Korean

Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg)

Name: Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg)
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 1 lb beef chuck; 4 eggs; 1/2 cup soy sauce; 3 cups water; 6 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp sugar; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Seung-ho @seunghojang

Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

50 min Medium Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb beef chuck
4 eggs
1/2 cup soy sauce
3 cups water
6 garlic cloves
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Boil the eggs 9 minutes, cool in cold water, and peel.
Simmer the beef chuck in water to cover for 25 minutes until just tender, skimming any foam, then slice into thick strips.
Combine the soy sauce, the measured water, garlic, and sugar in a pot and bring to a simmer.
Add the beef and peeled eggs and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes so the braise reduces and the flavor soaks in.
Cool in the braising liquid, then shred the beef into thick strands with your fingers or chopsticks and season with black pepper before serving.

Watch how to cook Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Beef Bibimbap
  
  50 min
Something to sip
- Aehobak-guk (Clear Zucchini Soup)
  
  18 min
What it is eaten with
- Boribap (Barley Rice)
  
  35 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
Soy	Yes	Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi)
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 200 kcal
Protein: 17 g
Carbs: 7 g
Fat: 11 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 1280 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Jangjorim (Soy-Braised Beef and Egg) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.