Easy Kimchi

Ingredients	Metric	US
napa cabbage	2.5 kg	5.5 lb
scallions	250 g	8 oz
garlic cloves, crushed	6	6
ginger root, finely diced	25 g	1 oz
red pepper powder	40 g	1.4 oz
salt	50 g	3 Tbsp
sugar	15 g	1 Tbsp

1. Trim off outer leaves, split cabbage into separate halves.
2. Make a brine: 3 cups salt to 4 quarts water. Brine the cabbage for 3 hours. Rinse cabbage in fresh water and squeeze the water out, repeat twice more. Drain cabbage for 30 minutes.
3. Cut cabbage into 2î (5 cm) sections.
4. Add a little water to red pepper powder and make paste.
5. Cut scallions diagonally, dice ginger and crush garlic.
6. Add salt and sugar and mix all together.
7. Pack stuffed cabbage in a container. Put on top outer leaves that were removed in step #1. Sprinkle with salt. Place weight on top. Ferment 3 days.