Korean Blood Stew (Gukbab)

I'm not feeling well today so just one post (one recipe). Here's one of my favorite stew here in Korea. Yes, I am a weird girl.

Korean Blood Stew (GukBab)

Basic ingredients:
1 cup cow blood (or pigs blood)
300 grams cooked offal [spleen, tripe, intestines, etc]
1 sheet dried seaweed
1/2 cup enoki mushrooms
1/2 daikon white radish, cut into thin squares
1 stalk large green onion or leek
1 cup bean sprouts
2 tbsp gochucaroo powder (red pepper powder)
2 tbsp gochujang (red pepper paste)

Sauce:
5 tbsp Soy sauce
2 tbsp crushed red pepper
4 tbsp chopped green onion
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1/2 tbsp sesame oil
salt and black pepper to taste

*Cooked rice (appx. 4 servings)

Instructions:
1. Cut the offal into small pieces/strips.
2. Clean the seaweed, and cut into small pieces.
3. Cut the white radish into pieces of 3cm in size.
4. Heat water in a large pot, and add the beef to the boiling water.
5. Then add the seaweed and the white radish and keep the water to a boil.
6. Remove the seaweed and the white radish. Discard the seaweed. Let the radish cool.
7. Cut the large stalk of green onion into diagonal pieces.
8. Mix the white radish, seaweed, mushrooms, chopped garlic and diagonal green onion pieces, bean sprouts, salt and pepper, gochukaroo powder, gochujang paste, sesame seeds, and sesame oil together.
9. Finely chop some green onion and garlic.
10. Mix the soy sauce, chopped green and chopped garlic, crushed red pepper, sesame seeds, pepper, sesame oil to make the sauce.
11. Once the soup in #4 of this list has boiled for some time, add the ingredients from #8 on this list to the soup, and add salt for taste. Add the blood and break it in big chunks and let simmer for 10 minutes.
12. In seperate bowls, scoop some cooked rice into it and then add the soup on top. Sprinkle freshly chopped leeks and gochukaroo (red pepper powder). Then it's ready to eat. Serve the soup with sauce that you prepared in #10 on the side.

***To make sundaeguk, Just add freshly steam sliced sundae (korean blood sausages) on top of the soup in the bowl. Eat and enjoy.

PS. You can also add chopped napa cabbage to the soup to add to the veggies. Oh and if you have no problems with MSG, you can add half a tablespoon too.