Army Base Stew (Budae Jjigae)

Army Base Stew (Budae Jjigae) is one of the most popular Korean hot pot stews that incorporates American processed meats such as hot dogs, spam or bacon with Korean ingredients.

This dish is very easy to make with any processed meats you have on hand and kimchi as the base. Then you you can add any optional ingredients such as vegetables, tofu, ramen noodles or any noodles, rice cakes, American sliced cheese, etc.

This dish was created after the Korean war when American army had meats such as hot dogs, spam, ham and baked beans on their base. Koreans started making stews by incorporating foods from Army bases with Korean ingredients and named it Army Base Stew.

Recipe:

[karinlarsson]

I see Korean War stew or soup or whatever as something you make whit the stuff you randomly find. I made it that way and I must say that it’s quite good

[laddestudios]

Finally a traditional korean stew recipe without cheese