2009-05-21 Thursday - Korean food!

Bulgogi

• ingredients: shaved steak, asian pear, garlic, onion, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, honey, rice wine
  
• whizzed up marinade in little chopper (made slightly more than half of recipe from http://www.maangchi.com/recipes/bulgogi-and-bulgogi-stew)
  
• squished it into 2 lbs of shaved steak
• marinated for 2+ hours
• cooked on iron comal
• Papa said it was the best bulgogi he had ever eaten :)
  

Oi Muchim (Spicy Cucumber Salad)

• ingredients: cucumber, red onion, red pepper, asian pear, rice wine vinegar, kochukaru (red pepper flakes), garlic
  
• grated cucumbers into slices
• added
  
• ~6 cloves minced garlic
  
• ~1/3 thinly sliced red pepper
• ~1/4 red onion, very thinly sliced
• ~2/3 asian pear (leftover from bulgogi)
• seasoned with soy sauce and rice wine vinegar (1:1) and kochukaru

Kongnamul Muchim (Seasoned Bean Sprouts)

• ingredients: bean sprouts, spring onion, sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, white pepper
  
• boiled bean sprouts
• sliced spring onion and put in bottom of bowl
• put warm (drained) bean sprouts on top
• mixed in sesame oil and soy sauce (1:1) and some salt and white pepper
  
• next time try adding kochukaru

Stir-fried Gai-lan

• ingredients: gailan, garlic, leftover bulgogi marinade
• cut flower ends off gailan and chop up stems
• cook stems with garlic
• add flower ends
• add leftover bulgogi marinade