thin half-circle pieces. Take stems off of the perilla leaves. Then roll them and cut into thin slices.

4. 4

   --- Make Gochujang Sauce ---

5. 5

   Take out a mixing bowl. Place-in gochujang, vinegar and sugar and mix it thoroughly.

6. 6

   Put in minced garlic. Also put in some sea whelk juice (optional)

7. 7

   --- Make Noodles ---

8. 8

   Bring a pot of water up to boil. Place noodles in. Wait until the pot starts to foam-up to the surface. Then pour a little bit of cold water into the pot to make the foam settle down. Repeat this process 3x. After the 3rd time, check to see that noodles are fully cooked. Then pour-out noodles into the sink. Wash noodles under cold water. Then set aside in a strainer and drain-off excess water.

9. 9

   Place noodles into a mixing bowl. Place-in soy sauce, sesame oil and sesame seeds in the noodles. Give it a thorough mix.

10. 10

    --- Make Salad and Plate ---

11. 11

    Take out another mixing bowl. Put in all of the chopped vegetables and sea whelks.

12. 12

    Pour-in 3/4 of the gochujang sauce into the bowl (add more if you like). Then coat everything thoroughly with your hand.

13. 13

    Then put in some gochugaru. Give a final stir.

14. 14

    Put a handful of the salad onto a plate. Twirl noodles around and place them in bundles around the plate. Enjoy!