Bulgogi. Bulgogi can be cooked with vegetables over a stove (in a pan / skillet) or it can be cooked on a bbq grill without any vegetables. As you can imagine, they will give slightly different flavors. Pan fried bulgogi (with vegetables) will naturally release some juice, which you can use to mix with a bowl of steamed rice.
It would be best on an outdoor grill but I don't have one.
Your mother makes GREAT food - thanks!
For this basic bulgogi recipe, cutting the meat into very thin strips allows it to absorb the hot-sweet-salty marinade in minutes, not hours.
You can have Bulgogi using 26 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Bulgogi
- Prepare of For the bulgogi:.
- Prepare 260 of – 300g beef fillet or sirloin.
- Prepare 4 of large garlic cloves.
- It's 1 of ripe Asian pear, peeled and chopped.
- It's 1 of onion, finely chopped.
- Prepare 2 cm of piece of ginger root, finely chopped.
- Prepare 1 of scallion, chopped.
- You need 2 tbsp. of dark soy sauce.
- It's 1 tbsp. of toasted sesame oil.
- Prepare 1 tbsp. of sake.
- Prepare 1 tbsp. of Shaoxing wine or dry sherry.
- You need 1 tbsp. of light brown sugar or honey.
- You need 1/2 tsp. of black pepper.
- It's of sesame seeds, toasted, to sprinkle at the end.
- It's of To serve:.
- Prepare of Romaine or Cos lettuce leaves, or.
- You need of lightly toasted pita bread.
- It's of cooked rice (optional).
- Prepare of jalapeno chili, deseeded and finely sliced.
- It's sticks of carrot shredded into.
- It's 2-3 of radishes, shredded into sticks.
- You need of cucumber slices or sticks.
- Prepare of For the spiced mayo:.
- You need 4-5 tbsp. of full fat mayonnaise.
- It's 1 tsp of light soy sauce.
- You need 2 tbsp. of hot chilli sauce, ideally Sriracha.
Bulgogi is made from thin slices of sirloin or other prime cuts of beef. Ribeye is also commonly used due to its tenderness and easy to cut complexion. In addition to beef, chicken and pork bulgogi are also one of the most common types of variations used to prepare the dish. Pork belly, or samyeopsal in Korean, is a popular cut for pork bulgogi.
Bulgogi step by step
- Place the meat in the freezer for 1 – 2 hours to firm it up. In the meantime process the garlic, pear, onion and ginger to smooth puree..
- Slice the beef against the grain thinly, about 4-5mm. Place it in a bowl or a zip lock bag together with the puree; add the other bulgogi ingredients except the sesame seeds and mix in well, stirring the meat around in the bowl or squishing it about in the bag. Chill for at least an hour and up to overnight..
- Prepare the spiced mayo by mixing all the ingredients together in a small bowl. When you’re ready to cook prepare the lettuce and garnishes so that everyone can build their own bulgogi parcel or kebab..
- Heat up a cast iron pan or a heavy skillet over high heat. Transfer the meat into a colander and shake it about to get rid of some liquid. When the pan is hot, add the meat with the remaining marinade and stir fry until most liquid has vanished and the meat starts to brown around the edges. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and keep the meat hot. Toast the pitas..
- To eat, either load a pita, kebab style, with torn lettuce, meat, garnishes and sauce; or place some meat, rice and garnishes on a lettuce leaf, fold in and wrap up the edges to form a small parcel. The lettuce parcel should be eaten in one bite!.
Bulgogi -My Korean grandmother's family beef bulgogi recipe is made of thinly sliced beef (usually rib-eye), pre- soaked in bulgogi marinade. Bulgogi is grilled on a barbeque or pan-fried. Tender caramelized beef bulgogi tastes so amazing! This bulgogi recipe is authentic and best served with steamed rice. Bulgogi, a Korean classic of marinated grilled beef, is easy to make and fun to eat; it's no wonder it is one of the country's most successful culinary exports As with most Korean barbecue, the meat is seasoned with sesame and scallion, and has ripe pears in the marinade to tenderize the meat and add a characteristic sweetness Round, pale yellow Asian pears are traditional, but Bosc pears.
