Korean beef bulgogi skewers
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus marinating
- Easy
- Makes 25 skewers
Ingredients
- 300g sirloin steak, fat removed
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp golden caster sugar
- 2 tbsp mirin
- thumb-sized piece ginger, peeled and sliced
- 2 garlic cloves
- 50g chopped fresh pineapple
- 1 tsp chilli flakes or Korean chilli powder
- 1 tbsp sesame oil, plus extra for frying
- lettuce leaves, to serve
- toasted sesame seeds, to serve
- spring onions, thinly sliced, to serve
For the dipping sauce
- 2 tbsp sriracha or other chilli sauce
- 2 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
- juice 1 lime
Method
- STEP 1
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.
- STEP 2
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.
- STEP 3
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.
- STEP 4
Mix together the dipping sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Serve the skewers with lettuce, sesame seeds, spring onions and dipping sauce.
