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Namul

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Namul is a general term for a Korean seasoned vegetable dish. The name of the dish may vary slightly depending on what vegetables are used and how they are prepared, but they will nonetheless still be a type of namul.

Virtually any type of vegetable, herb, or green can be used, and the dish include roots, leaves, stems, seeds, sprouts, petals, and fruits. They can be prepared as a single type of namul, or they can be mixed.

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Namul is a general term for a Korean seasoned vegetable dish. The name of the dish may vary slightly depending on what vegetables are used and how they are prepared, but they will nonetheless still be a type of namul.

Virtually any type of vegetable, herb, or green can be used, and the dish include roots, leaves, stems, seeds, sprouts, petals, and fruits. They can be prepared as a single type of namul, or they can be mixed. The method of preparation can also vary; they may be served fresh (raw), or boiled, fried, sauteed, fermented, dried, or steamed. Seasonings can also vary. Namul can be seasoned with salt, vinegar, sesame oil

Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as a cooking oil in South India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in Chinese, Korean, and to a lesser extent Southeast Asian cuisine.-Composition:Sesame oil is composed of the following fatty acids:Sesame oil...

, and even gochujang
Gochujang
Gochujang is a savory and pungent fermented Korean condiment. Traditionally, it has been naturally fermented over years in large earthen pots outdoors, more often on an elevated stone platform, called jangdokdae in the backyard.-History:...

(Korean red pepper paste). Namul are typically served as banchan
Banchan
Banchan refers to small dishes of food served along with cooked rice in Korean cuisine. This word is used both in the singular and plural. The most famous banchan is kimchi....

(a side dish accompanying the main course). It is possible to have more than one type of namul served as a banchan at a single meal.

A few examples of namul include chwinamul
Chwinamul
Chwinamul is a Korean leaf vegetable. It consists of the leaves of various species of wild flowering plant, including Aster scaber....

(wild leafy plants), hobaknamul (made from hobak, a Korean squash with green skin and orange flesh), shigeumchi (spinach), and kongnamul
Kongnamul
Kongnamul, an example of Korean cuisine, refers to a seasoned banchan made from soybean sprouts as well as being a term for the sprouts themselves in the Korean language. It is one of the most common banchan, as well as a basic ingredient of bibimbap.After roots and the bean skin are removed, the...

(soybean sprouts).

Varieties

Name	Korean name	Description
Kongnamul Kongnamul Kongnamul, an example of Korean cuisine, refers to a seasoned banchan made from soybean sprouts as well as being a term for the sprouts themselves in the Korean language. It is one of the most common banchan, as well as a basic ingredient of bibimbap.After roots and the bean skin are removed, the...	콩나물	Cold boiled bean sprouts with sesame oil.
Sigeumchi namul	시금치나물	Lightly parboiled spinach dressed with sesame oil, garlic, and soy sauce
Miyeok muchim	미역무침	Miyeok (wakame Wakame , Undaria pinnatifida, is a sea vegetable, or edible seaweed, that has been nominated as among 100 of the world's worst invasive species according to the Global Invasive Species Database. In Japan it is most widely used in miso soup.-History in the West:... , a seaweed) with sweet vinegar and salt.
Musaengchae/Muchae	무생채/무채	"Noodles" of white radish in a sweet vinegar sauce, sometimes with ground dried chili peppers.
Gosari namul	고사리나물	Prepared fern Fern A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as Polypodiophyta, or Polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta... shoots that have been stir-fried
Chwinamul Chwinamul Chwinamul is a Korean leaf vegetable. It consists of the leaves of various species of wild flowering plant, including Aster scaber....	취나물	Stir-fried and seasoned Aster Scaber
Bireum namul	비름나물	Parboiled and seasoned amaranthus
Naengi namul	냉이나물	Parboiled and seasoned shepherd's purse Shepherd's Purse Capsella bursa-pastoris, known by its common name shepherd's-purse because of its triangular, purse-like pods, is a small annual and ruderal species, and a member of the Brassicaceae or mustard family...
Dolnamul	돌나물	Raw Sedum Sedum Sedum is the large stonecrop genus of the Crassulaceae, representing about 400 species of leaf succulents, found throughout the northern hemisphere, varying from annual and creeping herbs to shrubs. The plants have water-storing leaves. The flowers usually have five petals, seldom four or six... with pepper sauce dressing
Gogumasun namul	고구마순나물	Boiled/seasoned sweet potato Sweet potato The sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Amongst the approximately 50 genera and more than 1,000 species of this family, only I. batatas is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable... shoot Shoot Shoots are new plant growth, they can include stems, flowering stems with flower buds, leaves. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop... s
Gaji namul	가지나물	Boiled eggplant
Doraji namul	도라지나물	Boiled balloon flower root Root In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil. This is not always the case, however, since a root can also be aerial or aerating . Furthermore, a stem normally occurring below ground is not exceptional either... s

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