Bulgogi is korean grilled beef! It’s really good. That’s pretty much all there is to say. Officially you are supposed to grill it over charcoal, but I don’t have a grill. I pan seared it and it turned out fine.
Ingredients
1 pound steak, sliced. I used ~1/2 inch thick ribeye steaks they had on sale at my grocery, that was thin enough
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup white sugar
1 bunch (usually 6) scallions, finely chopped
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 tablespoons sesame oil
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
4-6 cloves of garlic, minced
1-2 inches ginger, minced
3-4 shallots, thinly sliced
Directions
Put everything in a dish you can cover or a plastic bag you can seal. Marinate the steak for a few hours or overnight if possible (Is there such a thing as a marinade that doesn’t work better overnight?)
Heat either your grill or your frying pan (probably want to use stainless steel for this if you have it, or cast iron) up to high heat. As you have room, remove the steaks from the marinade and lay them in the pan, spreading them out for maximum contact. Sear them for at most 2 minutes to a side, then remove.
That’s it. You can discard the rest of the marinade. You can eat this with rice, or I ate it as tacos with kimchee.
Pro tip: if you dump the marinade in the pan after you’re done and mix in some rice vinegar and more sugar, you can get a really good korean bbq sauce.
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