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Gyeoja kimchi (mustard kimchi)겨자김치

Gyeoja kimchi is the dictionary name for kimchi tossed with mustard. The mustard is made the Korean way, with seeds soaked, ground and warmed in steam to bring out their bite, then mixed with honey, salt and vinegar.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Gyeoja kimchi itself.

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Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNo recipe amounts for the kimchi. The only amounts are the 1902 court ratio for mustard sauce, which is a nearby product.
Vegetables, salted as for kimchiNo source read names the vegetables[KoWiki]
Mustard seed, soaked in water and groundWarmed over steam to draw out its heat[nfm-gyeoja]
Honey, salt and vinegarMixed into the ground mustard; a 1902 court record gives 3 hop yellow mustard, 5 jak honey, 1 hop vinegar and 1 jak salt for mustard sauce[nfm-gyeoja]
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What changes: Soaked, ground mustard seed is warmed over steam, then mixed with honey, salt and vinegar

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Make the mustard
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Salt
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Mustard seed is soaked, ground and warmed over steam, then honey, salt and vinegar are added.

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Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Gyeoja kimchi is the dictionary name for kimchi tossed with mustard. The mustard is made the Korean way, with seeds soaked, ground and warmed in steam to bring out their bite, then mixed with honey, salt and vinegar.

What makes this one different

Gyeoja kimchi is seasoned with prepared mustard rather than mainly with chilli and jeot. It is close to gyeojachae, the mustard-dressed salad of raw vegetables, fruit, meat and seafood, which is not fermented.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Gyeojachae (겨자채)Unfermented salad of vegetables, fruit, meat and seafood dressed with mustard juice; a nearby dish, not a kimchi.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

Mustard sauce has a long history in Korea as a partner for raw fish, and the court used it with boiled meats and pickles.

  1. [nfm-gyeoja] National Folk Museum of Korea, Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture, Korean Food, Clothing and Housing (한국의식주생활사전), 겨자 and 겨자채; KOGL type 2, facts only; read 2026-10book
  2. [KoWiki] Korean Wikipedia, 김치 (겨자김치 definition, after the Standard Korean Language Dictionary), read 2026-10wiki
  3. [LL1990] Lee Hyo-ji and Lee Hye-kyung 1990, 김치문화의 변천에 관한 문헌적 고찰 (a literature review of changes in kimchi culture; 116 kimchi and 10 kkakdugi in 61 cookbooks, 752–1984), Korean Journal of Heritage 23, 107–133paper