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.
์ถ์ด ๋ ์จ๋ ๋ชธ์ด ํผ๋กํ ๋, ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ณ ๋ด๋ฐฑํ ์์ก์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋ณด์์์ด์์.
Itโs simple, soft, and full of flavor โ perfect for recovering energy and sharing with family.
๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋จํ๋ฉด์๋ ์์์ด ํ๋ถํด ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํจ๊ป ๋๋๊ธฐ ์ข์ ์์์ด์ฃ .
Pair it with fresh, slightly spicy Lettuce Kimchi (Sangchu Kimchi) to cut through the richness of the pork.
์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์์ญํ๊ณ ๋งค์ฝคํ ์์ถ๊น์น๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋ค์ด๋ฉด ๋๋ผํจ ์์ด ์ํผํ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์ด์.
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.
์์ก์ ์ถ๋ ๋์ ์์ถ๊น์น๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด ์๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฝ๋๊ณ ํ ๋ผ๊ฐ ์์ฑ๋ผ์.
๐ฅฉ How to Choose Pork for Bossam (U.S. Guide) / ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ณด์์ฉ ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ ๋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.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ pork belly(์ผ๊ฒน์ด) ๋๋ pork shoulder (Boston butt, ์๋ค๋ฆฌ์ด) ๋ก ๋ณด์์ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด ์ข์์.
- Pork Belly โ Look for skinless slab cuts with balanced fat and meat.
Skinless slab ํํ๊ฐ ์์ก์ฉ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋นํ๊ณ , ์ง๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ์ด์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์์ฌ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ต์ด์. - Pork Shoulder (Boston Butt) โ Leaner and less fatty for a lighter version.
๋ด๋ฐฑํ ๋ง์ ์ํ๋ฉด ์ง๋ฐฉ์ด ์ ์ Boston butt์ ์ ํํ์ธ์. - Choose meat with light pink color and even marbling.
์ ํ๋น์ด ๋๊ณ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ธต์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถํฌ๋ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ ์ ํด์. - Avoid packages with too much liquid or gray color.
๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๊ฑฐ๋ ์์ด ํํ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ํผํ์ธ์.
๐ก Tip: At Costco or Walmart, pork belly often comes in large slabs. Ask the butcher to cut it into 2โ3 smaller pieces for easier cooking.
๐ก ํ: ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ ์๋งํธ์์๋ ํฐ ํต์ผ๋ก ํ๋งค๋๋, ์ ์ก ์ฝ๋์์ 2~3์กฐ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ถ๊ธฐ ํธํด์.
๐ท Pork Belly Suyuk (์ผ๊ฒน์ด ์์ก)
๐ง Ingredients / ์ฌ๋ฃ

- 1 lb pork belly / ์ผ๊ฒน์ด 500g
- 1 tablespoon soybean paste / ๋์ฅ 1์๊ฐ๋ฝ
- 5 garlic cloves / ๋ง๋ 5~6์ชฝ
- 1 slice ginger / ์๊ฐ 1์กฐ๊ฐ
- ยฝ onion / ์ํ ยฝ๊ฐ
- 1 teaspoon salt / ์๊ธ ์ฝ๊ฐ
๐ฅ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ์์

- Fill a pot with enough water to cover the pork belly.
๋๋น์ ์ผ๊ฒน์ด์ด ์ ๊ธธ ๋งํผ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ถ์ต๋๋ค. - Add soybean paste, garlic, ginger, onion, and salt, then bring to a boil.
๋์ฅ, ๋ง๋, ์๊ฐ, ์ํ, ์๊ธ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋์ ๋๋ค. - Add pork belly and simmer on medium-low heat for about 1 hour.
์ผ๊ฒน์ด์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ค์ฝ๋ถ๋ก ์ฝ 1์๊ฐ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. - When tender, slice thinly and serve warm.
๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ์ต์ผ๋ฉด ์๊ฒ ์ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋ปํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฅฌ Fresh Lettuce Kimchi (์์ถ๊น์น)
๐ง Ingredients / ์ฌ๋ฃ

- About 10 lettuce leaves 100g (romaine or green leaf) / ์์ถ 10์ฅ (๋๋ต 100g)
- 2 tablespoons Korean chili flakes / ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ 2์๊ฐ๋ฝ
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce / ์ง๊ฐ์ฅ 2์๊ฐ๋ฝ
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil / ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ 1์๊ฐ๋ฝ
- 1ยฝ tablespoons sugar / ์คํ 1์๊ฐ๋ฝ ๋ฐ
- 81 tablespoon minced garlic / ๋ค์ง ๋ง๋ 1์๊ฐ๋ฝ
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds / ํต๊นจ 1์๊ฐ๋ฝ
๐ฅ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ ์์

- Rinse lettuce and drain well.
์์ถ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋์ด ์ป๊ณ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์. - In a large bowl, mix chili flakes, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic, and sesame seeds.
ํฐ ๋ณผ์ ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ, ์ง๊ฐ์ฅ, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ, ์คํ, ๋ง๋, ํต๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์์ด์. - Add lettuce and toss gently until evenly coated.
์์ถ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์๋ ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฌป๋๋ก ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ ค์. - Serve immediately for a crisp, refreshing taste.
๋ฐ๋ก ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ์์ญํ๊ณ ์ ์ ํด์.
๐ฝ Cooking Tip / ์๋ฆฌ ํ
- While simmering the pork belly for about an hour, itโs the perfect time to prepare the lettuce kimchi.
์์ก์ ์ถ๋ ์ฝ 1์๊ฐ ๋์ ์์ถ๊น์น๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด ๋ฑ ์ข์์.
๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ต์ ๋์ฏค ๊น์น๋ ์์ฑ๋์ด ๋ฐ๋ํ ์์ก๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ์์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. - If the lettuce leaves are too large, you can cut them into bite-sized pieces before making it.
์์ถ ์์ด ๋๋ฌด ํฌ๋ฉด, ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ์ ์ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ข์ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ์๋ผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฝ Serving Idea / ํจ๊ป ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ
- Slice the suyuk and serve with lettuce kimchi on the side.
์์ก์ ์ฐ์ด ์์ถ๊น์น์ ํจ๊ป ๋ด๋ฉด ์๋ฒฝํ ํ์์ด์์. - Add ssamjang, garlic, and green chili for authentic Korean flavor.
์์ฅ, ๋ง๋, ๊ณ ์ถ๋ฅผ ๊ณ๋ค์ด๋ฉด ์ง์ง ํ์ ๋ง์ด ๋์. - Perfect for cold days or when you need a nourishing meal.
์ถ์ด ๋ ์จ๋ ๋ชธ๋ณด์ ์ด ํ์ํ ๋ ๋ฑ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ ๋ผ์์.
๐งพ Origin of Bossam / ๋ณด์์ ์ ๋

The word Bossam (๋ณด์) comes from the Korean term meaning โto wrap.โ
โ๋ณด์โ์ โ์ธ์ ๋จน๋๋คโ๋ ๋ป์ โ์โ๊ณผ โ์ธ๋ค(ๅ
)โ์์ ์ ๋ํ์ด์.
It began during the Joseon Dynasty, when families wrapped freshly made kimchi with warm boiled pork after kimjang (the annual kimchi-making season).
์กฐ์ ์๋ ๊น์ฅ์ฒ ์ ๊น์น๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ทผ ๋ค, ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ถ์ ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊น์น์ ์ธ ๋จน๋ ํ์ต์์ ์์๋์์ด์.
Over time, it became a symbol of sharing, warmth, and community gatherings.
์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ์ด์์ด ํจ๊ป ๋๋๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์์์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์์ด์.

Try making this at home โ itโs 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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