How does red pepper paste with apple taste? Let's have a spicy and sweet experience by dipping apple and pepper paste with your family. While waiting for the red pepper paste to be made, you can stroll around the village and see the jars of miso and red pepper paste ripening. A delicious meal prepared with healthy food without chemical seasoning is also enjoyable.

Cheondeungsan Traditional Miso, Chungju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, is known for its traditional Korean soybean paste, red pepper paste, and organic soy sauce. Soy sauce, which is soaked in the traditional way without adding chemical seasonings or pigments, is highly praised by regular customers across the country. There are people who buy the amount to eat for a year and put it in a jar on the farm, and then take it a little and eat it.

The young and old Kim Young-ja, who lived in the city of Chungju, took home at the foot of Cheondeungsan Mountain 13 years ago. In a natural environment with good water and good air, her husband farmed apples, and his wife began to soak miso and red pepper paste using the skills he inherited from his mother. When he was over fifty, he dreamed that he would live with soybean paste and red pepper paste.
At first, the amount of soaking and sharing with acquaintances began to increase year by year, and it was even sold. As more and more people asked for their secrets, they started operating a chapter making workshop.

“My husband is very good at apple farming. Chungju apples taste really good. So I was thinking about how to use an apple when soaking it, and then I developed an apple pepper paste. ”
Chungju, which has a large daily cross-section and rich sunshine, has a reputation for producing apples that taste better than any other region. Chungju apple, which is rich in juice and sweet, meets with red pepper powder to create a unique hot pepper paste with a spicy taste. In particular, it is said that it is enough to taste the food that is heated, such as stir-fried octopus or tteokbokki.

Ingredients for apple pepper paste are surprisingly simple. Red pepper powder, malt, salt, and salt are the same as regular red pepper paste. To this, boiled apples and concentrated apple water are added. It is important to keep in mind the proportion of each ingredient.

Now, let's make apple pepper paste. Boil apples to make apple water, and glutinous rice flour soaked in water is cooked in malt and boil for 5-6 hours with apple water. The pre-made concentrate is handed out to the experienced customers. Add red pepper powder, salt powder, and salt and mix it evenly.

In the excitement of soaking red pepper paste for the first time in life, young mothers and dads unfamiliar with kitchen work wear aprons without hesitation. For children who do not eat spicy food, it is a special experience to make apple pepper paste. Stir in the spatula with the red pepper powder that tickles the tip of the nose. I'm going to make delicious Tteokbokki with my own red pepper paste. It was said that the first taste was jeongseong. You need to stir evenly, giving strength to the hand holding the spatula.

While waiting for the red pepper powder and various ingredients to melt, the experienced visitors go on a village tour with Mr. Kim. It is the way to meet the jars of traditional delicacy in Cheondeungsan.

There are hundreds of shiny jars in the space where the owner and the couple live. As I stayed, I heard soy sauce with a transparent color, and miso with a yellowish sweet taste. These are jars that will make your heart more relaxed just by looking at it.

Kim Young-ja opens the lid of the jar to show the taste of miso. Direct farming is miso soaked with salt that doesn't taste bitter, using fresh soybeans and extracting bittern for more than two years.

The place where the jars lined up is at the foot of Cheondeungsan. It is the song that starts with “My Own Crying over Chundal-jae, Chundeung-san,” and that Chundeung-san in <Park Dal-jae, crying over>. The spirit of the mountain seems to add to the deep flavor of the intestine. The wind from Songgang Reservoir down there also adds strength.

When you return after completing an hour's visit to the village, the color of apple peppers made by experienced visitors is quite different. When the ingredients were only mixed with a spatula, they were slightly thin and light in color, while the concentration became thicker and the red color became darker. You can take well-made gochujang in a glass bottle. You can put it in the refrigerator immediately after taking it home and eat it after 2 weeks.

In addition to dipping apple and pepper paste, you can experience various experiences using apples such as making apple sushi, making apple cider vinegar, and making apple ssamjang. There is also an experience of making black rice steamed bread popular with kindergarteners and elementary school students, and making pickles that are very popular with housewives.

If you are unfortunate with the making experience, why don't you try a meal of rice to see the taste and taste of this place? It is a healthy diet that does not contain chemical seasonings such as deodeokjangjang and duljangjangji, chestnut stew made with chestnuts, a specialty of Chungju, and black sesame salad. It is not enviable for any buffet restaurant with delicious side dishes filled with sincerity.

Due to the nature of the experience, there are a lot of groups, but if you have more than 15 people at any time, it is good to have a family plan together.

Cheondeungsan traditional miso
Address: 277, Segogae-ro, Sancheok-myeon, Chungju-si, Chungbuk
Contact: 043-847-8074

1.Access

* Self-driving

Jungbu Inland Expressway Gamgok IC → Turn left toward Jecheon → Go about 21 km along National Route 38 → Go about 8 km after entering Mokgye Bridge → Turn to Sancheok, Songgang-ri at Songgang Intersection → Turn left at Umjeong in Songgang Intersection → Cheondeungsan Traditional Miso

* public transport

Operates every 20 minutes from East Seoul General Terminal to Chungju (06: 00-21: 40), takes 1 hour 40 minutes
Take bus 334 at Chungju Public Bus Terminal Stop and get off at Songjeong Bus Stop. Walk about 500m from the stop and you will reach Cheondeungsan Traditional Miso.

2. Restaurants around

Persimmon house: Pheasant cuisine / 339-1 Mireuksonggye-ro, Suanbo-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-846-0608

Courtyard Garden: Freshwater Maeuntang / 441, Jideung-ro, Dongnyang-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-851-4077

http://www.마당가든.kr/

Cheongsol Restaurant: Sanchaejeongsik / 20 Jangteo 2-gil, Suanbo-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-846-6373

3.Accommodation

Sansu Motel: 21, Topgol 1-gil, Suanbo-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-848-0009

http://www.산수파크.com/

Gloria Hotel: 12 Jangteo 2-gil, Suanbo-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-856-7008

Suanbokoresco Hotel: 49, Jujeongsan-ro, Suanbo-myeon, Chungju-si / 043-846-3636

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