Special Japchae Recipes

Japchae (jabchae, chapchae) is one of Korean dish that made from sweet potato noodles stir fried in sesame oil with various vegetables (typically thinly sliced carrots, onion, spinach, and mushrooms), sometimes served with beef, and flavoured with soy sauce, and sweetened with sugar.

If you want to make special japchae by your self at home, the Ingredients to make japchae are:

 - 1 Handful (4.6 oz) Cellophane Noodles

 - 1 Cup Beef

 - ! Carrot

 - " Onion

 - 3 oz Spinach

 - 3 Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

 - ! Sweet Pepper (Optional)

 - 2 Eggs (Optional)

 - Olive Oil

 - Salt & Black Pepper

Beef Ingredients:

 - " Tbsp Soy Sauce

 - " Tbsp Cooking Wine

 - 1 tsp !"#$%&!Garlic

 - 1" tsp Sugar

 - A pinch of Black Pepper

Mushroom Ingredients:

 - 1" tsp Soy Sauce

 - " tsp Sugar

 - ! tsp Minced garlic

Spinach Ingredients:

 - 1 tsp Soy Sauce

 - " tsp Sugar

Noodles Ingredients:

 - 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce

 - " Tbsp Sugar

 - 2 Tbsp Olive Oil

Seasoning Ingredients:

 - 1" Tbsp Soy Sauce

 - 2 Tbsp Sesame Oil

 - 1 Tbsp Sugar

 - 1 tsp Sesame Seeds

 - $ tsp Black Pepper

                            

And the directions or step by step to make japchae is:

1. Cut the beef thinly and add all the

ingredients for the beef. Set it aside for at

least 30 minutes.

2. Soak shiitake mushrooms in the water for 3

hours. Squeeze out the water. Remove the

stems and then slice the mushrooms thinly.

In a bowl, mix all the ingredients for the

mushrooms. Set it aside.

3. Add spinach in boiling water with some

salt to keep the color green. Boil for about 30

seconds, and then rinse in cold water.

Squeeze out the water. 

4. Mix the boiled spinach, 1 tsp of soy sauce,

and " tsp of sugar. Set it aside.

5. Cut the onion thinly. Julienne the carrot

thinly. Slice the sweet pepper thinly.

6. In a lightly oiled pan, fry the onion for 20

seconds on high. Add a little bit of salt.

7. Fry the sweet pepper and carrot for 10

seconds with a little salt.

8. Separate the egg yokes and egg whites,

and add 1 pinch of salt for each one. Fry it.

Then, slice them thinly.

9. Fry the marinated mushrooms and beef

until they are completely cooked.

10. In boiling water, add the noodles and

boil for 11 minutes. Drain the water.

11. In a nonstick pan, add the noodles and

the other ingredients for the noodles. Fry for

2 minutes until the noodles are evenly

colored by the soy sauce. Cool the noodles.

12. In a large bowl, mix all of the noodles,

vegetables, and meat.

13. Add the ingredients for the seasoning.

Mix all of the ingredients well.

14. For better color and taste, add the fried

eggs at the end. Stir gently.

If you can't follow these step, do not worry, I will show you a Video to make Japchae