Ttukdak Hyung's Restaurant-Style Stir-Fried Zucchini

Name: Ttukdak Hyung's Restaurant-Style Stir-Fried Zucchini
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 1 zucchini; cooking oil; large green onion; Jin-ganjang (Korean all-purpose soy sauce); coarse gochugaru (Korean chili flakes); fermented anchovy sauce; sesame oil; sugar; minced garlic; beef dashida; sesame seeds; chili pepper; cheongyang chili pepper

A crisp stir-fried zucchini made with a secret all-purpose seasoning sauce from Noryangjin exam-prep cafeterias, based on fermented anchovy sauce and beef dashida for deep umami.

10 min Difficulty Very easy side dish

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Ingredients needed 2 servings

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minced garlic

beef dashida

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chili pepper

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Recipe

Mix large green onion, Jin-ganjang, coarse gochugaru, fermented anchovy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, minced garlic, beef dashida, sesame seeds, chili pepper, and cheongyang chili pepper to make the restaurant-style all-purpose side-dish seasoning sauce.
Slice the zucchini into half-moon shapes, bite-sized.
Drizzle cooking oil in a pan.
Add the sliced zucchini and an appropriate amount of the prepared seasoning sauce.
Stir-fry quickly over high heat until the zucchini retains its crisp texture, then serve.

Mix the measured ingredients to make a savory, salty all-purpose side-dish seasoning sauce.
Drizzle cooking oil in a pan, then add the sliced zucchini and the seasoning sauce.
Stir-fry quickly over high heat to preserve the crispness, then plate.

Cooking tips

Beef dashida is essential to achieve the distinct, mouth-coating restaurant-style umami typical of exam-prep cafeterias.
Do not add all the seasoning sauce at once; taste as you stir-fry and add little by little to suit your preference.
If the zucchini is stir-fried too long, it will become mushy, so it's important to stir-fry quickly over high heat as if evaporating the moisture.

Recommended for

Those who want to recreate the mouth-coating flavor of restaurant-style zucchini side dish at home.
Those who want to whip up an everyday side dish in 10 minutes.
People living alone or anyone looking for a budget-friendly vegetable side dish.

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