Main ingredients 🥩
beefrape greensgarliceggstarch powdersoy sauceoyster sauce
Lee Yeon-bok's Sogogi Yuchae Bokkeum
A dish that uses the Chinese 'yukhwa' coating technique to make tough beef melt-in-your-mouth tender, paired with fragrant rape greens.
🙋 Recommended for
- ⭐ Those who want to cook cheap or tough beef as tender as in a high-end Chinese restaurant
- ⭐ Those who want to enjoy the clean harmony of fragrant seasonal greens and savory beef
Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings
- beef 200g
- rape greens one handful
- garlic 5 cloves
- egg wash (1/2 egg)
- starch powder 2 tbsp
- soy sauce 1.5 tbsp (1 tbsp for marinating, 0.5 tbsp for stir-fry)
- oyster sauce 1.5 tbsp
- cooking oil as needed
Recipe 🍳
- Wash the rape greens clean and roughly tear them by hand without using a knife to preserve the spring fragrance.
- Slice the beef thickly against the grain. If the meat is tough, use a sawing motion by moving the knife back and forth gently to slice it tenderly.
- Marinate the sliced beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce, mixing well. Then add 2 tbsp starch powder and half an egg's worth of beaten egg, and mix. Finally, add 2 tbsp cooking oil to coat the surface (the yukhwa process).
- Heat a pan with enough oil, add the marinated beef, and stir gently to cook just the surface without clumping. Drain the oil completely using a strainer.
- Press the garlic cloves flat on the cutting board to stabilize them, then slice thinly.
- Add a little cooking oil to the pan and sauté the sliced garlic until the pungent smell fades and a nutty aroma rises.
- When the garlic is fragrant, add all the prepared rape greens and stir-fry. Just as they start to wilt, add 0.5 tbsp soy sauce along the edge of the pan to enhance the flavor.
- Add the lightly cooked beef and 1.5 tbsp oyster sauce, then stir-fry quickly over high heat until the vegetables and meat are well combined. Serve.
- Tear rape greens by hand; slice beef into flat pieces.
- Coat beef with soy sauce, starch, egg wash, and oil in order, massaging to create the yukhwa coating.
- In a well-oiled pan, lightly cook the beef without clumping, then drain oil.
- Sauté garlic, add rape greens and soy sauce, then add cooked beef and oyster sauce, stir-frying quickly.
Cooking tips 💡
- When slicing beef, pressing down hard can crush the meat; instead, use a gentle sawing motion back and forth for clean slices.
- Coating the beef with egg, starch, and oil before frying locks in moisture, making any cut of meat melt-in-your-mouth tender.
- When slicing garlic, press the flat side against the cutting board to prevent it from rolling and ensure safe slicing.
- If rape greens are not in season, substitute with green vegetables like bok choy or water dropwort; they work well too.
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