๐Ÿฅข Korean Japchae (์žก์ฑ„) โ€” Sweet & Savory Glass Noodles

If youโ€™ve ever tried Korean food, youโ€™ve probably seen Japchae (์žก์ฑ„) โ€” colorful glass noodles stir-fried with vegetables and beef.
Itโ€™s one of Koreaโ€™s most popular dishes, known for its perfect balance of sweet and savory flavors.
Although often served on special occasions, itโ€™s simple enough to make at home.
This recipe will show you how to create the same delicious Japchae with easy steps and ingredients you can find anywhere.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค ๋ดค์„ ์žก์ฑ„!
๋‹น๋ฉด์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ฑ„์†Œ์™€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ์–ด ๋ณถ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์š”๋ฆฌ์˜ˆ์š”.
๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•˜๊ณ  ์งญ์งคํ•œ ๋ง›์ด ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ๋ช…์ ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋‚  ์ž์ฃผ ๋จน์ง€๋งŒ ์ง‘์—์„œ๋„ ์†์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿฅ• Ingredients | ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

  • 200 g sweet potato glass noodles (๋‹น๋ฉด)
  • 100 g beef (thinly sliced) (์†Œ๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ์–‡๊ฒŒ ์ฌ ๊ฒƒ)
  • 1 cup spinach (blanched) (์‹œ๊ธˆ์น˜, ๋ฐ์นœ ๊ฒƒ)
  • ยฝ carrot (thinly sliced) (๋‹น๊ทผ)
  • ยฝ onion (์–‘ํŒŒ)
  • ยฝ bell pepper (optional) (ํ”ผ๋ง, ์„ ํƒ)
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce (๊ฐ„์žฅ)
  • 1 tbsp sugar (์„คํƒ•)
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil (์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„)
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds (ํ†ต๊นจ)
  • 1 clove garlic (minced) (๋‹ค์ง„ ๋งˆ๋Š˜)
  • Cooking oil for stir-frying (์‹์šฉ์œ )

I prepared one more bowl of sesame seeds. They make the dish taste much nuttier, so I like to add a little extra. ๐Ÿ˜Š


๐Ÿณ Instructions | ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•

  1. Soak the noodles in warm water for 20โ€“30 minutes, then boil for 6 minutes. Rinse in cold water and drain well.
    ๋‹น๋ฉด์„ 20~30๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ ๋’ค 6๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ์‚ถ๊ณ  ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— ํ—น๊ถˆ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์š”.
  2. Stir-fry each vegetable lightly with a little oil and salt, then set aside.
    ์ฑ„์†Œ๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ์†Œ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ณถ์•„ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. Stir-fry beef with soy sauce, garlic, and sugar until cooked through.
    ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์žฅ, ๋งˆ๋Š˜, ์„คํƒ•๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณถ์•„์š”.
  4. Combine noodles, vegetables, and beef in a large pan.
    ํฐ ํŒฌ์— ๋‹น๋ฉด, ์ฑ„์†Œ, ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋„ฃ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  5. Add soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. Stir over low heat for 2โ€“3 minutes until well mixed.
    ๊ฐ„์žฅ, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„, ์„คํƒ•์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์•ฝ๋ถˆ์—์„œ 2~3๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋ณถ์•„์š”.
  6. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and serve warm.
    ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋ฟŒ๋ ค ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸงŠ Storage | ๋ณด๊ด€๋ฒ•

Store leftover Japchae in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Reheat in a pan with a few drops of sesame oil for the best flavor.

๋‚จ์€ ์žก์ฑ„๋Š” ๋ฐ€ํ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ด์•„ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋ฉด 2์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
๋จน๊ธฐ ์ „, ํŒฌ์— ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋ฐ์šฐ๋ฉด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.


๐Ÿ’ช Nutrition & Health Benefits | ์žก์ฑ„์˜ ์˜์–‘์ •๋ณด์™€ ์ข‹์€ ์ 

Japchae is a balanced dish of noodles, vegetables, and protein.
Sweet potato noodles are naturally gluten-free and provide lasting energy.
Vegetables like spinach, carrots, and onions add fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants, supporting digestion and immunity.
Cooked with minimal oil, Japchae becomes a light yet satisfying meal for any time of day.

์žก์ฑ„๋Š” ๋‹น๋ฉด, ์ฑ„์†Œ, ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์–ด ์˜์–‘ ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
๋‹น๋ฉด์€ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํ…์ด ์—†๊ณ  ํฌ๋งŒ๊ฐ์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์œ ์ง€๋˜์–ด ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ณด์ถฉ์— ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์‹œ๊ธˆ์น˜, ๋‹น๊ทผ, ์–‘ํŒŒ๋Š” ์‹์ด์„ฌ์œ ์™€ ๋น„ํƒ€๋ฏผ, ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™” ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•ด ์†Œํ™”์™€ ๋ฉด์—ญ๋ ฅ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ค˜์š”.
๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ์ ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๋ณ์ง€๋งŒ ๋“ ๋“ ํ•œ ํ•œ ๋ผ ์‹์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐ŸŒŸ Cooking Tips | ์š”๋ฆฌ ๊ฟ€ํŒ

  • The noodles absorb sauce quickly โ€” season lightly first, then adjust before serving.
    ๋‹น๋ฉด์€ ๊ฐ„์„ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ๊ฐ„์„ ์•ฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์— ๋งž์ถ”์„ธ์š”.
  • Add egg strips for extra color and flavor.
    ๊ณ„๋ž€ ์ง€๋‹จ์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ’๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ข‹์•„์š”.
  • For a vegetarian version, replace beef with mushrooms.
    ์ฑ„์‹ ๋ฒ„์ „์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๋Œ€์‹  ๋ฒ„์„ฏ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

Japchae isnโ€™t just a side dish โ€” itโ€™s a meal on its own.
Sweet, savory, and perfectly satisfying, itโ€™s a dish youโ€™ll never get tired of.
Try making it at home today and bring a taste of Korea to your table ๐Ÿœโœจ

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