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Here’s a first installment of many cooking posts to come. Karen’s office planned a potluck at work the next day. She decided to cook a popular Korean dish called Japchae. Karen is quite the chef and has a passion when it comes to food. She loves spending her free time buried in cook books and is glued to Food Network Television. Thats all good, cuz I love to eat! With her magic touch, she was able to whip up the Japchae in no time.

As per my previous post, my lovely Karen got me the Olympus E-500 for Christmas. I finally have some decent shots to showoff the food that she made here.

What is Japchae?

Japchae (also spelled jabchae or chapchae) is a Korean dish made from sweet potato flour cellophane noodles (called dang myeon), stir fried in sesame oil with sliced beef and various vegetables (typically thinly-sliced carrots, onion, spinach, and mushrooms), flavoured with soy sauce, and sweetened with sugar. It is usually served garnished with sesame seeds and slivers of chili.

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Recipe Ingredients (Yield: 4 Servings)

• 12 oz noodle (Dang Myun)

• 4 oz beef

• 5 shitake mushrooms or Chinese black mushrooms (substituted here with white mushrooms)

• 1 carrot

• 1 onion

• 1 egg (optional)

• 1/3 lbs spinach

• 5 tbs oil

• 1 tbs sesame seed oil

• 2 tbs soy sauce

• Salt & black pepper (pinch)

• Sesame seed (pinch)

• 1 tbs minced garlic

• 1 tbs chopped green onion

Cooking Directions

1. Soak mushrooms in water for 15 minutes. Cut off stems. Cut mushrooms into thin strips.

2. Cut beef into thin strips and marinate it with the mushrooms in a seasoning of: soy sauce, sugar, minced garlic, sesame seed oil, chopped green onions, and a pinch of ground pepper.

3. Cut carrots and onion into thin strips (julienne).

4. Cook spinach in boiling water for about two minutes. Cool spinach in running water. Squeeze the water out of the spinach. Season the spinach slightly with salt and sesame seed oil.

5. Batter and fry the egg in a pan with a pinch of salt. Once cooked and cooled, cut the egg into thin slices.

6. Cook the noodles in boiling water for about 2-4 minutes or until soft (You may want to cut the noodles in half before hand if they are too long). Rinse in cold water and drain.

7. Start cooking the beef and mushrooms with a bit of oil.

8. When beef is cooked add carrot, onion, spinach, and noodles and stir-fry.

9. When vegetables are cooked, add the sliced egg and use salt and soy sauce to season the dish to your taste.

10. Put it all in a dish and sprinkle some sesame seeds for the final touch.

11. Can be served hot or cold.

Recipe via trifood.com

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