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One-pan Japchae

Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Korean
Keyword: Japchae
Servings: 2 people
Author: Taeyeon @ 1-2-3 Kimchi

Ingredients

  • 60 g dried glass noodles
  • 2 ea. dried shiitake mushroom
  • 4 ea. dried black fungus mushroom or dried wood ear mushroom
  • ½ cup sliced onion ½ medium-sized onion
  • ½ cup julienned carrot ⅔ medium-sized carrot
  • ½ ea. red bell pepper cut into matchsticks
  • 1 cup spinach

Japchae sauce

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp water
  • ½ tbsp sugar or 1 tbsp of agave syrup
  • 1 tsp minced garlic 1 medium clove
  • 1 tsp chopped green onion ⅓ stalk
  • ½ tbsp sesame oil
  • black pepper to taste

For cooking

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil (any vegetable oil with high smoking point and neutral taste: avocado, grapeseed, rice bran, canola, sunflower, soy, etc.)
  • ¼ tsp salt to season onion & carrot while stir-frying

For garnish

  • ½ tsp toasted sesame seeds

Instructions

  • Add dried shiitake mushroom, dried black fungus mushroom, and dried glass noodles in a container. Fill it up with water and keep in the fridge overnight to rehydrate the ingredients.
  • Cut rehydrated noodles in half.
  • Squeeze water out of rehydrated shiitake mushrooms. Slice the shiitake mushrooms thinly and put it into a bowl.
  • Cut rehydrated black fungus mushroom into small pieces.
  • In a bowl, add "Japchae sauce" ingredients together and stir well.
  • Take ½ tablespoon of the sauce and mix with sliced shiitake mushroom. Set aside.
  • Cut & slice the vegetables: slice onion thinly. Julienne the carrot. And cut red bell pepper into matchsticks.
  • Rinse and drain spinach.

To stir-fry

  • Heat a pan over medium-high heat. Coat with 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
  • Add sliced onion and julienned carrot. Season with ¼ tsp of salt. Stir-fry for 1-2 min. until onion is semi-translucent and the carrot starts to release the orange hue.
  • Add red bell pepper and marinated shiitake mushroom. Stir-fry for another min.
  • Add glass noodles, Japchae sauce, and black fungus mushroom all at the same time. Cook until the glass noodle is translucent.
  • Turn off the heat. Add spinach, stir & cook with the residual heat until the spinach is wilted.
  • If desired, add a drizzle of sesame oil and mix together.
  • Garnish with toasted sesame seeds and serve.

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Notes

★For gluten free, substitute soy sauce with tamari or gluten-free soy sauce