Korean Beef Hot Pot Bulgogi Jeongol Food

BULGOGI JEONGOL (HOT POT)

Steps:

• Mix all the marinade ingredients in a large bowl. If using packaged pre-sliced meat, run a knife through it to cut into smaller pieces. Add the meat to the marinade. Toss gently, with hands, to mix everything well. Marinate while preparing the other ingredients.
• Put 5 cups of water and the broth vegetables in a medium size pot. Bring it to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and continue to boil for about 15 minutes. Discard the vegetables. Season with the soup soy sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
• Cut the cabbage and carrot into thin, bite size pieces. Thinly slice the onion and mushrooms. Cut the scallions and minari in similar lengths.
• Using a wide, shallow pot, neatly arrange the bulgogi and vegetables in clusters. Add the optional noodles. Pour in 2 to 3 cups of broth and cook over high heat, separating the bulgogi pieces. Depending on the pot size, you can cook in two batches or add more broth and any remaining ingredients while eating if you're cooking at the table.

BULGOGI JEONGOL

Steps:

• For the dasima broth: Combine the dasima and 8 cups cold water in a large pot. Let sit until the dasima swells until doubled in size and the water turns slightly green-yellow, about 30 minutes. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; boil until the dasima starts to foam around the sides, 1 to 3 minutes. Discard the dasima, then add the radish and simmer until the radish is soft enough to be easily pierced with a fork, about 25 minutes. Turn off the heat and stir in the guk-ganjang and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Discard the radish; you should have about 4 cups broth. Set aside.
• For the bulgogi: Whisk the soy sauce, sugar, mirin, sesame oil, garlic and few grinds of black pepper together in a large bowl until combined and most of the sugar is dissolved. Add the beef to the marinade and toss until the beef is well coated. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to 8 hours.
• For the assembly: Soak the dangmyeon noodles in a large bowl of lukewarm to warm water until they bend around your hands nicely when lifted, 20 to 30 minutes. Drain in a colander and set aside while preparing the other ingredients.
• To assemble the dish, place the onion over the bottom of a 12-inch high-sided skillet or shallow pot with a lid. Follow with the soaked dangmyeon noodles. Then add as much or little of the bulgogi, oyster mushrooms, shiitakes, tofu, enoki, carrot, crown daisy, minari, cabbage and scallions as you like to the pot (pack the ingredients in as the mushrooms will cook down). Carefully pour the prepared dasima broth in; you can start off with 3 cups or add all 4 cups of the both for a soupier version.
• Cover with a tight-fitting lid. Bring to a boil over high heat and let cook until the vegetables are tender and cooked through and the bulgogi turns brown, 2 to 4 minutes. (If you want more broth, add some water and season with salt.) Serve immediately with rice on the side. And don't forget to dig down to the dangmyeon noodles on the bottom!

KOREAN BEEF HOT POT, BULGOGI JEONGOL

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients for the sauce in a medium size mixing bowl and stir well until sugar has completely dissolved.
• Bring thinly sliced beef and pour half of the sauce. Mix well and set aside to marinate the beef. You could marinate for over night but it's not necessary. Let it marinate while you're preparing the veggies and other ingredients will be enough time!
• Drain konnyaku noodles and rinse under hot water for 1 to 2 minutes then drain.
• Spread sliced onion on bottom of the shallow large pot. Arrange the rest of the vegetables, tofu and konnyaku noodles in the pot and leave the center.
• Place the bulgogi in the center and pour the rest of the sauce around, but not on top of the bulgogi. Pour water from the side of the pot and sprinkle some sesame seeds right on top to garnish. Cover with a lid. We usually serve this jeongol (hot pot) to the dinner table, and eat while it's cooking. So if you have a portable gas stove, please do so! It's so much more fun!
• Bring it to boil over high heat and when it starts boil, start move around the bulgogi in the middles so the beef will cook evenly. Keep boiling for 5 minutes or until bulgogi is fully cooked and vegetables are soften. It's ready to eat! Enjoy!