Japchae

Serves 1
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Directions

  1. 1Prepare the vegetables, including the carrots, shiitake mushrooms, red bell peppers, yellow onion and spinach.
  2. 2Blanch the spinach for a few minutes, then rinse it off and squeeze to drain.
  3. 3Chop the spinach.
  4. 4Add the noodles to the same water that the spinach was blanched in.
  5. 5Boil noodles for about ten minutes.
  6. 6Drain and rinse the noodles with cold water, and cut them up with scissors.
  7. 7Add sesame oil to the noodles.
  8. 8Cook a little bit of bulgogi.
  9. 9In the same pan that you cooked the bulgogi in, add the vegetables.
  10. 10Make the sauce, starting with soy sauce, then add brown sugar, sesame oil, water, garlic, sesame seeds and freshly cracked black pepper.
  11. 11Taste and adjust the sauce, if needed.
  12. 12Add the noodles, vegetables, bulgogi and spinach to a big bowl, and then add the sauce.
  13. 13Mix.

Ingredients

  • carrots
  • shitake mushrooms
  • red bell peppers
  • yellow onion
  • spinach
  • sweet potato glass noodle
  • 1.5 cup soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons sesame oil
  • 0.25 cup water
  • 2.5 tablespoons garlic
  • 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
  • black pepper
  • bulgogi