Description:
Jjajang is a favorite Korean Chinese sauce which is usually served with Chinese noodles. You can use jjajang with rice steamed or fried, or even you can cook spaghetti using jjajang. Its taste is rich sweet and savory, and also some nutty flavor from the bean paste. You can use one of sweet bean paste (tian mian jiang), chunjang (Korean version of tian mian jiang) or soy bean paste (Doenjang).
Ingredients:
- 4Tbsp of sweet bean paste (tian mian jiang) or chunjang
or - 2Tbsp of soy bean paste
- 0.5 lbs of stew pork
- 1-1.5 onion (depending on size, chuncked)
- 0.5 zucchini (optional, chuncked)
- 1Tbsp of soy sauce
- 2Tbsp of rice cooking wine
- Some dark soy sauce (Lao chou)
- Some cooking oil (corn or peanut recommended)
- Some water
- Some sugar
- Some MSG
- Some cornstarch mixed with water by 1:1
How to cook:
- First, fry bean paste in oil. Heat the pan in around 300-320 F. Add some oil in the pan. The amount of oil should be enough for frying the paste.
- Put the bean paste in the pan. Fry the paste for about 7 mins. The purpose of this process is to dry the paste and soak paste with oil. After fried well, the paste have smooth and nutty flavor. When it is done for frying, put the paste in a bowl with all the oil.
- Wipe off the pan by paper towel, and wash it with water. Dry the pan, and heat it in 400 F.
- Add some oil in the pan, and stir fry the pork. Fry it well until it becomes nice brown.
- When the pork becomes brown, add soy sauce to make flavor, and then put cooking wine to deglaze.
- Without reducing the heat, add onion, and stir well. Then, add zucchini, too, if you have.
- When onion get enough heat, put the fried bean paste. Mix it with the pork and onion well.
- Add some sugar and MSG to add sweet and savory taste. Caution: Taste it first, and try from little amount! Especially, if you use the sweet bean paste, the sauce is already very sweet.
- Use dark soy sauce to add color to your sauce.
- If you stop at this moment, you have made Gan-jjajang. It is already good with Chinese noodles.
- Add some water in the pan, and stir. The amount of water is not fixed and it depends on your taste. Add enough water until you get your preferred taste.
- Mix prepared cornstarch with water well, and add cornstarch in your sauce until it becomes thick enough.
- Enjoy with rice or noodles!