๐ŸฅขEasy Korean Boiled Pork Belly (Suyuk) & Fresh Lettuce Kimchi Recipe|์ˆ˜์œก๊ณผ ์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜

Korean Boiled Pork Belly (Suyuk) & Lettuce Kimchi

When the weather gets chilly or your body feels tired, a warm and nourishing dish like Suyuk (boiled pork belly) is one of the best Korean comfort foods.
์ถ”์šด ๋‚ ์”จ๋‚˜ ๋ชธ์ด ํ”ผ๋กœํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ด๋ฐฑํ•œ ์ˆ˜์œก์€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ณด์–‘์‹์ด์—์š”.
Itโ€™s simple, soft, and full of flavor โ€” perfect for recovering energy and sharing with family.
๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์˜์–‘์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ์Œ์‹์ด์ฃ .
Pair it with fresh, slightly spicy Lettuce Kimchi (Sangchu Kimchi) to cut through the richness of the pork.
์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์•„์‚ญํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์ฝคํ•œ ์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋“ค์ด๋ฉด ๋А๋ผํ•จ ์—†์ด ์ƒํผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
While the pork simmers for about an hour, you can make the lettuce kimchi โ€” a perfect way to finish both dishes together for one warm, hearty Korean meal.
์ˆ˜์œก์„ ์‚ถ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋„ ์ ˆ์•ฝ๋˜๊ณ  ํ•œ ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์™„์„ฑ๋ผ์š”.


๐Ÿฅฉ How to Choose Pork for Bossam (U.S. Guide) / ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณด์Œˆ์šฉ ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฒ•

In the U.S., Bossam is best made with pork belly or pork shoulder (Boston butt) โ€” both available at Costco, H-Mart, or Walmart.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” pork belly(์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด) ๋˜๋Š” pork shoulder (Boston butt, ์•ž๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์‚ด) ๋กœ ๋ณด์Œˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ์ข‹์•„์š”.

  • Pork Belly โ†’ Look for skinless slab cuts with balanced fat and meat.
    Skinless slab ํ˜•ํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์œก์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ ๋‹นํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ์‚ด์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ž์—ฌ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ต์–ด์š”.
  • Pork Shoulder (Boston Butt) โ†’ Leaner and less fatty for a lighter version.
    ๋‹ด๋ฐฑํ•œ ๋ง›์„ ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ด ์ ์€ Boston butt์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • Choose meat with light pink color and even marbling.
    ์„ ํ™๋น›์ด ๋Œ๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ธต์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„ํฌ๋œ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์„ ํ•ด์š”.
  • Avoid packages with too much liquid or gray color.
    ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ƒ‰์ด ํƒํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ”ผํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

๐Ÿ’ก Tip: At Costco or Walmart, pork belly often comes in large slabs. Ask the butcher to cut it into 2โ€“3 smaller pieces for easier cooking.
๐Ÿ’ก ํŒ: ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ”๋‚˜ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฐ ํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋‹ˆ, ์ •์œก ์ฝ”๋„ˆ์—์„œ 2~3์กฐ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด ์‚ถ๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•ด์š”.


๐Ÿท Pork Belly Suyuk (์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด ์ˆ˜์œก)

๐Ÿง‚ Ingredients / ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

  • 1 lb pork belly / ์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด 500g
  • 1 tablespoon soybean paste / ๋œ์žฅ 1์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ
  • 5 garlic cloves / ๋งˆ๋Š˜ 5~6์ชฝ
  • 1 slice ginger / ์ƒ๊ฐ• 1์กฐ๊ฐ
  • ยฝ onion / ์–‘ํŒŒ ยฝ๊ฐœ
  • 1 teaspoon salt / ์†Œ๊ธˆ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„

๐Ÿ”ฅ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ์ˆœ์„œ

  1. Fill a pot with enough water to cover the pork belly.
    ๋ƒ„๋น„์— ์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด์ด ์ž ๊ธธ ๋งŒํผ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ถ“์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. Add soybean paste, garlic, ginger, onion, and salt, then bring to a boil.
    ๋œ์žฅ, ๋งˆ๋Š˜, ์ƒ๊ฐ•, ์–‘ํŒŒ, ์†Œ๊ธˆ์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. Add pork belly and simmer on medium-low heat for about 1 hour.
    ์‚ผ๊ฒน์‚ด์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์ค‘์•ฝ๋ถˆ๋กœ ์•ฝ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์‚ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  4. When tender, slice thinly and serve warm.
    ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ต์œผ๋ฉด ์–‡๊ฒŒ ์ฐ์–ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿฅฌ Fresh Lettuce Kimchi (์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜)

๐Ÿง‚ Ingredients / ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

  • About 10 lettuce leaves 100g (romaine or green leaf) / ์ƒ์ถ” 10์žฅ (๋Œ€๋žต 100g)
  • 2 tablespoons Korean chili flakes / ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ 2์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce / ์ง„๊ฐ„์žฅ 2์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil / ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ 1์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ
  • 1ยฝ tablespoons sugar / ์„คํƒ• 1์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ ๋ฐ˜
  • 81 tablespoon minced garlic / ๋‹ค์ง„ ๋งˆ๋Š˜ 1์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ
  • 1 tablespoon sesame seeds / ํ†ต๊นจ 1์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ

๐Ÿ”ฅ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ์ˆœ์„œ

  1. Rinse lettuce and drain well.
    ์ƒ์ถ”๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋—์ด ์”ป๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์š”.
  2. In a large bowl, mix chili flakes, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic, and sesame seeds.
    ํฐ ๋ณผ์— ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ, ์ง„๊ฐ„์žฅ, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„, ์„คํƒ•, ๋งˆ๋Š˜, ํ†ต๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์„ž์–ด์š”.
  3. Add lettuce and toss gently until evenly coated.
    ์ƒ์ถ”๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์–‘๋…์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฌป๋„๋ก ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๋ฒ„๋ฌด๋ ค์š”.
  4. Serve immediately for a crisp, refreshing taste.
    ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ์•„์‚ญํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์„ ํ•ด์š”.

๐Ÿฝ Cooking Tip / ์š”๋ฆฌ ํŒ

  • While simmering the pork belly for about an hour, itโ€™s the perfect time to prepare the lettuce kimchi.
    ์ˆ˜์œก์„ ์‚ถ๋Š” ์•ฝ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
    ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ต์„ ๋•Œ์ฏค ๊น€์น˜๋„ ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ๋”ฐ๋ˆํ•œ ์ˆ˜์œก๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • If the lettuce leaves are too large, you can cut them into bite-sized pieces before making it.
    ์ƒ์ถ” ์žŽ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํฌ๋ฉด, ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ž˜๋ผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿฝ Serving Idea / ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ

  • Slice the suyuk and serve with lettuce kimchi on the side.
    ์ˆ˜์œก์„ ์ฐ์–ด ์ƒ์ถ”๊น€์น˜์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ํ•œ์ƒ์ด์—์š”.
  • Add ssamjang, garlic, and green chili for authentic Korean flavor.
    ์Œˆ์žฅ, ๋งˆ๋Š˜, ๊ณ ์ถ”๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋“ค์ด๋ฉด ์ง„์งœ ํ•œ์‹ ๋ง›์ด ๋‚˜์š”.
  • Perfect for cold days or when you need a nourishing meal.
    ์ถ”์šด ๋‚ ์”จ๋‚˜ ๋ชธ๋ณด์‹ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋”ฑ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ ๋ผ์˜ˆ์š”.

๐Ÿงพ Origin of Bossam / ๋ณด์Œˆ์˜ ์œ ๋ž˜

The word Bossam (๋ณด์Œˆ) comes from the Korean term meaning โ€œto wrap.โ€
โ€˜๋ณด์Œˆโ€™์€ โ€˜์‹ธ์„œ ๋จน๋Š”๋‹คโ€™๋Š” ๋œป์˜ โ€˜์Œˆโ€™๊ณผ โ€˜์‹ธ๋‹ค(ๅŒ…)โ€™์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”.
It began during the Joseon Dynasty, when families wrapped freshly made kimchi with warm boiled pork after kimjang (the annual kimchi-making season).
์กฐ์„ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ๊น€์žฅ์ฒ ์— ๊น€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ทผ ๋’ค, ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‚ถ์€ ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊น€์น˜์— ์‹ธ ๋จน๋˜ ํ’์Šต์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
Over time, it became a symbol of sharing, warmth, and community gatherings.
์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์ด์›ƒ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์Œ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์•˜์–ด์š”.


Try making this at home โ€” itโ€™s simpler than it looks, yet filled with care and warmth in every bite.
Perfect for sharing with family or as a cozy weekend meal.

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Iโ€™ll keep sharing more delicious and easy Korean recipes for you!

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