Green Pepper Japchae (Stir fried green pepper and assorted vegetables): Japchae is a traditional Korean party food. Korean traditional holidays would not be complete without this dish, a mixture of healthy vegetables and potato starch noodle. But today I gave this japchae recipe a little twist to the traditional offering, so try this new version of Korean traditional fare.
Ingredients:
200g beef
1 large green pepper, or 4 green chili pepper (mild ones)
1/2 medium onion
30g bamboo shoots (canned)
3 cloves of garlic
1 small piece of ginger
1 stalk of green onion
Cooking oil
1Tbsp cooking rice wine
1Tbsp soy sauce
Sesame seed oil1
1/2Tbsp oyster sauce
Marinating sauce
1Tbsp soy sauce
1Tbsp sugar
1tsp sesame seed oil
1Tbsp minced green onion
1tsp minced garlic
1Tbsp cooking rice wine
Direction:
1. Slice beef into thin strips, about 3-4 millimeters-thick. Marinate beef in the marinating sauce for about 30 minutes
2. Slice onion and bamboo shoot in the same thickness as beef.
3. Take out the seeds in green onion and slice it into long thin strips too.
4. Slice garlic and ginger into thin strips as well. Green onion should be first cut lengthwise and then sliced into long thin strips.
5. Heat up wok on high heat. Add a tablespoon of cooking oil to coat the pan and put in the sliced garlic, ginger and green onions to add aroma to the oil.
6. Before garlic, ginger and green onions get too crispy or burned, put marinated beef and cook until the outside is done. Then add sliced onion and stir fry until onion becomes transparent.
7. When onion is done, season the meat and onion with a tablespoon of cooking wine and soy sauce. After that, put in the remaining ingredients, green pepper and bamboo shoot, and stir fry them until they are done. Before turning off the heat, don’t forget to add oyster sauce and sesame seed oil and stir until mixed well.
Tips:
1. All ingredients should be sliced and ready before stir-frying, because speed is the key in making japchae. When cooking, be sure to use high heat because the nutrients in vegetables may be destroyed when overcooked.
2. If you add egg white and potato starch when marinating beef, it helps retain juice and tenderize the meat.
3. Some of the vegetables that can go well with this type of japchae are carrots and mushrooms (especially black, enoki and oyster mushrooms).
