Kimchi - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 2-3 Chinese leaf (2kg prepared weight)
• 40-60g sea salt (3% of the cabbage weight)
• 1 tbsp seaweed (I use wakame), lightly rinsed
• 1 carrot
• ½ leek
• 2 spring onions
• 40g onion, chopped
• 40g garlic (10 cloves), peeled
• 5g ginger, chopped
• 1 small pear, cored and chopped
• 40g Korean chilli flakes (use less if you prefer it milder)
• a 2-litre sterilised jar