How to Prepare Delicious Seaweed Soup with Beef (Myeok Guk)

Seaweed Soup with Beef (Myeok Guk). Learn how to make Korean seaweed soup. This delicious soup is also known as Korean birthday soup. It's easy to make and tastes healthy and nourishing!

Today on Kwon's Corner I made Korean birthday soup for my girlfriend. Koreans eat miyeokguk every year on their birthday, because it's the soup that new. Miyeok gukis made with dried miyeok (aka wakame), which is a sea vegetable (edible seaweed). You can have Seaweed Soup with Beef (Myeok Guk) using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Seaweed Soup with Beef (Myeok Guk)

1. It's 25 gr of Dried Seaweed.
2. Prepare 2,4 liter of water (depends on how you like the soup brooth).
3. It's 5 tbs of fish sauce.
4. Prepare 200 gr of Beef.
5. Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, chopped.
6. Prepare of Sesame oil.
7. You need of Salt and pepper.

As I explained in my miyeok guk with mussels post, this staple soup also is the soup that new moms eat for the first few weeks after giving birth because of the nutrients contained in miyeok that help with. Today I am going to make Korean beef seaweed soup. Korean people have this on birthday and after giving a birth. It's nutritious and easy to make.

Seaweed Soup with Beef (Myeok Guk) step by step

1. Soak the seaweed in the water and wait for 30 min till the seaweed grows, then rinse and cut into small pieces.
2. Put the seaweed to saucepan, add water and cook with medium heat for about 20 mins. Add the water if the soup broth is too thick.
3. Cut the beef into small pieces, and put the beef with minced garlic to soup broth and cook with medium heat for about 20-25 mins. Turn off the heat then.
4. Add the fish sauce, sesame oil and salt to the soup, stir and the soup is ready to serve. Eat while its hot. Better to eat with rice.

Today I am using blended garlic at home, which is reserved in the freezer. Beef brisket and shank are fine with this soup. Korean Seaweed Soup (known as Miyeok guk) is also known as the Korean Birthday Soup. In Korea, we eat this Korean Seaweed Soup on our birthdays. Simple, delicious and part of Korean culture!