Photo: Lily Banse
Korean barbecue kalbi with ssam jang sauce recipe
19 ingredients
2 hr 20 min + 5 min
2 people
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This dish is always a serious crowd pleaser. It is best cooked on a charcoal grill but if you don’t have access to one, a grill pan works almost as well.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
1236
Calories
43g
Protein
44g
Fat
170g
Carbs
Counts 15 of 19 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 15 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Beef | 100g cooked | 250 |
| Pasta | 1 cup cooked (140g) | 220 |
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Sesame | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Pear | 1 medium (178g) | 101 |
| Asian Pear | 1 medium (178g) | 101 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Soy Sauce | 1 tbsp (15ml) | 9 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Soy Bean | not in our table | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Gochujang | not in our table | 0 |
| Leaf | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 Korean short beef ribs, trimmed and cut thinly into ½cm thick slices
- lbs pears (use a semi-hard sweet variety like conference or barlette) OR 1 Asian pear, peeled and grated
- 2 cloves garlic, grated
- 3 dark brown sugar
- 3.5 tablespoons soy sauce
- tbsp roasted sesame oil
- 4 grated ginger
- tbsp grinds of black pepper (adjust to taste)
- 2.5 sea salt
- tbsp spring onion or scallion, finely chopped
- 2 clove garlic, grated
- tsp Korean fermented soy bean pasta (dwengjang)
- 8 roasted sesame seeds
- 1 Korean chilli paste (gochujang)
- pinch mirin
- 1 roasted sesame oil
- 1 bowl cooked medium-grain white rice
- 4.5 green leaf lettuce leaves
- tbsp sesame leaves (optional)
Directions
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By lovefood ·
Recipe sourced from
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