Chicken Stir Fry Based on Korean Dak Galbi

[ecowper]

Still not on the grill or smoker, but darn tasty ….. created a stir fry yesterday based on Dak Galbi, a Korean table top, communal dish. I adapted the sauce, added chicken and veggies to it and did a stir fry …… was damn tasty, doing it again soon.

Ingredients
16 oz boneless skinless chicken breast
16 oz boneless skinless chicken thigh
2 carrots, peeled and julienned
2 celery stalks, trimmed and chopped
1 orange pepper, julienned
3 tbsp Gochujang
1 tbsp Gochugaru
1 tbsp garlic/ginger paste
2 tbsp soy sauce
4 tbsp chinese rice wine
1 tbsp Mirin rice wine
1/2 cup cashews or peanuts (optional)

Directions
Cut chicken into 1/2 inch pieces
Prep vegetables
Mix together gochujang, gochugaru, garlic/ginger paste, soy sauce, rice wine and mirin.
Pour marinade over chicken in a ziplock bag. Marinade at least 1 hour, 4 is better
Prep a wok so that oil is just barely smoking
Add chicken and spread out in 1 layer, cook about 3 minutes
Stir and turn chicken and cook another 3 minutes
Add veggies and nuts to bottom of wok with chicken pushed up the sides
Cook for 1 minutes
Stir all together, now stir and toss for about 3 minutes
When chicken is cooked through, serve immediately

[ecowper]

Just a note, you can get Gochujang and Gochugaru on Amazon if you don’t have a decent Korean grocery somewhere nearby. I usually buy my rice wine on Amazon, too. It’s 50 minutes into Seattle and I don’t normally feel like doing that.

[hoovarmin]

Whole Foods carries a great gochujang paste (note - do not try substituting sauce for paste).

[Oak Smoke]

Thank goodness for Amazon. We don’t have a Korean market nearby. To give you an idea of what shopping hear is like our local grocery store doesn’t have coriander because no one buys it.

[JCBBQ]

Yum!!

[ecowper]

It was good! Enough spice to set off my taste buds, but not too much!

[JCBBQ]

If you’re looking for something to do w all your Gochujang, NYTimes has a decent noodle recipe:

[ecowper]

Korean spaghetti FTW

[JCBBQ]

ecowper lol totally

[shify]

I’ve made that a few times. Such a great and easy dish.

[DavidNorcross]

I will try this. Love stir fry!

[Bkhuna]

Awesome recipes. I keep an Asian pantry and have all of those ingredients and some. I'm making the stir fry next Saturday. The noodles look like something that can be done during the work week. Thanks to both of you.

[Michael_in_TX]

Gochujang on chicken is dynamite. I like to marinate some chicken in gochujang, soy sauce, and rice vinegar, grill it, and eat it in lettuce leaves with some matchstick carrots. Very good.

[58limited]

I'm going to make this today. I have all of the ingredients except the orange pepper - going to the store for coffee so I'll get one. FYI - Chinese Rice Wine might be labeled Shaoxing at an Asian market.

[ecowper]

That’s correct about the rice wine, although it could be labeled other things as well.

[58limited]

Yeah, I looked and my current bottle is labeled Shao Hsing

[58limited]

Here's mine, served over Basmati rice. Only deviation from your recipe is I added some green onion - had some in the fridge that needed to be used up:

[ecowper]

Looks good!