Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, japchae. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Rinse noodles under cold water and drain. Japchae or chapchae (잡채) is a very popular Korean dish. It is the number one sought after dish particularly during the Korean festive holidays (e.g.
Japchae is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Japchae is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have japchae using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Japchae:
- Get 1 white onion
- Get 5 green onion stalks cut in 4 pieces
- Make ready 1 big carrot shredded
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare Vegetable oil
- Take Sesame oil
- Prepare Sesame seeds
- Make ready 1 pack triple washed spinach
- Get Soy sauce
- Take Brown sugar
- Take Salt
- Get Shitake mushroom
- Make ready New York sirloin steak or rib eye steak
- Make ready 2 packs japchae noodles
Japchae (잡채) literally means "mixed vegetables." However, the main ingredient of this classic dish is Korean sweet potato starch noodles (dangmyeon, 당면), also known as glass noodles. Japchae is an essential dish for traditional holidays and special occasions. Japchae is Korean stir-fried noodles with a unique texture. It means mixed vegetables in Korean, but besides the colorful vegetables, and the well-seasoned beef, it is the bouncy and slippery sweet potato glass noodles called dangmyeong that set it apart from others.
Steps to make Japchae:
- First put pack of dry shitake mushrooms in a bowl of water. Let sit for about 2 hrs. Then wring out water from each mushroom and fan it out. Cut into strips. In a bowl marinate chopped up sirloin steak and mushrooms In 2-3 tbsp of soysauce, 3 tbsp brown sugar, and 1 tbsp sesame oil. Let sit for 2 hours.
- Boil Large pot of water with salt and veg oil. Add 2 pack of japchae noodles and boil for 10 minutes.
- Crack 1 egg in a bowl, add pinch of salt and scramble. Then in a pan, heat a little bit of oil and cook egg. Set aside for topping at the end.
- Add more oil to pan, and sauté shredded carrots. Add pinch of salt and cook until done. Set aside In a large bowl.
- Next, add more oil and Sauté remaining onion and green onion. Add pinch of salt. When done add to the large bowl with carrots. Then add 2 tbsp of soy sauce, 2 tbsp of brown sugar and 2 tbsp of sesame oil. Mix well.
- Continuously Check noodles to see if it is cooked, then drain through a strainer over sink. Rinse With Cold water. And cut with scissors (noodles are very long)
- Boil Large pot of water and Blanche spinach. Add salt.Then drain and soak in cold water with ice for a couple of min. Strain spinach and squeeze excess water from it, separating spinach into as many Individual pieces as possible. Then cook in a pan with a little bit of oil and add sesame seeds. Once done add to bowl with carrots and onions.
- In pan, heat veg oil and cook marinated meat. Add a little bit more salt and sesame oil (optional). Add to bowl with carrots, onions and spinach. Also add japchae noodles.
- Lastly add 2 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp soy sauce and 2 tbsp sesame oil depending on taste preference. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and transfer to a larger container for plating. Cut the scrambled egg from earlier into shredded pieces and add to japchae. Add sesame seeds and enjoy!
Japchae is Korean stir-fried noodles with a unique texture. It means mixed vegetables in Korean, but besides the colorful vegetables, and the well-seasoned beef, it is the bouncy and slippery sweet potato glass noodles called dangmyeong that set it apart from others. Japchae is sweet potato noodles (dangmyeon) stir fried with vegetables and meat. It's one of Korea's best-loved dishes and it is served at Korean parties and special occasions. The ingredients for this dish include thinly sliced carrot, onion, spinach, and mushrooms, and sometimes include thinly sliced beef.
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