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Dak Galbi (Chef Paik's Version)
Spicy stir-fried chicken with cabbage, potato, and rice cakes in a bold multi-purpose gochujang marinade. Finish by stir-frying udon in the leftover sauce.
base recipe: 3 servings
#korean#chicken#stir-fry
ingredients
servings
3
Stir-fry
Multi-purpose marinade
instructions
- 1.Make the multi-purpose marinade: in a large bowl, combine the gochujang, brown sugar, coarse chili powder, cooking wine, dark soy sauce, and crushed garlic and mix evenly.
- 2.Chop the chicken leg into edible sizes.
- 3.Chop the onion into 2 cm pieces. Cut the potato 1 cm thick and into 1 cm strips.
- 4.Cut the cabbage into large pieces.
- 5.Cut the green part of the green onions into 3 cm pieces. Halve the white stalks and cut into 3 cm pieces.
- 6.Wash the garlic and trim the ends.
- 7.Trim the shishito stalks and cut them in half. Chop the hot pepper into small pieces.
- 8.In a large bowl, mix the chicken, potatoes, onions, cabbage, hot pepper, shishito peppers, garlic, and 1 cup of the multi-purpose marinade.
- 9.Once seasoned evenly, mix in the green onions, then the black pepper and sesame oil.
- 10.Plate the marinated chicken and sprinkle with ground sesame seeds.
- 11.In a frying pan, add the marinated mix and cook slowly over medium heat.
- 12.When the marinade starts to burn, add water and stir-fry.
- 13.Use scissors to cut large pieces of chicken into bites.
- 14.Taste, then add the rice cake and cook.
- 15.Parboil the udon in boiling water, drain well, and stir-fry it with the chicken to finish.
revision history
- — An earlier, non-Paik version didn't land — the sauce came out too orange and thin and the flavors were a bit off.