Japchae Korean stir fried noodles
Hi everyone I'm Nami from Just one cookbook.
Today, we have a special guest, Seonkyoung from Asian At Home.
Annyeonghaseyo! Annyeonghaseyo! Annyeonghaseyo!
I'm Seonkyoung Longest here. Thank you so much for having me today.
We are very excited because we are going to make Japchae which is my favorite Korean food.
Awesome! because what cha-cha is a one of my signature recipe and I cannot wait to share with you all,
and yeah let's get started this recipe is really delicious! You all gonna love it!
Okay! so we are going to start cutting our vegetables and the beef.
so are you ready to slice vegetables? Yes!
...Can you maybe remove the stems of the shiitake mushrooms? And just slice ... ( 5 Shiitake mushrooms )
every vegetable just need to be a thinly slice
and I'm just going to slice this ( 1/4 bell pepper )
How long is this? About like a 2 inch long? 2.5 ~ 2 inch long.
And you want all the vegetable to be like a same size.
so it'll cook at the same time.
The onion also thinly slice. mm-hm...
( 1/2 medium onion )
I don't think we will need to whole entire of carrot.
We just need about 100 g about one small to medium size carrots.
( 1/2 large carrot )
Beautiful!
Alright, and also we will need our protein.
and the thing... I like to use is actually egg omelet on top and some beef in it. It's almost like a Bulgogi.
Bulgogi is that Korean signature of flavor beef.
and Bulgogi kinda type of food in it... so...
Can you maybe crack the egg and beat them to make an omelet? Okay
( 2 eggs )
I also want to cut the beef as thin as other vegetables.
( 1/2 lb beef )
I'm going to use sesame oil right? yeah just like a really little bit. since it's nonstick pan. Okay!
Because we have to use the sesame oil every single vegetable when you stir-fry. Okay.
just everything just need to be julienne strips.
so I'm gonna flip the omelet right? yes! okay.
It does not be perfect because we are going to slice them anyway.
because this even there's a little bit ripped it's ok... so don't worried about it. yeah!! Perfect!
You are awesome! Now I'm going to seasoned the beef, okay?
with one clove of chopped garlic.
just gonna put in
and 1/2 Tablespoon of sesame oil
1/2 Tablesppon of Mirin
Mirin, you use a lot in Japanese cooking too.
Korean cooking use a lot Mirin too.
It's an amazing flavoring too.
Alright, and a Tablespoon of sugar, okay.
I'm going to move the omelet to the side.
It's done cooking - Perfect!
1 Tablespoon of soy sauce
Korean soy sauce, we are using Korean soy sauce today.
Because Korean soy sauce is more like kinda a darker in color and also a little bit sweeter, okay.
and last just little a bit of black pepper.
we're just mix it up, okay... yeah that's it!
and let it marinate it while we are cooking vegetable.
yeah so, this beef is done and we are going to just set aside.
You want to smell it?
the garlic smell and sesame oil.. you can not go wrong with this.
Should I put salt right now? yeah. Just a little bit please.
the smell is real nice, yeah.
the sesame oil and the onion stir frying, you can't go wrong with that yeah it's amazing.
Alright, water is boiling, so I'm going to add some salt into water, okay.
so you will season the spinach and noodle.
also, it's going to spinach really bright green.
( 11~12 oz fresh spinach )
In the meanwhile, I'm starting with the mushrooms, shiitake mushroom. same things stir fry with the sesame oil, yeah.
okay
I'm just going to take out spinach now. They need to cook maybe just 20~30 seconds. That's all they need.
because you don't you don't want over cook the spinach.
and in the same water, we are going to add the noodle.
The noodle called, Dangmyeon. Dangmyeon, this is a Korean sweet potato starch noodle.
You will need like a little less than a pound, okay.
so like this recipe is a huge batch which is you need.. when you make it once.
Everybody love it!
so I'm just going to pull...
about 14 once, okay.
so I'm going to move the mushroom to the plate. Right? next to the onion.
Alright, my noodles are done cooking, so gonna drain it,
and you and you don't need to rinse off in cold water, okay. All we need to do is drain completely and
then toast in a little bit of sesame oil so they won't stick to each other.
In the meanwhile, I'm going to start the meat.
That sounds good when you cooking meat!
It sounds great!
It smell amazing!
and you cook the beef until all juices are gone.
Alright, now I'm going to pull this noodles into the place.
We are actually going to cut this noodles with scissors.
because they are duper duper long right now... too long to eat... yeah but you wanna like a spread like this, okay.
and let them kinda of cool down a little bit, because we have to toss with our hands.
woo... that's the fun part!
Alright, the last vegetable, the branched spinach.
I'm just going to squeeze the juice.
so you don't want the noodle to be too soggy.
We just gonna add right here...
I think my meat is almost done.
I think this is the perfect timing to put together your sauce which is supper easy.
you will need a 1/3 cup of soy sauce, Korean soy sauce.
and same amount of sugar 1/3 cup of sugar or honey that you can use.
and one Tbsp of sesame seeds
If you like more sesame seeds... I always put a little more.
I love sesame seeds too.
and 2 Tbsp of sesame oil
and one clove of chopped garlic
really fine chopped because you will have raw garlic and you don't want big chunk of garlic.
I actually forgot little bit of black pepper into the sauce.
we are going to add now...
and we are done!
We all have to do is just mix this up.
and just top up with some egg omelet right on top!
ok! Let's do that!
Alright, so I'm going to just cut the noodles with scissors, kitchen scissors.
because the noodle is super long.
( roll up egg omelet and cut into thin ribbons )
then I'm just going to pour this sauce only into the noodles.
not the vegetables cause noodles is the main thing that needs seasoning.
( and mix well with hand! )
so when do we put the omelet? That is to decorate or ...
we gonna put like 2/3 of it now.
because the egg omelet is really easy to break, so you don't want to add the beginning of the mixture.
so you just wanna mix like that.
very very gentle now, because you don't want to break...
now it's done and I'm going to put some on the plate
looks so good...
and this can be either main dish or side dish because it has a starch, protein has vegetables.
it's just perfect and then we're going to put what we gonna put on top?
like a little garnish.
if you want it... because it's real totally up to you, but if you like to
you can add...It's pretty that way! a little egg omelet and some sesame seed.
Sprinkle!
We are done!
I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial.
Thanks so much for coming to teach us how to make Japchae!
no problem! It was it was awesome for me too.
and if you enjoyed this today's tutorial, make sure to check out her videos at Asian at home!
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Thank you so much for watching us and it was it was honor for me.
It was fun. Yes! it was too much fun. It was like too much food and too much fun.
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