Korean Japchae recipe - ingredients, nutrition and when to eat it
Japchae is made by stir-frying glass noodles with beef, mushrooms, and vegetables in a soy-based sauce.
Japchae is made by stir-frying glass noodles with beef, mushrooms, and vegetables in a soy-based sauce. The chewy noodles soak up the sweet-and-salty seasoning, making it a great side dish with rice or a hearty meal on its own.
World cuisine · 30 minutes to cook
Nutrition (per 240.7g serving): 439.3 kcal · protein 12.7g · carbohydrate 65.4g · fat 14.5g · sodium 1417.3mg
Nutrition source: one serving calculated from an ingredient table verified against "National Integrated Food Nutrient Database (standard data)" (Korea MFDS, RDA and Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries via the Public Data Portal).
Tips: Drain the glass noodles well after boiling so the sauce doesn’t get watery.
Tips: Cook the vegetables separately for a short time instead of stir-frying them all together for too long, to keep their color and texture.
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Ingredients (1 serving)
- Glass noodles — 60 g
- Lean beef — 50 g
- Shiitake mushrooms — 1 pc
- Spinach — 30 g
- Carrot — 20 g
- Onion — 30 g
- Soy sauce — 1 Tbsp
- Sugar — 1 tsp
- Sesame oil — 1 tsp
- Cooking oil — 1 tsp
- Garlic — 1 clove
- Toasted sesame seeds — 1 tsp
- Salt — 0.5 g
- Ground black pepper — 0.2 g