Korean

Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup)

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Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

60 min Medium Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
5

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Simmer the beef shank in the water for 40 minutes, skimming foam, until fork-tender, then lift it out and shred into thick strands, reserving the broth.

  2. Heat the oil in a pot and toast the gochugaru for 1 minute to bloom its color, being careful not to let it scorch.

  3. Pour in the reserved broth, add the soy sauce and minced garlic, and bring to a boil.

  4. Add the shredded beef, bean sprouts, and garlic chives and simmer 15 minutes until the sprouts are tender but not mushy.

  5. Season with salt, beat the egg and drizzle it in for the last 30 seconds, and serve hot as a full, spicy one-bowl meal.

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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 Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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. Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Shellfish No
Eggs Yes Beef Bulgogi
Soy Yes Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
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
340 kcal
Protein
36 g
Carbs
7 g
Fat
19 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
1 g
Sodium
810 mg
Saturated fat
6 g

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

When to cook it

Yukgaejang (Spicy Shredded Beef Soup) takes about 60 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.

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