🍜 Japchae

Name: Japchae
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: South Korea · Korean Peninsula
Ingredients: 200 g sweet potato glass noodles; 200 g beef sirloin, cut into thin strips; 200 g spinach; 1 carrot, cut into matchsticks; 150 g shiitake mushrooms, sliced; 1 onion, sliced, and 2 garlic cloves; 4 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tbsp sugar; 2 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Origin: South Korea · Korean Peninsula

400kcal

per serving · 250 g

160kcal

per 100 g

15 gProtein6 g / 100 g

15 gFat6 g / 100 g

55 gCarbs22 g / 100 g

Japchae is a Korean dish of chewy, glossy sweet potato glass noodles stir-fried with strips of beef, spinach, carrot and mushrooms. Each ingredient is cooked separately, then everything is tossed together with soy sauce, a little sugar and fragrant sesame oil. The result is savoury-sweet and colourful, served warm or at room temperature as a side dish or main at holidays and celebrations.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Not vegetarianbecause of: beef

Not veganbecause of: beef

Contains glutenbecause of: soy sauce

Not keto22 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Soy ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

glass noodlesbeefspinachcarrotmushroomssoy saucesesame oil

Recipe

4 servings40 min

Ingredients

200 g sweet potato glass noodles
200 g beef sirloin, cut into thin strips
200 g spinach
1 carrot, cut into matchsticks
150 g shiitake mushrooms, sliced
1 onion, sliced, and 2 garlic cloves
4 tbsp soy sauce and 1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

Cook the noodles in boiling water for 6 minutes, drain, rinse and toss with 1 tbsp sesame oil and 1 tbsp soy sauce.
Blanch the spinach for 30 seconds, squeeze dry and season with a pinch of salt.
Marinate the beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce and the garlic for 10 minutes.
Stir-fry the onion, carrot and mushrooms in the vegetable oil, then the beef, each until just cooked.
Toss everything in the pan with the noodles, the remaining soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil until hot and glossy.

How to make it lighter

Double the spinach, carrot and mushrooms and use fewer noodles for a lighter bowl.
Measure the sesame oil; 1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal.
Use lean beef and stir-fry in a non-stick pan with a minimum of oil.

History

Japchae is usually traced to the Korean royal court of the early seventeenth century, when it was a dish of mixed vegetables without noodles. Glass noodles were added in the twentieth century, and today japchae is a fixture of birthdays, weddings and holiday tables.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →