Potatoes with 3 Different Seasonings

Cicadas are singing all day under the sizzling sun. Potatoes are one of the season’s favorite snacks. Koreans enjoy the simple steamed or roasted potatoes with crunchy kimchi and a number of seasonings.

The combination of salt and potato is probably the most basic way of having the root vegetable in any country around the world.

But you may not have heard of potato with gochujang and sugar.

The potato and gochujang dipping originate in Gangwon province, northeast of South Korea. The region is well known for snow- no wonder one of its cities (Pyeongchang) is going to host the Winter Olympics in 2018- and potatoes. They eat lots of potatoes over there so you’ve got to trust them on this.

Sugar with potato may sound awfully unusual to some. It actually was widely popular to have the tuberous crop sweet until about late 1980s or so.     

Ingredients

Serves 1                                                                                                           

1 medium-sized cooked potato

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 pinch pepper

1 pinch gochugaru (red pepper flakes)

1/4 teaspoon gochujang (red pepper paste)

1/4 teaspoon sugar (brown or white sugar)

Directions

1. Mix salt, pepper and red pepper flakes in a bowl.

2. Put gochujang and sugar in separate sauce bowls.

3. Consume with potato.