New Year's Eve recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has sirloin steak, soy sauce, golden caster sugar, mirin, ginger, garlic clove, pineapple, chilli flakes, sesame oil, lettuce, sesame seed, spring onion, chilli sauce, kecap manis and lime.
Korean beef bulgogi skewers
Course: New Years Eve
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves
- Spring Onion: spring onions, thinly sliced, to serve
- Chilli Flakes: 1 tsp chilli flakes or Korean chilli powder
- Lime: juice 1 lime
- Soy Sauce: 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Sesame Oil: 1 tbsp sesame oil, plus extra for frying
- Ginger: thumb-sized piece ginger, peeled and sliced
- Lettuce: lettuce leaves, to serve
- Golden Caster Sugar: 2 tbsp golden caster sugar
- Pineapple: 50g chopped fresh pineapple
- Sirloin Steak: 300g sirloin steak, fat removed
- Sesame Seed: toasted sesame seeds, to serve
- Chilli Sauce: 2 tbsp sriracha or other chilli sauce
- Mirin: 2 tbsp mirin
- Kecap Manis: 2 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
Directions
- Put the steak in the freezer for 30 mins - it will firm up and be much easier to slice thinly. Meanwhile, make a marinade. Put the soy, sugar, mirin, ginger, garlic, pineapple, chilli flakes and oil in a food processor. Blitz until smooth, then pour into a bowl.
- When the meat is semi-frozen, thinly slice into 25 pieces and add to the marinade. Chill until ready to use, but don't leave for longer than 2 hrs or the pineapple juice will break down the meat too much.
- Meanwhile, soak small wooden skewers in water for 10 mins. When ready to serve, thread a piece of meat onto each skewer. Heat a griddle pan, or frying pan, and brown skewers for 1-2 mins each side or until grill marks appear. Add a little more oil to the pan if needed.
- Mix together the dipping sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Serve the skewers with lettuce, sesame seeds, spring onions and dipping sauce.
