Bugak Explained

Bugak
Country:	Korea
National Cuisine:	Korean cuisine
Type:	Fritter
Serving Size:	100 g

Korean name
Hangul:	Korean: 부각
Hanja:	none
Rr:	bugak
Mr:	pugak
Koreanipa:	pronounced as /ko/

Bugak is a variety of vegetarian twigim (deep-fried dish) in Korean cuisine.^[1] It is made by deep frying dried vegetables or seaweed coated with chapssal-pul (Korean: 찹쌀풀; glutinous rice paste) and then drying them again.^[2] It is eaten as banchan (accompaniment to cooked rice) or anju (accompaniment to alcoholic beverages). Common ingredients are green chili peppers, perilla leaves, perilla inflorescence, camellia leaves, chrysanthemum leaves, burdock leaves, tree of heaven shoots, potatoes, gim (laver), and dasima (kelp). Vegetable oils such as perilla oil or soybean oil are typically used for frying.^[3]

Bugak is a relatively rare culinary technique in Korean cuisine, along with dasima twigak (Korean: 튀각; deep fried vegetables without coating). It is often associated with Korean temple cuisine.^[4]

Varieties

• dangeun-bugak (Korean: 당근부각) – made with carrots
  • dasima-bugak (Korean: 다시마부각) – made with kelp deulkkae-songi-bugak (Korean: 들깨송이부각) – made with perilla inflorescence
• dongbaek-ip-bugak (Korean: 동백잎부각) – made with camellia leaves
• dureup-bugak (Korean: 두릅부각) – made with angelica tree shoots
• eumnamu-sun-bugak (Korean: 음나무순부각) – made with castor aralia shoots
• gajuk-bugak (Korean: 가죽부각) – made with tree of heaven shoots
• gamja-bugak (Korean: 감자부각) – made with potatoes
• gamnnip-bugak (Korean: 감잎부각) – made with persimmon leaves
  • gim-bugak (Korean: 김부각) – made with laver gochu-bugak (Korean: 고추부각) – made with green chili peppers
• gukhwa-ip-bugak (Korean: 국화잎부각) – made with chrysanthemum leaves
  • kkaennip-bugak (Korean: 깻잎부각) – made with perilla leaves mosi-ip-bugak (Korean: 모시잎부각) – made with ramie leaves
• ogapi-ip-bugak (Korean: 오가피잎부각) – made with eleuthero leaves
  • • parae-bugak (Korean: 파래부각) – made with green laver ssuk-bugak (Korean: 쑥부각) – made with Korean mugwort ueong-ip-bugak (Korean: 우엉잎부각) – made with burdock

See also

• Twigak
• Korean temple cuisine

Notes and References

1. News: Hungry City: Dotory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mishan. Ligaya. 1 May 2014. The New York Times. 30 May 2017.
2. Web site: Twigak and Bugak (fried kelp). Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corporation. https://web.archive.org/web/20090414053422/http://www.foodinkorea.org/eng_food/tradition/tradition4_1.jsp. 14 April 2009. 21 June 2008.
3. Web site: bugak. 서. 혜경. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. Academy of Korean Studies. ko. ko:부각. 21 June 2008.
4. News: The taste of time: No country enjoys fermented and preserved foods like Korea. Yoon. Sook-ja. January 2015. KOREA. 30 April 2017. Korean Culture and Information Service. 1. 11. 11. issuu.