In restaurants, doenjang jjigae usually incorporates a small amount of meat and/or seafood, but it’s easy to make a vegan version. If you’re vegetarian, add an egg. This version takes about ...

Doenjang jjigae is one of the two – the other being more widely known kimchi jjigae – common everyday staple stews that spells home comfort. While more traditionally a light fish based stock ...

If I'm using doenjang to season a dish that is typically not doenjang forward (like doenjang-jjigae [soybean paste stew] or meat marinated primarily in doenjang), I tend to use a small amount in ...