Korean Glass Noodles (chapjae or jabcha)
Korean Glass Noodles (chapjae or jabcha)

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, korean glass noodles (chapjae or jabcha). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have korean glass noodles (chapjae or jabcha) using 22 ingredients and 34 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Korean Glass Noodles (chapjae or jabcha):
  1. Make ready Meat
  2. Prepare 4-6 Oz. Meat
  3. Make ready Handful sliced dried shiitake mushrooms (optional)
  4. Make ready 2-3 cloves garlic
  5. Get 1 Tbl. Sugar
  6. Get 2 Tbl. Soy sauce
  7. Prepare 2 Tbl. Sesame seeds
  8. Prepare Main
  9. Prepare 1 egg
  10. Prepare 2-4 stalks green onion
  11. Get 1/4 medium onion
  12. Get 4 Oz. Button mushrooms
  13. Prepare 1 bunch spinach
  14. Get 1 Bell pepper (red or yellow)
  15. Make ready 1 medium carrot
  16. Prepare Soy sauce
  17. Take Sesame oil
  18. Take 4 Oz. Glass noodles
  19. Make ready Salt
  20. Get Ground Black pepper
  21. Prepare Garnish
  22. Prepare Sesame seeds

It is the number one sought after dish particularly during the Korean festive holidays (e.g. Korean japchae (or chapchae) glass noodles are one of my fave dishes and super easy to prepare. The beauty of these noodles is that the sauce, a combination of soy sauce, sugar, and sesame oil gets tossed into the noodles after they're done boiling and vegetables are sauteed. Simple to prepare, super delicious, and healthy.

Steps to make Korean Glass Noodles (chapjae or jabcha):
  1. Soak dried shiitake mushrooms according to package instructions.
  2. When mushrooms are soft, drain
  3. In a small bowl, add drained shiitake mushrooms
  4. Cut meat to bite sized pieces
  5. Add to mushroon bowl
  6. Clean and chop garlic, add to meat bowl
  7. Add rest of meat ingredients to bowl, mix, cover, set aside
  8. Break egg into small bowl, mix it up with a pinch of salt
  9. Set a skillet on medium heat. When it is hot, turn off heat. Put egg into skillet in a thin pancake
  10. Cook about 30 seconds, flip, cook 30 seconds, remove, set aside
  11. Wash, clean, trim, spinach, thaw if frozen
  12. Cook or blanch spinach until just wilted, or use frozen spinach. Remove water by squeezing.
  13. Take your cooled spinach, cut it in half, then across that into thirds, makes it easier to mix, eat, etc.
  14. Using a large bowl, this will be the final bowl everything ends up in, put spinach in, add a splash of soy sauce and sesame oil, say a teaspoon of each, mix
  15. I like to mix the bowl contents as I go along, I think it is easier and results in a well mixed end product.
  16. Chop green onions, if the whites are large, split in half lengthwise, cut about 1 1/2 inches long
  17. Finely slice onion, break apart rings. I like to make 1/8 inch slices, then quarter those
  18. Add oil to skillet as needed for each step, typically doesn't take much, add onions on medium heat. Pinch of salt.
  19. Cook onions until just translucent. Grind of black pepper.
  20. Add to bowl with spinach. Mix in.
  21. Cut carrots into match sticks. Hopefully you are better at it than I am.
  22. Now, I am not fan of Bell peppers, so I chose to use Anaheims instead, another very mild pepper.
  23. Cut Bell pepper into match sticks.
  24. Add carrots to skillet on medium heat. Pinch of salt. Cook about 2 minutes.
  25. Add Bell pepper to carrots, pinch of salt, cook until done to your liking. Topically 3-6 minutes. Add to bowl.
  26. These are the noodles I am using this time
  27. This is what they look like dried
  28. Cook noodles about this time, depending on the noodles you are using. Rinse and add splash of sesame oil and soy sauce. I like to take scissors to them to cut them in half at this point. Mix, add to bowl.
  29. Slice button mushrooms, add to skillet. Typically cook until browned. Add a pinch of salt, grind of pepper. Add to bowl when done. Mix.
  30. Add meat to skillet, cook until just done. Add to bowl. Mix.
  31. Add sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil. About 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Mix well.
  32. Fold egg "pancake" in half, thinly sliced across into ribbons. Add to bowl, mix in.
  33. Typically this is a "room temperature" dish. So if you were concerned about keeping it warm, don't bother.
  34. Garnish with sesame seeds. Serve

Taste, and add more aminos or soy sauce, if desired. Japchae is a simple Korean noodle dish jam-packed with a rainbow of vegetables and accented with a hit of flank steak. Japchae is made with Korean potato starch glass noodles, which are surprisingly light, and completely gluten-free! More water is better than too little since the glass noodles soak quite a bit of water. Rinse in cold water and drain.

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