Korean Stir Fried Glass Noodle~ Japchae 잡채

May 2018. Japchae is not difficult to make, though it is a little bit time consuming as traditionally it required each ingredients to be cook separately before mix all of them together. However it is okay too to cook all ingredient together in one pot just like our Chinese stir-fried glass noodle. Today I am going make Japchae for husband's birthday meal so I am trying out Baek Song Seng's Japchae recipe using the Man-nun Ganjang (all purpose soy sauce). It turns out just as nice as the normal Japchae I made, and it reduces more than half of time I need when I made Japchae last time.

Ingredients:

150gram - Korean Glass Noodle

1 Onion

1 Carrot

1 Green onion

3-4 shiitake mushrooms

1 Tbsp - Minced Garlic 

6 Tbsp - All purpose soy sauce 

2 Tbsp - Sugar

1.5 Tbsp - Sesame oil

Black Pepper few dash

Some Sesame seed 

How to cook:

Step 1

In a pot, bring the water to boil, then put in the glass noodles and boil it for about 10 minutes until it turn soft, drain away the water and set aside. While the glass noodle is boiling, slice the onion, carrot and shitake mushroom into stick and thinly chopped the green onion. 

Step 2

Add cooking oil into a frying pan, first add in the half of the chopped green onions and stir-fry for few minutes to turn the oil into green onion fragrant oil. Follow by add in the sliced ​​onions, carrots, and mushrooms to continue the stir fry, sprinkle a few dash of black pepper, stir fry until all the veggie turn soft and cook then remove it from pot and set aside.

Step 3

Heat up the frying pan with a teaspoon of cooking oil, add in the add the remaining half of chopped green onions and 1 teaspoon of minced garlic, stir-fry for few minutes to make the fragrant oil. Add 6 tablespoons of all-purpose soy sauce and 2 tablespoons of sugar, bring to a boil briefly to make marinate sauce for the glass noodle.

Step 4. 

Once the sauce start boiling, add in the cooked glass noodle into the pan, stir-fry the glass noodle with sauce until the glass noodle evenly colored with the sauce, off the fire, drizzle around 1.5 tablespoons of sesame oil on the glass noodle and mix well. 

Mix in the vegetables that were stir-fried earlier onto the glass noodle and mix all well then it is done.

Remember to sprinkle some sesame seeds before serve. You may adjust the saltiness of the Japchae by adding little more soya sauce, sesame oil or salt according to your liking. Japchae usually taste better after cold down than just cooked.