Barbecued Beef Recipe - Bulgogi

RECIPES OF KOREA

One of the most celebrated dish of Korea, a national cuisine one might say. Traditionally Bulgogi is made by cooking slices of marinated beef over wood fire. These days it is commonly found to be cooked over a table-top gas grills.

Ingredients :

500g

1/4 cup

1/2 cup

2 cloves

3

1 tablespoon

1 tablespoon

Scotch fillet or sirloin steak

White sesame seeds

Soy sauce

Finely chopped garlic

finely chopped spring onions

Sesame oil

Cooking oil

• Freeze the steak for 30 minutes.
• Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes, shaking the pan gently, until the seeds are golden brown.
• Remove from the pan at once to prevent burning.
• Crush the seeds in a food mill or with a mortar and pestle.
• Slice the steak into thin strips, cutting across the natural grain of the meat.
• Combine the steak, soy sauce, garlic, spring onions and half the sesame seeds, mixing well.
• Marinate for 2 hours.
• Combine the oils and brush them onto a cast-iron grill-plate, heavy-based frying pan or barbecue plate.
• Heat to very hot and cook the meat in 3 batches, searing each side for about 1 minute (don't overcook the steak or it will become chewy).
• Re-brush the grill with oil and allow it to reheat to very hot between batches.
• Sprinkle the extra crushed sesame seeds over the steak and serve with Kim Chi