What does it taste like?
Fresh, nutty, and crisp.
Vegetables
Soybean sprouts
콩나물
Common aliases
soybean sprouts · soy bean sprouts · bean sprouts
What is Soybean sprouts?
A practical Korean cooking ingredient used to build balanced flavor and texture in everyday dishes such as rice meals, soups, stews, and banchan.
How is it used?
Boil for soup or blanch for seasoned sides.
Where can you buy it?
Choose crisp sprouts with yellow heads and no sour smell.
How should you store it?
Refrigerate cold and use quickly.
Possible substitutes
Mung bean sprouts are thinner and cook faster.
Recipes using Soybean sprouts
Soups & Stews
Blue Crab and Clam Stew(꽃게바지락찌개)
A savory seafood stew with blue crab, clams, radish, zucchini, bean sprouts, and a lightly seasoned anchovy-kelp broth.
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Soups & Stews
Clear Cod Soup(대구지리탕)
A clean, light cod soup with bean sprouts, water dropwort, crown daisy, chilies, and hand-torn mugwort dough in a dried pollock and kelp broth.
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Soups & Stews
Kimchi Stew with Pork Meatballs(완자김치찌개)
A savory kimchi stew with steamed pork and tofu meatballs, bean sprouts, and a deeply flavored beef broth.
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Soups & Stews
Octopus, Aged Kimchi, and Bean Sprout Soup(낙지묵은지콩나물국)
A warming soup of octopus, rinsed aged kimchi, radish, and bean sprouts simmered in an anchovy and rice-rinsing-water broth.
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Main Dishes
Spicy Bean Sprout Sujebi(얼큰 콩나물 수제비)
A spicy hand-torn noodle soup with bean sprouts in a roasted dried pollock head broth seasoned with gochujang and red pepper flakes.
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Soups & Stews
Squid Kimchi Stew(오징어김치찌개)
A hearty kimchi stew with squid, tofu, enoki mushrooms, sweet potato, bean sprouts, crown daisy, and a savory anchovy-kelp broth.
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Side Dishes
Stir-Fried Soybean Sprouts and Garlic Chives(콩나물부추볶음)
A simple stir-fry of tender soybean sprouts, garlic chives, potato, onion, carrot, and green onion, lightly seasoned with salt.
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Soups & Stews23 min
Soybean Sprout Soup(콩나물국)
A light, clear Korean soup with crisp soybean sprouts, garlic, and green onion.
EasyNot Spicy
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