Korean Glass noodles/ Japchae/ 잡채

Was at Korean Supermart the other day and came across this pack of sweet potato glass noodle. Heh heh, decided to buy 1 packet back and try making Japchae (잡채). This is pretty similar to our chinese tang hoon （冬粉) but more springy.

Again I modify the receipe a bit to suit to my liking and of course what is available in my kitchen.

Ingredients:

Half a carrot, thinly sliced
Quater of a cucumber, thinly sliced
50g of beef (Thinly sliced and marinated with tablespoon of sesame oil and pepper)
3 Japanese mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 black fungus, thinly sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tablespoon of dark soy sauce
100g of Korean glass noodles
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of sesame oil
1 egg, fried and cut into slices

Sliced marinated beef

Took me quite a while to slice them

Supposed to add chinese spinach but the markets/ super markets sell by a big bunch, since I have no other use of it, I decided not to add it in.

Cooking Method:

1). Bring a pot of water to boil, cook the the glass noodles for about 7mins. Drain the water and rinse the noodles under running water.

Water drained

2). Heat up the frying pan and stir fry the garlic till light brown

3). Add in the carrots, cucumber, Japanese mushroo, black fungus and lastly the beef.

4). Stir fry for 2 mins, add in a tablespoon of dark soy sauce.

5). Dish out

6). In the frying pan, stir fry the noodle with 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce and 1 table spoon of sesame oil.

7). Add in the beef/veggies/egg mixture and stir fry for 2 min to mix well and it is ready to be serve.

Verdict:

The receipe I referred to had advised to cook the ingredients separately 1 by 1. It is said to be the correct way of preparing Japchae and at the end, you just mixed everything together in a big bowl.

Japchae/잡채

It proves to be too time consuming for me as I spent quite a big deal of time cutting up the ingredients.

Thus, I chose the easy way out by stir frying everything together at 1 go and add in the glass noodles finally so as to serve the dish hot.

Seriously, I didn't find anything wrong with my cooking method and the noodles taste as springy though it was boiled and then stir fried. Not sure what would be the results if I strictly followed the cooking instructions.

Also I should add toaste white sesame to this dish and again because I don't forsee much use of it, I did not buy. Hehe.

It's a simple dish to prepare and I liked it pretty well. It is also quite a healthy dish if I didn't add in the beef. As we ate it as a side dish, there are some leftover and I heat it up for dinner the next day. It can be a dish that is cooked to be stored in the fridge for next day lunch or dinner.

I shall attempt another round when I have the time. Perhaps should really try to cook everything separately and then mixing them together.