I heard about vegetables wrapped with pickled radish while I was surfing the internet a couple of months ago. It was the first time I heard of that food. I don’t know about the history of that food, but someone named this meal “Naeng gujeolpan”. Naeng means cold in Korean and Gujeolpan is a Korean traditional meal – Korean New years day food.

However its more popular name is “Mussammari” which means vegetables wrapped with pickled radish.
It seemed to be really popular as a house warming day food. Although I didn’t have a house warming party or anything like that, I wanted to try some by myself too. Because most Koreans seemed to love this meal and tasted it at least once in their life time, but I hadn’t.

As you can see, by the picture below, it looks very pretty, but also takes some effort. I think it can be a really good appetizer.

Ingredients (It was enough for 3 people)

• Thin sliced radish pickle 1 pack
• 1/3 a capsicum (I used yellow one)
• 1/4 a medium size carrot
• 2 crab sticks
• 1/5 block of ham from 160g
• Radish sprouts
• 2 shiitake mushrooms
• Garlic chives or drop wort for string

For dipping sauce (Mix them together in a bowl.)

• Mustard 1/2 tsp
• Vinegar 1/2 tsp
• Sugar 1/2 tsp
• Water 1/2 tsp

Preparation

-Thin slice all the ingredients except the radish.

Cooking

1. Boil some water in a pot.
2. Add some salt.
3. When the water starts to boil, parboil the garlic chives.
4. Pan fry these separately – capsicum, carrot, mushrooms, and ham, in a frying pan without oil.

Making the Wraps

1. Place the radish on your left hand.
2. Put a little bit of each of the vegetables, ham and crab, onto the radish.
3. Fold it. Tie it with the garlic chive. Repeat until you use up the ingredients.
4. Serve them on a plate with dipping sauce.

The dipping sauce is made with mustard, so it can be spicy like some sushi. But I really love it. Anyhow you need to be a bit careful not to dip the rolls into the dipping sauce too much.

By the way, I had Dakgalbi as a main dish. It was really good, as if I had it in a restaurant.
You can get the Dakgalbi recipe from my blog as well if you want.

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