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List of Korean ingredients

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This is a list of ingredients found in Korean cuisine.

Meat

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Name
Local name
Image Region Usage Description
Beef Beef is the most prized of all meats by Koreans. Beef is prepared in numerous ways today including roasting or grilling (gui), boiling in soups.[1]
Chicken Chicken has played an important role as a protein and all parts of the chicken are used in Korean cuisine, including the gizzards, liver, and feet. Young chicken are braised in a medicinal soups eaten during the summer months to combat heat called samgyetang.[2]
Chitterlings
Deer meat
Dog meat
Duck meat
Egg (food)
Gizzard
Goat meat
Gopchang
Makchang
Pheasant
Pork
Quail
Tree sparrow
Wild Boar

Grains

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Name
Local name
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Barley
Buckwheat
Glutinous rice
Yulmu (Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen)
Millet
Rice
Sorghum
Wheat
Wheat gluten (food)

Fruits

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Name
Local name
Image Region Usage Description
Apricot
Corylus heterophylla var. thunbergii
Grape
Jujube
Korean cherry
Persimmon
Platycodon grandiflorus
Plum
Pomegranate
Prunus mume
Pyrus pyrifolia
Prunus tomentosa
Strawberry
Tomato
Water melon
Wolfberry

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pettid, 59-60.
  2. ^ Pettid, 62.
  • Pettid, Michael J., Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History, London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2008. ISBN 1-86189-348-5
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