Yen Can Cook: Japchae
Korean food is one of my perennial favourite cuisine but dine in at Korean restaurant is never come cheap 🙁 How about duplicate it at home? Today’s I’m going to share the recipe of Japchae, a Korean dish made from sweet potato noodles (called dangmyeon, Korean: 당면), stir fried in sesame oil and soy sauce with vegetables and meat. It may be served hot or cold.
The main ingredient of sweet potato noodles is not commonly found at supermarkets but you can try your luck at Jaya Grocer or Big Independent Grocer(BIG) which offers quite a good selections of imported dry goods.
Ingredients (Serve 3-4)
250g sweet potato noodles
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1.5 tablespoon sesame oil
1.5 tablespoon cooking oil
1 small carrot, shredded
1/2 yellow onion, shredded
3-4 dried/fresh shiitake mushrooms, stem removed and sliced
150g spinach (I replace with Baby Bok Choy as I couldn’t get spinach that day)
150g pork, beef or chicken, thinly sliced
2 eggs
2.5 tablespoons sugar
salt to taste
Meat Marinade
1.5 tablespoons soy sauce
6 teaspoon sugar
black pepper & sesame oil
This is the sweet potato noodles I got from BIG and the portion above is half packet (250g)
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Step 1: Marinate the meat for at least 3 hours.
Step 2: Heat up a pot of water and bring it to boil. Blanch the spinach until they are wilted, take out and squeeze it to discard water. Cut the spinach into smaller stalks. Slightly season with salt and sesame oil, set aside.
Step 3: Continue to cook the sweet potato noodles in the same pot of boiling water (Step 2) for about 6-7 minutes until soft and chewy. Drain the water and cut the noodles using a pair of scissors into shorter strand.
Step 4: Beat the eggs and heat a pan over low-medium heat. Pour in the egg and quickly swirl it around by tilting the pan in all directions until it coats the bottom of the pan evenly. When the edges are dry and the middle is just set, loosen the edges with a spatula or chopstick and then turn the egg crepe over and let the other side cook for about 10 seconds, then flip the egg crepe out onto a plate to cool. Cut the egg crepe into thin slices.
Step 5: Stir fry the carrot, onions and shiitake mushroom in a wok till soft, then add in the marinated meat stir fry till the meat is fully cooked. Turn the heat to low and add the noodles and spinach into the wok, follow by the soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Lastly stir in the shredded egg crepe and combine well. Season with salt if necessary. Dish out and serve.
My next Korean recipe will be Budae Jjigae (Korean Army Stew), anyone interested please stay tune ya!
Happy Cooking!
Oh i like this! I often cook with the Japanese sweet Shoyu sauce (those meant for zaru soba) and I will add in plenty of Chinese Rice Wine for the aroma!
I didn’t use any wine in my recipe wor….
你的标题Yen Can Cook，让我想起了厨师甄文达的口头禅啦！！我前些日子在商场发现这种包装的韩食冬粉，也是很有冲动想买回家试验。韩食冬粉美味的精髓在于麻油的香气，吃起来又香又清爽。
他是”Yan Can Cook”， 如有类同，纯粹巧合，嘻嘻 😛
对，我也是加了很多麻油，搞到吃到满嘴油光 >_<
your version of japchae looks more attractive than what i’ve seen at some korean outlets! 🙂
Actually I’m not very satisfy with the flavors, minor tweaking may needed 🙂
Yea..I just found out dining in Korean restaurant can be very costly. Just started to go explore a few ones after watching too much K-drama.
Your Korean dish looks delish. something I never had before, sweet potato noodles. Interesting!
Korean food will never come cheap, really~~ This Japchae can simply cost RM20+ if order at Korean restaurant >_<
I’ve also haven’t had japchae before….does it taste closer to “toong fun” or beehoon (it looks a lot like vermicelli in its dried form).
EWEW, the texture is actualy very similar with toong fun, slippery smooth and chewy after being cooked ~
Concerning Shoeless Joe, I say yes, let him in! I’m not an expert on the Black Sox scandal, but it seems that Shoeless Joe likely didn’t understand what he was drawn into and didn’t play as if he were cheating. The culprit in that scandal was again baseball and the Sox players were victims. Now I take my cues from 8 Men Out, of course.
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