Specialty Dishes · Season 4 · Season of Spring IV

Dureup-sukhoe

Dureup-sukhoe (Blanched Angelica Shoots) · 두릅숙회

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 20 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

Dureup sukhoe prepares and cooks edible shoots before serving them with a dipping sauce. The thick base and tender tip need to be considered separately during preparation.

Distinguish it from dried greens that need soaking and boiling. Follow the purchased shoots’ preparation and heating instructions, and use a little sauce to compare stem and leaf texture.

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Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Angelica tree shoots (dureup)	300g	Ground dureup, asparagus (different character)
Salt	1 tbsp	For blanching
Vinegared gochujang	1 saucer	Gochujang, vinegar, plum syrup 2:1:1
Sesame seeds	A little	Can skip

Step by step

1.Trim the base
Peel the tough base, scrape off thorns, and cross-score the stem end.
2.Blanch in salted water
Lower into boiling salted water base-first for 30 seconds to a minute.
3.Shock in ice water
Plunge straight into ice water, then squeeze gently.
4.Arrange the shoots
Lay the shoots on a plate, tips aligned one way.
5.Serve with chojang
Serve with sesame-topped vinegared gochujang.

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Yongmunsan Wild Greens Festival

Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi

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Gyeongdong Market

Dongdaemun, Seoul

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The fictional face of this dish

Wood element · a slender, elongated face

You prepare all year to stand at the season's highest seat for one short stretch. A face like dureup, the crowned king of mountain greens.

Upright: The tree pours a year's stored strength into its first bud. The first shoot of what you have long prepared is rising now. Just blanch it: one dish of vinegared gochujang is seasoning enough.

Reversed: Mountain law says: take the first bud, leave the second for the tree. Snap off a third and a fourth, and next spring there is no bud at all. Do not strip your body or your bonds that way either.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

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

Those brows stretch upward like tree shoots: the face of rising momentum. Why is dureup called the king of mountain greens? Because the energy a tree gathers all winter surges into the single first bud at the branch tip. Your momentum works the same way. Stop spreading thin in all directions and pour it into one branch tip. Only the all-in shoot gets called king, child.

Those full eyelids hold a spring-sun sort of luck. But what sets a dureup's price is not thickness, it is timing. Finger-length buds sell like gold; spread to palm-size, they cannot even fetch greens money. Your talent's price is set by when you serve it too. Do not let the season pass on the excuse of waiting until fully ripe. Dureup's prime is its youth.

There is a pleasant bitterness in your speech. Like dureup's edge, your words start faintly bitter and sweeten with chewing. But remember: dureup eaten raw carries a trace of poison, so it is always blanched. Give your sharp words their thirty seconds in boiling water too. Blanched, they are a delicacy; raw, they upset stomachs.

Dureup is the bud of a tree that spends four seasons preparing for ten days of spring. Do not grow anxious that your preparation runs long. In the ten days your bud rises, you take the highest seat at the table.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Blanched dureup with a bowl of makgeolli is the drinking table spring mountains set themselves, while beside ham-greased budae-jjigae, the young shoot's bitter fragrance gets trampled flat.