Samyetang And Choouhtang For Hot Summer Days

With a Lunar Calendar there are three hot days during summer

. They are Chobok, Joongbok, and Malbok which represent the first hot day, middle hot day and final hot day. This year, they were July 19, July 29, and August 8. People in Korea eat precious food such as Samgyetang (chicken stew) and Choouhtang (mudfish) to energize the body which is weakened by the hot weather.

Samgyetang is chicken stew which contains ginseng. Other medicinal herbs like wolfberry and angelica sinensis could be used. The young chicken, which can serve one person, can be used for Samgyetang. Like a turkey meal on Thanksgiving Day, all of the ingredients has to be stubbed in the chicken's cavity and you must close the flaps over the cavity (use the skewer or sew with thread). Afterwards, place it in a pot, almost half filled with water, and cook it for many hours. It is served with salt and pepper. Hot red chili pepper paste can be added to enrich its flavors and taste to one's preference. Samgyetang is a representative food in Korea during the summer.

Choouhtang is also one of the Korean traditional health foods for the summer time with rich flavors. The rich soup stock boiled with grinded mudfish (sometimes whole mudfish can be used) and tofu, dried Chinese cabbage, beef and mungbean sprouts will provide sensational tastes and flavors. Mudfish has high protein content and excellent amino acids composition. Also, it is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin D, iron and calcium. Slippery mucus increases protein absorption and production. Because Choouhtang uses the whole of mudfish including its inner organs and bones, it is a healthy food for growing children and middle-aged women who are concerned with osteoporosis due to the low amount of calcium. It is served with minced red peppers, whole green pepper and Chinese pepper powder.

Why do Koreans order a warm dish like Samgyetang or Choouhtang during the summer? When people sweat, internal body temperature goes down a lot and this makes harmful effects to the stomach and liver. Koreans say that people eat the hot dish to stop that and also to improve one's appetite in the hot weather.

John J. Lee is a freelance writer and developer for a Korean restaurant finder.

by: Steven Cassani.

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