Spicy Stir Fried Pork – Korean style 

This dish is known and Jaeyouk Bokum. “Jayouk Bokum” or “Jeyuk Bokkeum” (제육볶음) is a popular Korean dish made with spicy marinated pork stir-fried with vegetables.

There are many many variations of this dish and today we are going to see a variation that works beautifully with few common items we can get from a good Asian Grocery store

Ingredients

To make Jayouk Bokum, you will need:

• 1 pound of pork shoulder or pork belly, thinly sliced
• 1 medium onion, sliced into big pieces
• 4 large green chillies sliced
• 6 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely minced
• 2 tablespoon of pure sesame oil
• 1 table spoon ginger garlic paste
• 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine
• 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 1 tablespoon of hot chili oil
• 1/2 cup of Korean chili paste (gochujang)
• 1 tablespoon of Chilli flakes
• 2 cups baby Bok choy
• 1 cup bamboo shoots
• 3 spring onions sliced

Steps

Here’s how to make it:

1. In a bowl, take red onions green chillies and add pork.
2. Add ginger garlic paste and fresh minced garlic.
3. Mix together the Sesame oil, hot oil, honey and rice wine and add to the meat.
4. Next add Korean chili paste (gochujang).
5. Now add Soy sauce and mix well.
6. Add Chilli flakes, Baby Bok Choy and Bamboo shoots.
7. Add chopped spring onions and mix all the ingredients gently and ensure all the meat is coated properly.
8. Let the pork and vegetables marinate for at least 1 hour, and preferably overnight in the refrigerator.
9. Before cooking take the bowl out from the refrigerator and let it stand for about 15 minutes before tossing it in the skillet.
10. Heat the skillet to medium high heat. Add a splash of sesame oil.
11. Carefully add some of the marinated meat and vegetables to the hot skillet and fry well until meat is fully cooked, about 5-7 minutes.
12. Once done, remove from the skillet and transfer to serving bowl.
13. Awesome Spicy Korean Pork Stir fry ready.
14. Serve hot with steamed rice.

This goes really well with fried rice as well. Enjoy Spicy Stir Fried Korean Pork !