Today Dinner Menu: Jjajangbop (Jjajang rice)

 

Today dinner menu: Jjajangbob (Jjajang rice)

(Rice in black bean paste sauce with pork and vegetables)

😀Sizzling 👀

As I posted the last time, I cooked Jjajangbop for our dinner.

I personally prefer rice instead of noodles.

It's your own personal taste. 

If you prefer noodles, you can buy noodles in an Asian market,

or you can make the noddles with flour.

(There are a lot of recipe in Youtube.)

Next time, when I make homemade noodles,

I will post it.

That's black bean paste sauce.

Step1: Prepare the ingredients; pork, potatoes, carrots, 

cabbages and onions.

Instead of pork, you can also use seafood (In Korea, seafood Jjajang is also very popular) or you can use beef.

But Jjajangmyeon goes awfully well with pork.

Step 2: Chop the veggies as shown in the photo above.

Step 3: In a pan, place oil and heat.

(In my case, I always use olive oil.)

When it is ready, put the vegetables first and stir-fry them.

(Medium heat.)

Step 4: When the vegetables are half done, mix the pork together, and add some seasonings.

 

In my case, I put a pinch of salt along with pepper (enough), 

and a little bit of red wine (one table spoon) for the pork.

The black bean paste sauce is already salty enough.

If you like, you could add one spoon of honey.

Step 5: Stir them until the vegetables fully done.

When they are done, put them aside.

Step 6: In another pan (maybe Wok will be better), 

put enough olive oil. (5 to 7 table spoons)

When the heat is ready, place the sauce and stir-fry quickly, and mix them well.

(Otherwise, it might make the sauce burn.)

Step 7: Now mix (No.6)  and (No. 5)

Step 8: Mix them well for five more minutes to get it more flavoured.

(If it is too sticky or too salty, you could add some water 

but not too much.)

Pickled radish (Danmuji in Korean)

Step 9: I bought this pickled radish in a Korean market.

This is a typical Korean side dish,

served with Jjajangmyeon in restaurants in Korea.

There are so many dish (more than 10), made with radish.

I would like to introduce about this ingredient, radish one day.

(Typical dinner table in a korean family)

Now the food is ready to eat. 😍😃

It's getting cold and so, I made Oden soup (fish cake ball with radish).

Some Korean people always need soup along with his/her meal.

In Korea, we always eat rice with soup and some side dishes, which is called Banchan.

I hope you try this one day if you wish to try something new.

If you have any question concerning this recipe, please feel free to leave a question or a comment.