Korean Recipes

Whenever I am home for the holidays, I always ask my mom to share the recipes for my favorite dishes. I managed to get two this year and I'm super excited! No pictures this time, but I'll share the recipe for my mom's Korean Spicy Pork Marinade and Korean Sauteed Hot Chili Paste with Pork.

Korean Spicy Pork Marinade

(Source: My Mom)

Marinade:

3 tablespoons finely chopped onion

4 tablespoons gochujang (Korean red pepper paste)

1 tablespoon chopped garlic

1 teaspoon ginger juice (finely chop some fresh ginger and squeeze out the juice)

4 tablespoons soy sauce

1 tablespoon mirin

2 tablespoons corn syrup

ground black pepper

1 tablespoon sesame seed

1 tablespoon sesame seed oil

1 tablespoon gochugaru (Korean red pepper flakes)

4 tablespoons sugar 

Meat:

2 pounds of thinly sliced pork (Found in Korean grocery stores)

Mix all the marinade ingredients together in a medium sized bowl and set aside until needed. Separate the thin slices of pork and sprinkle some sugar in between each slice and refrigerate overnight. Then mix the thinly sliced pork with the marinade and marinate for a few hours. When you want to eat the spicy pork, heat up a skillet until it's really hot and saute the marinated pork in the skillet until it's cooked through. 

Sauteed Hot Chili Paste

(Source: My Mom)

1 1/2 cups chopped onion

1/2 cup thinly sliced green onion

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/3 cup chopped garlic

1/2 cup ground pork

1/4 cup sugar

1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 cup gochujang (Korean hot chili paste)

Heat oil in a skillet and saute green onion in the oil for 1 - 2 minutes. Then add the chopped onion and ground pork into the skillet. Use a wooden spoon to break up the pork and keep stirring the pork/onion mixture in the skillet until the meat is cooked. Add the chopped garlic, sugar, and soy sauce to the meat mixture and cook for 1-2 minutes. Add the gochujang and mix in with the pork mixture until everything is combined. Cook this for 10 minutes and it'll be done!