RECIPE: Rec: Authentic Korean Bulgogi

RECIPE:

curious1

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The recipe is from All Recipes magazine. I used New York Strip steaks and was able to find pear juice in the supermarket here. I cooked it in a skillet. Delicious. Comments in parenthesis are from the magazine editors.

* Exported for MasterCook 4 by Living Cookbook *

Authentic Korean Bulgogi

Barbecue with Seoul: Minyoung Lee, Allrecipes.com community

member, shares her mother's Korean bulgogi dish.

1 1/2 lbs beef top sirloin, thinly sliced

2 Tbs white cooking wine

1 cup pear juice (We had a tough time finding

-- pear juice, so we substituted two

-- shredded Anjou pears.)

1 tsp black pepper

1/4 cup soy sauce

1 Tbs sugar

2 Tbs toasted sesame oil

1 Tbs minced garlic

2 Tbs chopped green onion

1 Tbs sesame seeds

1/2 lb fresh mushrooms, halved (optional)

-- (Shiitake or oyster mushrooms would be

-- particularly authentic.)

1/2 onion, chopped (optional)

salt and black pepper, to taste

1. Put beef in a bowl, and add cooking wine, pear juice, and pepper. (See

our pear juice note above.) Stir to combine, and marinate for 30 minutes.

2. Stir in soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic, green onion, and sesame

seeds. Marinate in refrigerator at least 2 hours or overnight.

3. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat. (We found it more

convenient to make this on the stovetop in a large skillet—see step 4.)

4. Remove beef from marinade, and discard marinade. Put a sheet of aluminum

foil on the grill, and lay the beef slices separately, in one layer, on the

foil. Put the mushrooms and onion (if using) on another part of the foil,

and season with salt and pepper. Cook the beef slices until they are evenly

brown, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Serve with cooked mushrooms and onion. (If

you like your beef medium-rare, cook only 2 to 3 minutes per side. Because

the meat cooks quickly, we grilled the onion and mushrooms first—they took

about 6 minutes—then tossed them with the cooked meat. If you use the

skillet method, cook mushrooms and onion over high heat, stirring, 5 to 7

minutes. Transfer to a bowl, then cook beef in several batches over high

heat for about 2 minutes per side. Toss them all together, just to reheat,

for another minute before serving.)

Cooking Tip: Note from Minyoung: Serve with a handful of Korean sweet-potato

noodles. If pan-frying the beef, you can add 1/2 cup beef broth to make a

sauce to go over rice.

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This sounds really good! Any thoughts on why they would suggest 2 different marinades? Pear first

Then the soy? Just curious. Actually your curious, I'm Barb : )

Anyone have any thoughts on the note on the linked recipe of "For better results, soak in water for a few hours, changing water occasionally" ... New technique for me, I am assuming this is before the marinade?

 
Funny you should post that. I just went to Oz Korean BBQ and the bulgogi was our fave smileys/smile.gif

 
This is odd. I used to go to a Korean shop *just* for her bulgogi and it was spicy! in a happy way

I tried making it once with a dry mix package, but it was watery and soupy. Hers was flavorful in every single bite all the way through the meat.

Spicy in "my eyes slightly watered" kind of way. This recipe doesn't seem spicy at all. So...bulgogi isn't normally spicy??

She closed up shop 15 years ago and I haven't had as good a version since then.

 
I scaled the recipe to 1 pound of meat and was able to cook the strips in two batches using a large

cast iron skillet.

 
I think the pear juice is a tenderizer, no idea why it is used first. I don't know if Koreans would

use juice or smushed Asian pear. As for the beef in water, I hadn't seen that before, I got the recipe from the magazine and, if that note was there, I missed it.

 
Thanks.. The link in a post below shows it done that way

also--flat in the pan with no added oil. Definitely not stir fried.

 
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