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Monday, August 2, 2010

Japchae 잡채

Ingredients
Marinated bulgogi (1 cup)
1 beaten egg + dash of salt
1 carrot (about 1/2 cup)
1/2 cup sliced onion
1 cup sliced mushrooms
Spinach (blanched then fried with dash of salt + 1 tp sesame oil)
4 TB soy sauce + 1 TB sugar
Dangmyun noodles
1 TB minced garlic

Put water on the stove so it can start to boil for the noodles. You start cooking the vegetables / gogi while you wait for the water


In the meantime, I sliced up some mushrooms and onions to make something else, so I already had some in a tuperware so I took them out...




I used my mandolin to slice the carrot thin



Next heat a small pan with some oil and fry your beaten egg.... try to get it pretty thin (unless you like the egg to be a little "chunkier" in the jap chae).. then slice it into thin strips







In another burner, heat up your wok / pan with some oil and add the minced garlic


Add your bulgogi (see other post for how to marinade if you want to, or just buy a pre-made one) and onions




The water should be boiling right now, so add your dangmyun. I used this bag, and to give you a sense, I used about 1/4 of what was inside




You have to watch the pot and fry pan and do everything simultaneously...  don't cook the noodles all the way, only about 75% because you will be adding them to the pot...  I cooked mine about 7-8 minutes then put it in a strainer (while I continued with the below)



Meanwhile, make you the gogi is only about half way cooked to avoid over cooking, then add your mushrooms (feel free to use enoki instead etc)


Cook for about a minute, then add the carrots


Mix around and then add the sliced egg


Then add your spinach


Make sure everything is about 85% cooked


Add the dangmyun to the wok


Mix it around....


Mix together the soy sauce and sugar so you can add it to the wok and stir around





Taste it and adjust it as you like... add more soy sauce if you want! Then when it's ready, time to eat!





And you can change the recipe depending on what you like! For example, we love mushrooms, but aren't a big fan of carrots hence my putting more mushrooms in!  You can change the mix of vegetables, or put in more noodles / less vegetables etc...

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