Bulgogi (Korean Barbeque Beef)

Mmmmmh, I enjoyed my mum's cooking for many, many years. Having moved away from home, I needed to learn how to cook Korean dishes asap. I experimented a little bit, knowing what the basic ingredients for Bulgogi were and voila! This is a delicious, melt-in-your-mouth beef dish, perfect with steamed rice!

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 30 mins
• Calories: 512 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• ½ onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 ½ teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, or as needed
• 1 pound beef sirloin
• 2 tablespoons Korean cooking wine
• 1 tablespoon crushed ginger
• 1 teaspoon kiwi pulp
• 4 spring onions, trimmed and chopped

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Wrap beef in plastic wrap and freeze until firm, about 1 hour.

Step 2

Cut frozen beef at an angle into very thin slices.

Step 3

Combine soy sauce, cooking wine, white sugar, ginger, garlic, and brown sugar in a large bowl. Mix in beef slices. Stir in kiwi pulp, onion, and spring onions. Cover bowl with plastic wrap; let beef marinate in the refrigerator, about 2 hours.

Step 4

Stir sesame oil into marinade. Continue marinating beef in the refrigerator, 8 hours to overnight.

Step 5

Heat vegetable oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Pour in beef and marinade; cook and stir until beef is cooked through and browned, about 5 minutes.