Recipe · Mains and snacks
Spicy pork stir-fry, wrapped in lettuce
제육볶음 jeyuk bokkeum: thin-sliced pork in a gochugaru, soy and garlic marinade, stir-fried until the edges brown. Wrap it in lettuce with rice.
Ingredients
Pork
- 1 lb pork shoulder or belly, sliced thin
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 scallions, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
Marinade
- 3 tbsp Taekyung gochugaru, fine
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp gochujang (optional)
- 1 tbsp rice wine or mirin (optional)
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- A pinch of black pepper
To serve
- Steamed rice
- Lettuce leaves
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Method
Mix the marinade
Stir the gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, gochujang, rice wine, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and pepper together in a bowl.
Marinate
Add the pork and onion and mix with your hands until every slice is red. Leave it for 10 minutes, or overnight in the fridge.
Stir-fry
Heat the oil in a big pan over medium-high heat. Add the pork and onion and stir-fry for 6 to 8 minutes, until the pork is cooked and the edges start to brown.
Finish
Toss in the scallions for 1 minute. Serve it with rice and lettuce: wrap a piece of pork and a little rice in a leaf and eat it in one bite.
Not too dark
Gochugaru can scorch in a hot pan. If the pan looks dry, add a splash of water.
On the side
Spicy cucumber salad takes 20 minutes and cools each bite.
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Ready to cook?
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