Korean
Dakgalbi Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry
Dakgalbi Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry is Korean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1/4 cup gochujang
- 1 tbsp gochugaru
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 5 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 sweet potato
- 4 cups green cabbage
- 1 onion
- 4 scallions
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Whisk the gochujang, gochugaru, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and sugar into a marinade and toss with the bite-size chicken.
- Heat the neutral oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the diced sweet potato and cook 5 minutes to give it a head start.
- Add the marinated chicken and cook until it begins to brown, about 6 minutes.
- Add the cabbage and onion and stir-fry until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables soften, about 6 minutes.
- Finish with sesame oil and scallions and serve with rice.
Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dakgalbi Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Dakgalbi Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Japchae Glass Noodle Stir-Fry |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Dakgalbi Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, cabbage, and sweet potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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