Korean Cuisine

Japchae

Cuisine: Korean Servings: Serves 4-6 Created by Yong-Kyu Kwon

Deliciously chewy potato starch noodles cooked with julienned vegetables which have been lightly cooked in sesame and soy sauce. Japchae is a popular Korean dish for parties.

Ingredients

100g lean beef
200g “Japchae” sweet potato noodle
1 onion cut into thin strips
1 carrot cut into thin strips
1 green capsicum cut into thin strips
6 “Pyogo” shiitake mushrooms, soaked and cut into thin strips
1 egg, white and yolk separated, each beaten, fried thinly and cut into strips
Salt
Vegetable oil

Marinade (for beef)
4 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp sesame oil
Black pepper

Sauce
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp sesame oil

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Preparation

Cut beef into thin strips and marinate.

Soak the sweet potato noodle in water for a few minutes. Cook in plenty of boiling water for 5 minutes. Rinse in cold water and drain well. Cut noodles into roughly 10-15 cm lengths. Mix with sauce.

Stir-fry the vegetables separately in a lightly greased pan with a pinch of salt, set aside.

Stir-fry the marinated meat and the mushroom separately and set aside.

Stir-fry the noodles for a couple of minutes and put into a large bowl. Combine all the ingredients.

Add more soy sauce, sugar or sesame oil to taste. Place thinly sliced egg white and yolk on top of noodles for garnish. Heat before serving (or serve cold).

Variation:
Instead of green capsicum, use green beans or English spinach lightly blanched and stir-fried. Several kinds of mushrooms can also be used to make ‘Mushroom Japchae’.

Korean Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 87 Korean Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Arirang	Perth
2.	Mapo Korean Restaurant	Adelaide
3.	7 & 7	Carnegie
4.	Mukunghwa	Glebe
5.	Se Joung	Campsie
6.	Great River Korean Barbecue	Adelaide
7.	Seoul Restaurant	Melbourne
8.	Korea Palace	Melbourne
9.	Kimchi Grandma	Carnegie
10.	JJ Jackson	Brisbane

16 Aug 2010 08:26 AEST

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21 Mar 2010 09:54 AEST

Kate

Trinity Beach

OMG it is great

This is a great dish my whole family loved. The kids are already asking me to make it again. It is also a simple dish that anyone can follow. Great dish.

10 Oct 2008 01:18 AEST

Elsa Ng

Vancouver, Canada

Surprisingly easy

This was so easy yet so authentic to the Japchae that I've had at Korean restaurants. I also remember from a few of my Korean friends that this dish was "very difficult", "takes a long time" and "only my mom knows how to make it". The flavouring ratio of soy to sugar was perfect. I even tried marinating the beef with a bit of pureed nashi and onion and it made it even taste better. Thanks for doing this dish on the show!

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