GoChuJang is one of the most important Korean ingredients. If you are into Korean food, you will need this for your Korean cooking. There are many different brands on the market, but “SoonChang (순창) Gochujang” is known as a very good brand in Korea.
- Use:
Side Dishes, Main Dishes, Soups, Dipping Sauces- Storage:
Once the container is opened, keep it in the refrigerator.- Short Korean lesson: *^^*
GoChuJang (고추장) = Red Pepper Paste
Hi Aeri,
Thank you for posting so many wonderful recipes. I’m especially interested in tteokbokki. The problem is that there’s only one store that has any of the ingredients within an hours drive from me. Your video on how to make tteok really helped me out. I was hoping you had a similar solution for gochujang?
Hi Aeri,
I just buy the hot pepper paste, so i want to try it, but i don’t know what recipe is using this hot pepper sauce, can u tell me? thx
hi Lestari,
If you type “red pepper paste” in my “Search” box.. the right side bar of this blog.. you can see different recipes using it. thanks
Hi…..am your new fans ..hehehe
in Indonesia, Korean Food is become a popular food here…
Big City, like Jakarta (many Korean Expatriat) have a Korean Store, restaurant, …and i have a stock of Gochujang, my friend who lived in other small city, ask me how to make a Homemade of gochujang …please tell me …
hi nicke,
I will add your request to my list. 
thanks
Nice to meet you. You have a nice blog.
hi aeri.. im from indonesia. i can’t find gochujang here..
do u have any suggestion? should i replace it with any other ingredient? or can u tell me how to make gochujang? bcuz i really wanna try to make tteokbokgi…
hi ichakhy,
Then do you have gochugaru.. (hot pepper powder)? you can use that instead..(you might need a little more sugar that case..).. it’s complex to make gochujang.. it I just can’t explain here with some words.. someday in the future, I will try to make gochujang video… thanks..
Hi Aeri,
I bought a box of this a few months back, but it did not have an exp. date… do these last a long time? how long is the average shelf life of red pepper paste if you keep it in the fridge?
hi kamun51,
Yes, once you open the container you have to keep it in the refrigerator.. you can keep quite long time.. more than year.. just make sure, it doesn’t get any moldy or bad thing..but usually it’s okay.. since it’s fermented food.. thanks
Thanks for showing this Aeri. I saw this on the store shelf at the Korean market but there was no English written on it, so I wasn’t sure what it was. Now that I know, I will pick some up next time I go.
I am starting to learn Korean so I will be able to read Hangul and never have this problem in the future.
hi Justin,
thanks
I will post more Korean lessons from this year.. so please check my Korean lesson posts too..
Hi Aeri
What is the difference bet this and vinegered red pepper paste?
Thnx.
hi ymasea25,
vinegered red pepper paste is premade dipping sauce for some Korean food.. such as… you dip some boiled vegetables or seaweed in that sauce…if you want you can use it for bibimbap sauce also.. the red pepper paste in this post is.. pure red pepper paste doesn’t have other seasoning like vinegar … so the vinegered red pepper paste is made from this normal red pepper paste. ^^ thanks..
Hi aeri,
umm i live in CA in the US but
i live in Fresno, CA and i dont know
where to get this paste because i really want
to try to make the food tteokbukki!!!
i really wish to be able to eat it
so do u know how u can help me??
hi Lilian,
You can buy it from amazon.com.
I will give you a link for it.
http://aeriskitchen.com/2010/10/spicy-spinach-pancakes/
under the recipe.. there is “featured item”
and there is a red pepper paste from amazon. try it.. ^^
hello aeri
finally i was able to buy this hot pepper paste bec they are alredy available here in our place,since it’s my first time to buy it i don’t know what to expect except that it is spicy,,how do gochujang smell?when i tried making tteokboki it smelled like tamarind but it
hi sheng,
I hope you enjoy your Korean food with gochujang. thanks
Hehe.. welcome to the spicy world.
Hi,nice to meet you..I’m from Malaysia..My country here do not sell this red pepper paste..so we make it by ourselves?If can hoe to make it?
hi Kar Yee,
Nice to meet you too.
Do you have red pepper powder ???
does gochujang or dwaenjang paste ever go bad? is there a way to tell? i had dwaenjang in my refrigerator for a year and wasn’t sure if it was still good to eat.
hi taco,
both of them are fermented food, so it should be okay.. just once you open the package, keep them in the refrigerator. I use mine more than a year.. so unless it has mold or something it’s okay. ^^
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i have a question. i would like to know the ingredients of this gochujang.
do they used alcohol to produce gochujang. i wanna make tteokbokki and i found gochujang in store near my house but worried its contain alcohol.
hi flowerpot,
Nope gochujang doesn’t have alcohol in it.. so you can eat it without worry.. ^^ Enjoy your tteokbokki..
Hi, i’m really interested in korean cooking and your website and cook book has been a great help to me.
I have a question:
What is the difference between Red Pepper Paste and Hot Pepper paste??
I have the Hot Pepper paste in which i used to make the bibimbap sauce and it does not turn out well.
hi Miranda,
I call Korean gochujang to red pepper paste in English for my recipes..but I’m not sure what you mean.. hot pepper paste..according to what you said.. it seems like it’s different from Korean red pepper paste.. which country brand (ingredient) both of them ..the ones you have ??
red pepper paste (Korean gochujang) is made with red hot pepper powder.. sweet rice flour.. something else.. it’s fermented food.. it has spicy but a little sweet flavor in it.. and the texture is kind of sticky.. thick..
Hi Aeri
What is storage conditions this paste after open the box. Is it in refigerator or keep at room temperature?
hi Kris,
thanks
Once you pen the box, yes keep it in the refrigerator.