Ttukdak Hyung's Diet Jjajangmyeon

A diet Jjajangmyeon dish with pork neck, cabbage, and pasta, stir-fried or tossed in a rich black bean sauce for a savory flavor.

🙋 Recommended for

  • Those who want to make pasta and snack dishes like diet Jjajangmyeon properly at home.
  • Those who enjoy the combination of pork neck and cabbage.
  • Those who want to manage noodle cooking and seasoning balance for great flavor.

Ingredients needed 🛒2 servings

  • Water: 1L
  • Baking soda: 1 spoon
  • Pasta noodles: 150g
  • Cooking oil: 1 spoon
  • Pork neck: 600g
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Cabbage: 300g
  • Onion: 300g
  • Green onion: 150g
  • Potato: 150g
  • Soy sauce: 1 spoon
  • Minced garlic: 1 spoon
  • Allulose: 2 spoons
  • Cheongyang pepper
  • Water: 200ml
  • Jjajang powder: 80g

Recipe 🍳

  1. Add 1 spoon of baking soda to 1L of water and mix well, then add 150g of pasta noodles and soak for 2 hours. * Pasta noodles have a chewy texture that breaks easily, but soaking them in baking soda can make them firm and springy like alkaline noodles. 1L water, 1 spoon baking soda, 150g pasta noodles.
  2. Lightly grease a pan with cooking oil, then grill 600g of pork neck seasoned with salt and pepper. 1 spoon cooking oil, 600g pork neck, salt, pepper.
  3. Once one side of the meat is cooked, cut the meat into bite-sized pieces, then add and stir-fry the following ingredients. 300g cabbage, 300g onion, 150g green onion, 150g potato.
  4. When the vegetables are softened, add and mix the following ingredients. 1 spoon soy sauce, 1 spoon minced garlic, 200ml water, 80g jjajang powder.
  5. Turn off the heat, add 2 spoons of allulose, and mix to complete the jjajang sauce! 1 spoon allulose.
  6. Add 1L of water to a pot, and once the water starts boiling, pour in the pasta noodles soaked for 2 hours along with all the baking soda water and boil for exactly 3 minutes. 1L water.
  7. Top the boiled pasta noodles with jjajang sauce and plenty of cheongyang pepper to complete! Boiled pasta noodles, jjajang sauce, cheongyang pepper.
  1. Prepare noodles or rice cakes and make the sauce.
  2. Cook the main ingredients, then mix or boil with the noodles.
  3. Check consistency and seasoning, then serve immediately.

Cooking tips 💡

  • The measurements and steps are organized based on the blog post. Adjust cooking time slightly depending on heat and pan size.