Bugak


Bugak is a variety of vegetarian twigim in Korean cuisine. It is made by deep frying dried vegetables or seaweed coated with chapssal-pul and then drying them again. It is eaten as banchan or anju. Common ingredients are green chili peppers, perilla leaves, inflorescence, camellia leaves, chrysanthemum leaves, burdock leaves, tree of heaven shoots, potatoes, gim, and dasima. Vegetable oils such as perilla oil or soybean oil are typically used for frying.
Bugak is a relatively rare culinary technique in Korean cuisine, along with dasima twigak. It is often associated with Korean temple cuisine.

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