In Korea, we eat this dish often. Working parents are particularly fond of this recipe because once the meat has been marinated; it takes just moments to cook. As a young girl, raised in a single parent household, my mom would keep a Tupperware of marinated pork in the fridge so that I could cook it for my sister and myself when she was working late and unable to prepare dinner for us. When I eat this dish it reminds me of home and taking care of my kid sister.

This dish is also popular among college students because it is cheap, delicious and very easy to make. – Hyeyeon Park

Ingredients

• 1.3 pounds thinly sliced pork (from shoulder or belly)
• 2 medium size onions, sliced
• ½ carrot, sliced into thin strips
• 2 green onion stocks, sliced into 1/4 inch pieces
• SAUCE INGREDIENTS
• 4 TBSP Go-chu-jang (Korean pepper paste – available at any Korean grocery store)
• 2 TBSP brown sugar
• 3 TBSP Korean corn syrup (less sweat compared to normal corn syrup) can substitute with 2 TBSP of white sugar
• 2 TBSP chopped garlic
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 ½ TBSP Korean pepper powder (easily substituted with Cayenne pepper powder)
• 1 ½ TBSP sesame oil
• A pinch of black pepper

Method

Step 1

Mix the all sauce ingredients in a bowl.

Step 2

Pour the sauce over the pork and sliced onions. Marinate them overnight in the fridge.

Step 3

When ready to cook, add the sliced carrot, green onions, and marinated meat to a large saucepan on medium heat. (It takes about 5-7 mins to cook since the meat is very thinly sliced)

Step 4

When we eat this dish in Korea, we create bite sized lettuce wraps. In a palm sized piece of lettuce (red leaf is best), we put a small dollop of rice, a piece of meat and veggies as well as a little bit of Ssam-jang (Korean spicy bean paste – also available at any Korean grocery store). Throw on a piece of Kimchi if you like it.