Homemade vegan kimchi fermented for 36 hours and served on toasted ciabatta.

  • Serves: 4 people
  • Prep time: 2,160 minutes
  • Cooking time: 5 minutes
    • Italian
    • Dairy Free
    • Vegetarian
    • Vegan

    Vegan Kimchi Cabbage Bruschetta

    Recipe Information

    Ingredients
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    For the Kimchi:

    1 x Savoy Cabbage

    40g Ground Rock Salt

    45ml Soy Sauce

    20g Caster Sugar

    100ml Pineapple Juice

    50g Fresh Ginger, peeled

    1 x Small Bulb Garlic

    1 x Small Red Onion

    12g Chilli Flakes

    1 x Lime, juiced

    1 x Kilner-type Jar, sterilised

     

    For the Bruschetta:

    1 x 300g Specially Selected Bake at Home Ciabatta Loaf

    40ml Garlic Infused Olive Oil

    1 x Spring Onion

    28 Baby Spinach Leaves

    7 x Cherry Plum Tomatoes

    Method

    To make the Kimchi:

    Keep your hands clean and dry while handling the cabbage.

    Cut the cabbage into quarters lengthways, chop off the bottoms and discard, along with any tough outside leaves.

    Put them into a large bowl and gently pull the leaves apart.

    Sprinkle over the salt, making sure that it gets around all the leaves.

    Allow to rest for 30 minutes, then gently move the leaves around with the salt.

    Do this 4 more times with 30 minutes resting time in-between.

    The cabbage will release a lot of liquid and shrink in size. 

    Peel the red onion and chop. Peel all the cloves of garlic from the bulb and chop. Chop the ginger.

    Put the red onion, garlic, ginger, chilli flakes, pineapple juice, lime juice, soy sauce and caster sugar into a food processor and process until you have a thick sauce.

    Wash the cabbage to remove the salt and pat dry with some paper towels.

    Dip the leaves in the chilli sauce and put into the prepared jar.

    Pour over any sauce that is left.

    Seal and allow to ferment for at least 36 hours – out of the fridge.

    Push the cabbage down in the jar with a clean spoon, to press out any bubbles – the bubbles are a good sign that the cabbage is fermenting.

    Then you can transfer it to the fridge where it will keep for at least 3 weeks.

     

    To make the Bruschetta:

    Slice the loaf into 12 slices – no need to bake it first.

    Fry them in a frying pan in the oil until slightly browned.

    Thinly slice the spring onion. Finely dice the tomatoes.

    Serve each slice topped with a couple of spinach leaves, a generous spoonful of kimchi and top with some diced tomatoes and slices of spring onion.