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Japchae is deliciously chewy potato starch noodles cooked with julienned vegetables which have been lightly cooked in sesame and soy sauce. Japchae is a popular Korean dish for parties.

Serving size: serves 4-6

Ingredients

100g lean beef
200g “Japchae” sweet potato noodle
1 onion cut into thin strips
1 carrot cut into thin strips
1 green capsicum cut into thin strips
6 “Pyogo” shiitake mushrooms, soaked and cut into thin strips
1 egg, white and yolk separated, each beaten, fried thinly and cut into strips
Salt
Vegetable oil

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A video recipe on how to make Korean Dol Sot Bibimbap, from SBS Food Safari show. This is the most delicious mix of beef, rice and slivered vegetables which have been blanched and dressed with sesame oil and soy sauce for extra flavour, all cooked in a stone bowl to make the rice at the sides of the bowl golden and crispy. To eat, mix the whole egg and pepper paste through and eat – with a spoon.

Ingredients

2 small carrots
1 small white radish
2 small zucchini
1 bunch spinach
1 bunch yellow bean sprouts
1 cup of dried mushrooms
400g scotch fillet beef
4 eggs, yolk only
Korean chilli paste*
3 cloves garlic, crushed
4 tbsp sesame oil
Soy sauce
Salt and pepper
4 cups hot cooked white rice (short grain)* (see method at Step 1)
4 dol sot stone bowls*

* All these items are readily available at any Korean grocery store.

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