Soups & Stews · Season 22 · Season of Autumn VIII

Beoseot-jeongol

Beoseot-jeongol (Mushroom Hot Pot) · 버섯전골

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 40 min
Serves: 3 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This mushroom hot pot arranges mixed mushrooms, tofu and vegetables in kelp-and-shiitake stock, with thinly sliced beef listed as optional. The dish name alone does not establish the ingredients of every restaurant broth or seasoning.

For a plant-based version, check purchased stock and seasoning labels as well as the optional meat. Compare mushroom shapes and thicknesses while preparing them, and arrange the ingredients to suit the pot. A finishing portion of noodles or rice is an additional choice rather than prescribed etiquette.

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Ingredients (3 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Assorted mushrooms (shiitake, oyster, enoki, king oyster)	500g	Any three or more kinds available
Thin-sliced beef (optional)	200g	Tofu instead
Tofu, crown daisy, scallion	As needed	Water dropwort
Kelp and shiitake stock	6 cups	Bone broth
Soup soy, salt, garlic	To season	Anywhere
Kalguksu noodles (finish)	1 serving	Udon, or porridge

Step by step

1.Prep the mushrooms
Trim the bases and tear or slice large caps along the grain.
2.Draw the stock
Steep kelp and dried shiitake in cold water.
3.Arrange the pot
Fan the mushrooms by kind around the shallow pot with beef and tofu at center.
4.Simmer at the table
Pour in stock and simmer on a table burner, seasoning with soup soy and salt.
5.Crown daisy, then noodles
Lay on crown daisy just before eating; after the solids, finish with noodles in the broth.

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Places to check when planning a meal

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Songi Beoseot Maeul

13 Namdaecheon-ro, Yangyang-eup, Yangyang, Gangwon

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Yangyang Pine Mushroom Festival

Yangyang, Gangwon

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The fictional face of this dish

Earth element · a round, full face

Instead of shining alone, you draw out everyone's fragrance. A face like mushroom hot pot after an autumn rain.

Upright: Mushroom hot pot has no lead role: shiitake, oyster, and enoki steep each other's fragrance until a whole forest moves into the pot. Set down the lead-role ambition today and your board becomes a forest.

Reversed: Basket any mushroom on the mountain and you carry home an accident, not a remedy. Eat only what you can name: the first rule of mushrooms. The opportunities you have been gathering lately deserve the same field guide check.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

Those eyes are sheltered and calm as forest shade: eyes that let people rest. Mushrooms are children of the shade, sprouting where sun never lands and turning the forest's nutrients into fragrance. You are the one who makes the board's nutrients from backstage shadow, and yes, missing the spotlight stings some days. But remember, child: the true stars of the autumn forest are known first to the people who go picking mushrooms, not to those watching maple leaves.

Those earlobes are thick with listening luck: hot pot features. Jeongol is a dish where ingredients listen to one another, the shiitake's deep voice and the enoki's thin one finding harmony in a single broth. Your earlobes are that pot, steeping everyone's tone and settling it into one stock. Chair the meetings; that job fits the size of your pot.

That smile lingers subtle and long, like mushroom fragrance itself, which rises after the broth is swallowed rather than while chewing. Your charm is aftertaste-type, so first meetings always shortchange you. But merchants have a saying: the signboard brings the first customer, the aftertaste makes the regular. Yours is a regulars' trade. Do not rush it.

The mushroom raises the forest's fragrance even from a dead stump. However shaded and rotten the log where you stand, raising fragrance there is your gift. One autumn rain and your season arrives.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Forest-scented hot pot beside lotus leaf rice layers mountain and field on one table, while briny gwamegi seated by this subtle broth starts a war of fragrances in which both are wounded.