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Jjajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce)

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Jjajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce), from the video Makes 4
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Ingredients
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  • ½ tbsp oil
  • 1 cup radish
  • 1 cup sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup zucchini
  • 2 cup onion
  • 7 tbsp black bean paste
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 cup water
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 200 g pork
Cut the pork, skin on, and all the vegetables into small cubes.
Heat a pan over medium-high heat with oil and stir-fry the pork cubes until very crispy.
Drain off the pork fat and use olive oil instead. Stir-fry the radish and sweet potato, then after two minutes the onion and zucchini.
Pour in water until the ingredients are almost submerged, cover and boil.
  • 1 tbsp oil
In a small pan over medium-high heat, fry the black bean paste in a tablespoon of oil; leave the extra oil behind.
When a piece of sweet potato is cooked, stir in the fried black bean paste until brownish.
Building and thickening the sauce
  • potato corn starch
Mix potato starch with water and drizzle it in, stirring, until the sauce turns sticky and shiny; add about a teaspoon of sugar.
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • jjajang noodles
Cook the noodles by the package directions, covered, just before eating.
Noodles, sesame oil and the cucumber garnish
  • sesame oil
  • cucumber
  • oi-kimchi
Add a little sesame oil to the sauce, put it over the noodles, garnish with cucumber and serve with oi-kimchi.