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Jajangmyeon

Noodles under black bean sauce, pork and onion cooked down until sweet.

Jajangmyeon
Photo: ꡭ립ꡭ어원, CC BY-SA 2.0 kr, via Wikimedia Commons. A photo of the dish, not of these exact recipes.

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How to make jajangmyeon

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Fried bean paste, properly

40 minutes Β· serves 3 Β· Medium

What you need

  • 5 tbsp chunjang black bean paste
  • 4 tbsp oil
  • 300g pork shoulder, diced small
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 1 courgette, diced
  • 1 potato, diced
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp cornflour in water
  • 400g thick wheat noodles
  • 1 cucumber, in matchsticks

What you do

  1. 1Fry the bean paste in the oil over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring β€” raw chunjang is bitter and this is the step everyone skips.
  2. 2Lift the paste out. Brown the pork in the same pan, then the onion, potato and courgette until softening.
  3. 3Paste back in with the sugar and 300ml water. Simmer 12 minutes until the potato is tender.
  4. 4Thicken with the cornflour slurry until it coats a spoon.
  5. 5Boil the noodles, drain, sauce on top, cucumber over that. Mix it violently before eating.

Vegetarian, with mushrooms

30 minutes Β· serves 2 Β· Easy

What you need

  • Chunjang
  • Oil
  • Mushrooms
  • Onion
  • Courgette
  • Potato
  • Sugar
  • Cornflour
  • Noodles

What you do

  1. 1Same, with a big handful of chopped mushrooms in place of the pork.
  2. 2Fry the paste properly. That is where all of it comes from.