This recipe has a lot of ingredients but it is so worth all the prep work. It is a type of Korean noodles that looks complicated because it has so many ingredients but once you break it down, it is fairly simple. Kiara really loves these noodles because it is soft and tasty. It has become a fairly regular menu item in our household because it is kid-friendly. You can eat this by itself or to be enjoyed with some Korean BBQ.
Ingredients
200g Korean potato starch noodles
1 Small carrot or 4-5 mini carrots (julienne)
1 Onion
2 Green onions
100g of slice rib eye beef
4 dried shiitake (soak in hot water)
150g baby spinach
Salt and Pepper
2.5 tbsp Kalbi marination (Optional)
Sauce
3 tbsp Light soy sauce
2.5 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Sesame oil
2-3 cloves of Garlic (minced)
2 tsp roasted sesame seeds
Instructions
1. In a small bowl combine all the sauce ingredients and mix until sugar is dissolve.
2. In a medium bowl marinate beef with Kalbi marination if you don’t have kalbi marination you can use 1 tbsp of the sauce from step 1.
3. Julienne carrots, thinly slice onions, cut green onion into about 1 inch in length and thinly slice shiitake mushrooms.
4. In a medium pan drizzle some vegetable oil over medium heat. Stir fry onion and carrot for 2 minutes. Next, add the green onions and season with salt and pepper. Don’t over cook them, we want the vegetable to have a little bit of crisp left in them. Once done move them into a large bowl.
5. In the same pan, add some more vegetable oil and stir fry the shiitake mushroom until golden brown. Next, add the marinated beef. This beef will cook fast because it is thinly sliced. Once done move them into a large bowl.
6. Bring water to boil in a large pot. Once water is boiled blanch the spinach and remove from water and set it aside. Once cooled, squeeze the water out of them and separate them so that they are not lumped together and put them in a large bowl.
7. In the same pot, cook the noodles according to the package direction. Once the noodle is cooked, rinse in cold water and drain. At this point I would cut up the noodle into 6-8 inches in length with a scissor.
8. In the same pan that you used to cook the beef in, over medium heat add a little bit more oil and toss in the noodle. Stir fried until the noodle is a bit sticky and not much water left then move them into a large bowl.
9. Pour all the sauce over the ingredients and mix well with either your hand or tongs. You can add more soy sauce if you want it a little more salty but only add 1/2 tsp at a time.
