
If youโve ever tried Korean food, youโve probably seen Japchae (์ก์ฑ) โ colorful glass noodles stir-fried with vegetables and beef.
Itโs one of Koreaโs most popular dishes, known for its perfect balance of sweet and savory flavors.
Although often served on special occasions, itโs 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.
ํ๊ตญ ์์์ ์ข์ํ๋ค๋ฉด ํ ๋ฒ์ฏค ๋ดค์ ์ก์ฑ!
๋น๋ฉด์ ๋ค์ํ ์ฑ์์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ์ด ๋ณถ์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ ์๋ฆฌ์์.
๋ฌ์ฝคํ๊ณ ์งญ์งคํ ๋ง์ด ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ๋ช
์ ์ด๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ์์ฃผ ๋จน์ง๋ง ์ง์์๋ ์์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ต๋๋ค.
๐ฅ Ingredients | ์ฌ๋ฃ

- 200 g sweet potato glass noodles (๋น๋ฉด)
- 100 g beef (thinly sliced) (์๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ์๊ฒ ์ฌ ๊ฒ)
- 1 cup spinach (blanched) (์๊ธ์น, ๋ฐ์น ๊ฒ)
- ยฝ carrot (thinly sliced) (๋น๊ทผ)
- ยฝ onion (์ํ)
- ยฝ bell pepper (optional) (ํผ๋ง, ์ ํ)
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (๊ฐ์ฅ)
- 1 tbsp sugar (์คํ)
- 1 tbsp sesame oil (์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ)
- 1 tsp sesame seeds (ํต๊นจ)
- 1 clove garlic (minced) (๋ค์ง ๋ง๋)
- Cooking oil for stir-frying (์์ฉ์ )
I prepared one more bowl of sesame seeds. They make the dish taste much nuttier, so I like to add a little extra. ๐
๐ณ Instructions | ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ

- Soak the noodles in warm water for 20โ30 minutes, then boil for 6 minutes. Rinse in cold water and drain well.
๋น๋ฉด์ 20~30๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ฆฐ ๋ค 6๋ถ ์ ๋ ์ถ๊ณ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์ ํน๊ถ ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์. - Stir-fry each vegetable lightly with a little oil and salt, then set aside.
์ฑ์๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ๊ณผ ์๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ณถ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ก๋๋ค. - Stir-fry beef with soy sauce, garlic, and sugar until cooked through.
๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ฅ, ๋ง๋, ์คํ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ณถ์์. - Combine noodles, vegetables, and beef in a large pan.
ํฐ ํฌ์ ๋น๋ฉด, ์ฑ์, ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฃ์ต๋๋ค. - Add soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. Stir over low heat for 2โ3 minutes until well mixed.
๊ฐ์ฅ, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ, ์คํ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ฝ๋ถ์์ 2~3๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋ณถ์์. - Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and serve warm.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ํต๊นจ๋ฅผ ๋ฟ๋ ค ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ง Storage | ๋ณด๊ด๋ฒ

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 ์ก์ฑ๋ ๋ฐํ ์ฉ๊ธฐ์ ๋ด์ ๋์ฅ ๋ณด๊ดํ๋ฉด 2์ผ๊น์ง ์ข์์.
๋จน๊ธฐ ์ , ํฌ์ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ฐ์ฐ๋ฉด ์ฒ์์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง์์ด์.
๐ช Nutrition & Health Benefits | ์ก์ฑ์ ์์์ ๋ณด์ ์ข์ ์
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.
์ก์ฑ๋ ๋น๋ฉด, ์ฑ์, ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ด ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋ค์ด ์์ด ์์ ๋ฐธ๋ฐ์ค๊ฐ ์ข์์.
๋น๋ฉด์ ๊ธ๋ฃจํ
์ด ์๊ณ ํฌ๋ง๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋ ์ ์ง๋์ด ์๋์ง ๋ณด์ถฉ์ ์ข์ต๋๋ค.
์๊ธ์น, ๋น๊ทผ, ์ํ๋ ์์ด์ฌ์ ์ ๋นํ๋ฏผ, ํญ์ฐํ ์ฑ๋ถ์ด ํ๋ถํด ์ํ์ ๋ฉด์ญ๋ ฅ ํฅ์์ ๋์์ ์ค์.
๊ธฐ๋ฆ์ ์ ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋ณ์ง๋ง ๋ ๋ ํ ํ ๋ผ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ Cooking Tips | ์๋ฆฌ ๊ฟํ
- The noodles absorb sauce quickly โ season lightly first, then adjust before serving.
๋น๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ํก์ํ๋ ์ฒ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฝํ๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๋ง์ถ์ธ์. - Add egg strips for extra color and flavor.
๊ณ๋ ์ง๋จ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋ ์ข์์. - For a vegetarian version, replace beef with mushrooms.
์ฑ์ ๋ฒ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ฒ์ฏ์ ์ฌ์ฉํด๋ณด์ธ์.

Japchae isnโt just a side dish โ itโs a meal on its own.
Sweet, savory, and perfectly satisfying, itโs a dish youโll never get tired of.
Try making it at home today and bring a taste of Korea to your table ๐โจ