Baeksuk () is a

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culinary term referring to dishes made by boiling or steaming meat or fish to be cooked thoroughly without seasonings. ''Baeksuk'' is made with

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with plenty of water for several hours. However, the term generally indicates ''dakbaeksuk'' (닭백숙, chicken ''baeksuk''), or chicken stew, whose recipe and ingredients are similar to ''

samgyetang ''Samgye-tang'' () or ginseng chicken soup, * meaning ginseng ( Kor. ''sam'') - chicken (Kor. ''gye'') - soup (Kor. ''tang'') in Korean, consists primarily of a whole young chicken ( ''poussin'') filled with garlic, rice, jujube, and ginseng. ...

''. While ''samgyetang'' is made with

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, various herbs, chestnuts, and

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s, ''dakbaeksuk'' consists of simpler ingredients, such as chicken, water, and garlic. The chicken can be stuffed with glutinous rice. When the cooking is finished, salt and sliced

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s (''daepa'', 대파) are added to the diner's bowl according to taste. If the ''baesuk'' is not stuffed with glutinous rice, it is usually eaten with cooked rice. It is often seen as a simpler and cheaper variant of ''samgyetang''. Sometimes it is mistakenly used as another word for ''samgyetang''.

''Dak hanmari''

The ''dak hanmari'' (닭한마리) is a popular

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n dish to have developed from ''baeksuk'', which is said to originate in

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area,

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since the 1960s. The dish literally means "a whole chicken" in Korean because diners can have several types of food altogether from a chicken; chicken flesh, its rich soup, ''

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'', potatoes, and '' garaetteok'' (cylinder-shaped

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). It can be eaten with a clear broth just like ''baeksuk'', or seasoned with '' gochujang'' (chili pepper paste) based sauce.

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