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For the village in Iran, see Namul, Iran.
Namul
Korean name
Hangul
나물
Revised Romanizationnamul
McCune–Reischauernamul
IPA[na.mul]
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Namul (Korean: 나물) refers to either a variety of edible grass or leaves or seasoned herbal dishes made of them. Wild greens are called sannamul(산나물, "mountain namul"), and spring vegetables are called bomnamul(봄나물, "spring namul"). On the day of Daeboreum, the first full moon of the year, Koreans eat boreum namul(보름나물, "full moon namul") with five-grain rice. It is believed that boreum namuls eaten in winter help one stand up the heat in the upcoming summer.

Preparation and serving

A single person bapsang(meal table) with bap(cooked rice), guk(soup), kimchi, pyeonyuk(meat slices), and three namul banchans(spinach namul, brakenfern namul, and balloon flower root namul)

For namul as a dish, virtually any type of vegetable, herb, or green can be used, and the ingredient includes roots, leaves, stems, seeds, sprouts, petals, and fruits. Some seaweeds and mushrooms, and even animal products such as beef tendons are also made into namuls. Although in most cases the vegetables (and non-vegetable namul ingredients) are blanched before being seasoned, the method of preparation can also vary; they may be served fresh(raw), boiled, fried, sautéed, fermented, dried, or steamed. Namul can be seasoned with salt, vinegar, sesame oil and perilla oil, regular soy sauce and soup soy sauce, doenjang(soybean paste), gochujang, and many other spices and condiments.

Namul are typically served as banchan(side dish accompanying the staples, usually bap). It is possible to have more than one type of namul served as a banchan at a single meal. Each namul dish may named depending on the main ingredients and the methods of preparation. For example, a seasoned chamnamul dish is most likely called chamnamulmuchim(literally "seasoned chamnamul"), since the name of the vegetable already contains the word "namul" in it. A namul dish made of raw radish is called musaengchae("seasoned raw radish"), since it is usually the namul dish made with cooked radish that is called munamul("radish namul").

Main ingredients of namul

Vegetables

Seaweeds

Mushrooms

  • neutari(느타리, oyster mushroom)
  • paengi(팽이, enoki mushroom)
  • pyogo(표고, shiitake mushroom)
  • songi(송이, matsutake mushroom)
  • yangsongi(양송이, button mushroom)

Others

Gallery

See also

  • Sansai, Japanese category similar to san-namul (mountain namul)

References

External links

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