Recipe-5. Japchae
[ Japchae ]
(Stir-Fried Starch Noodles with Beef and Vegetables)
Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Korean
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 4
Japchae is one of my all time favourite dinners. A bona fide classic of Korean celebration food. Perfect for dinner parties, Chuseok and Seol.
What You'll Need
Ingredients
Meat
170g Medallion Steak (Fillet Mignon)
Vegetable Oil for frying
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- Vegetable Oil
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- Lotte Soy Bean Oil 18L
- CJ Baekseoul Soybean Oil 9L
- CJ Baekseoul Soybean Oil 18L
- Cooking Oil Canola Manildra Gold 20L
Vegetable and Sweetpotato Noodle
- 1 Onion, Thinly Sliced
- A Few Pinches of Sea Salt
- CJ KOREAN SALT 3kg*6
- CJ KOREAN SALT 1kg*10
- CJ SOLAR SALT 5kg*4
- CJ SOLAR SALT 3kg*4
- CJ SEASONING SALT 1kg*10
- 6 Chestnut Mushrooms, Thinly Sliced
- 6 White Mushrooms, Thinly Sliced
- 1 Red Pepper, Thinly Sliced
- 1 Orange Pepper, Thinly Sliced
- 1 Carrot, Thinly Sliced
- 130g, Spinach
- 300g, Sweet potato Noodles
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- Sweetpotato Noodle
- CJ BAEKSUL GLASS NOODLE 1kg
- CJ BAEKSUL GLASS NOODLE 14kg
- CJ BAEKSUL FLAT NOODLE 300G
- Sweet Potato Noodle (1.3-1.4mm) 10kg
- Sweet Potato Noodle Tied 500g(1.1-1.2mm)
- Sweet Potato Noodle 10kg(1.1-1.2mm)-Normal Size
Beef Marinade
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
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- Soy sauce
- Soy Sauce Jin 13L
- ½ tbsp Sugar
- White Sugar CJ Beksul White sugar 3kg*6
- 1 tbsp Rice Wine (Cooking Wine)
- 1 tbsp Mashed Garlic
- Frozen Whole Garlic 1kg
Glass Noodle Sauce
- 3 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- ½ tbsp Oyster Sauce
- LKK PANDA Oyster Sauce 907g*6
- 1 tbsp Sesame Oil
- CJ BIBIGO Sesame Oil 1L*6
- Sesame Oil Ottogi 1L*8
- Sesame Oil Yeo's 2L*6/Yeo's
- A Pinch of Pepper
Finishing sauce
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tbsp Sesame Oil
- ½ tbsp Rice Syrup
- A Pinch of Roasted Sesame Seeds
- Roasted Sesame 1kg*10
- A Pinch of Pepper
How to Make It
Instruction:
- Freeze the steak for 1 and a half hours to 2 hours. I froze it for 2 hours. You don’t want it completely frozen, just firm. It is not compulsory to freeze the steak first but it makes it much easier to slice thinly.
- When firm, thinly slice the steak. Add all of the Beef Marinade ingredients and mix well. Set aside for 30 minutes.
- Pour a bit of vegetable oil into a frying pan over a high heat. Fry the chopped onions with a pinch of sea salt. Remove and set aside when cooked.
- Add a little more vegetable oil to the frying pan. Fry the chestnut mushrooms and the white mushrooms with a pinch of sea salt. Remove and set aside when cooked.
- Pour a bit of vegetable oil into a frying pan over a high heat. Fry the chopped carrots with a pinch of sea salt. Remove and set aside when cooked.
- Add a little more vegetable oil to the frying pan. Fry the red peppers and the orange peppers with a pinch of sea salt. Remove and set aside when cooked.
- Pour a bit of sesame oil into a frying pan over a high heat. Fry spinach with a pinch of sea salt. Remove and set aside when cooked. As the spinach I use is Biking spinach not Asian Spinach, you don't need to boil this spinach like Asian ones. If you boil this one, it gets too soggy later.
- Fry the beef in the frying pan without vegetable oil over a high heat. Stir occasionally until it is completely cooked.
- Boil the glass noodles in a separate pan with enough water to cover them. Boil them for 8 to 9 minutes until they are soft. Drain them in a sieve and shower them with cold water to cool.
- Add all the glass noodle sauce ingredients to a wok and the glass noodles as well over a medium heat. Mix them thoroughly for 2 - 3 minutes.
- Add all the cooked vegetables, beef and the finishing sauce to the pan and mix together.
- Sprinkle a pinch of sesame seeds and serve with your favourite side dishes.
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