Beef Bulgogi

Did I refer that nosotros simply moved Boy #2 from his crib into a large man child bed? I'm freakin' exhausted. He manifestly thinks it way he tin learn upwardly every bit many times every bit he wants at nighttime in addition to come upwardly wake me upwardly in addition to learn upwardly at the donkey scissure of dawn inwards the morning. *yawn* I'm a tired mama. Last nighttime I got 6.5 hours of sleep, 1 of which was spent laying on the flooring of his bedroom. Ugh. I know Boy #1 took awhile to adapt to non beingness confined when he slept, but I don't scream back how long it took. I don't actually experience capable of getting anything accomplished unopen to my family today (I changed into jammies after my post-gym shower), hence I'm going to update my blog.

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I've been inwards a flake of a funk lately, which I'm certain straight correlates to my lack of sleep, in addition to repast planning simply wasn't exciting for this week. I pulled a cookbook off my shelf that my mother in law had gotten me for Christmas a couplet years agone in addition to flipped through it hoping for ideas. She was a instructor at a Christian high schoolhouse inwards San Antonio (she simply retired!), in addition to it was a fundraising projection from the senior aeroplane I think. I honey cookbooks where people submit their ain recipes because who's going to submit something that sucks? This recipe called for flank steak, but London broil was on sale, hence I catch it would live good. Bulgogi, according to the recipe intro, is a Korean handling for steak that has really broad appeal to western palates in addition to is remarkably slow to make. Also sometimes written every bit Pulgogi, Bulgogi literally way "fire meat" although this refers to a greater extent than to the cooking method than the spiciness of the dish. So at that spot you lot go. I accept no catch how to pronounce it. Bul-go-gee? Bul-gah-gee? Something else entirely?

Beef Bulgogi

ii lb flank steak or sirloin
1/2 c. packed black chocolate-brown sugar
3/4 c. soy sauce (preferably depression salt)
1 Tbsp sesame oil
Dash of blood-red pepper flakes or dry reason cayenne
v or vi greenish onions, sliced
ii Tbsp rice vinegar
iii cloves garlic, minced or crushed

For cooking:
iii Tbsp sesame oil
iii Tbsp peanut or vegetable oil

For thickening marinade/sauce:
1 Tbsp cornstarch dissolved inwards 1 Tbsp water

Trim whatever visible fatty in addition to sinuous tissue from the uncooked steak in addition to roll the meat inwards plastic roll or a Ziploc handbag in addition to house inwards the freezer for one-half an hr to partially freeze meat. Remove meat from the freezer in addition to piece every bit thinly every bit possible across the grain. Lay out meat slices inwards a unmarried layer inwards a low, drinking glass or ceramic casserole dish. As you lot comprehend the bottom once, crumble some of the chocolate-brown carbohydrate over the uncooked meat in addition to perish along layering meat in addition to chocolate-brown carbohydrate until all the steak is sliced in addition to the carbohydrate used.

Marinade: In a bowl, mix soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sesame oil, blood-red pepper, onions, rice vinegar, in addition to garlic. Pour marinade over sugared meat in addition to comprehend to marinate inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree ii hours. Can live marinated all twenty-four hr current or fifty-fifty overnight if using depression sat soy sauce.

Heat a large skillet on medium high oestrus in addition to mix the remaining sesame stone oil amongst the peanut or vegetable oil. Working inwards pocket-size batches to save the oestrus of the pan, exercise a niggling of the mixed oils in addition to chop-chop shaver the steak until simply cooked medium rare. Remove cooked slices to a warm serving platter in addition to repeat the procedure until the whole batch of meat is cooked. exercise to a greater extent than stone oil if necessary. After meat is cooked, cut back oestrus to medium in addition to add together leftover marinade to skillet. Bring to gentle simmer in addition to stir inwards cornstarch/water mixture. Stir spell thickening in addition to pour over cooked meat.

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The marinade smelled fantastic. I honey the aroma of sesame oil. As I was cooking the meat Boy #1 kept saying, "Mommy dinner smells hence yummy!" It ended upwardly beingness super tasty. I think our meat ended upwardly beingness to a greater extent than on the medium or medium good side because I wasn't actually certain how long to allow it create earlier flipping it, but it was however good. The sauce on transcend was actually good, too. Since it had raw meat marinating inwards it, I heated it to boiling simply to live safe. We all actually liked this. Boy #1 complained at 1 signal that he was getting sum in addition to asked if he could simply swallow one-half of what was left on his plate. I said sure, but in addition to hence a couplet minutes afterwards he in addition to I realized he'd eaten all of it! We simply had the meat amongst some frozen Asian blend vegetables, but I think the meat would live actually proficient inwards lettuce roll form, too. I'll definitely brand this again!


Sadly, none of the pictures I took of the cooked meat turned out. :(

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