Theme 4:
Cooked veggie dishes
Koreans
love to use lots of vegetables in their cooking. Vegetables commonly used are: onions, mushrooms, cabbage, zucchini, carrots,
potatoes, green onions, peppers (both green and red), ginger and garlic.
Cooking
Tip:
Cleaned and
chopped vegetables are cooked in an oil coated hot pan and finished with soy
sauce and sesame oil towards the end of cooking.
Now, using
this tip, let’s make a popular Korean style vegetable dish!
Easy Korean
style cooked veggies with onions and mushrooms with carrots
Ingredients:
onions (sliced, 1), mushrooms (8oz), carrots (thinly sliced or julienned), oil
(1TB), salt & pepper
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| vegetable ingredients: onions, mushroom and carrots |
Steps:
1. Prep the
veggies
2. Turn on heat to medium and preheat until the pan gets hot enough, add the oil
3. Add onions with a pinch of salt and cook for about 3 min until somewhat translucent
4. Add carrots with a pinch of salt and cook for about 3min
5. Add mushrooms with a pinch of salt and stir veggies, making sure they are nicely coated with the oil on the bottom of the pan, cook for about 5 min; turn off heat and cover and leave on stove top for about 10 min.
6. season to taste (add more salt & pepper, if desired)
7. Serve with rice/veggies/any meat dishes such as steak, roast, etc.
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| vegetables cooked in the cast iron skillet |
Variations:
This is a
very versatile hearty, vegetable dish that goes well with pretty much
everything. You can use it in lieu of
starch (if you’re watching blood sugar levels like me & my husband!). You can add a fried egg (cooked medium with
yolk runny) on top to make an egg benedict spin off. You can, of course, change or add vegetables
or incorporate meat (cooked, leftover meat) to make it a heartier meal! This
can also serve as a base for making other Korean popular dishes such as
“bibimbop” or “chapchae”. You get the
idea!!
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| T bone steak, spicy Italian sausage and Korean bbq pork with cooked veggies |