Pan-fried meat & tofu patties (Wanja jeon: 완자전)
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- Hi everybody!
Today, I'm going to show you how to make
really easy, simple, delicious side dish.
It's called wanja-jeon.
It's meat and tofu patties.
This is a really great side dish for
Korean dosirak, lunch box.
I used to make this formy children all the time,
even for myself,
and its so easy, easilyyou can make it.
And also tasty and not dry, juicy
because we add tofu and vegetables.
meat, I'm using beef,
but you guys can use also pork,
or mix of beef and pork.
I will use half poundlean cut ground beef.
Then, lets add tofu.
116 grams, around four ounces.
And, just rinse in cold waterand wrap this in paper towel.
Let's squeeze this guy.
I just squeezed.
Total amount, around onetablespoon water was squeezed.
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Keep this tofu leftover and then we'll just
fill it up with water, cold water,
and keep in the refrigerator,
but, you gotta use in a couple of days.
And we gotta season this, so, onion
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onion, around 2 or 3 tablespoons,
amount chopped, minced onion.
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And we are going to addchopped green onion, and also
one garlic cloves
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This is one of my cookbook recipes too.
In my cookbook I didn't add a red color,
I like to add this carrot.
Just a little bit.
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Make this really small pieces.
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That's it, this amount.
I will add one teaspoon salt,
and half teaspoon soy sauce,
and ground black pepper.
And then, last one, what do you expect?
Sesame oil!
Really, last one, egg, one egg.
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I'm gonna mix this with my hand.
Before this, I like to wash.
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To mix this well, you gotta use your hand.
Make it sticky lump.
Like that.
Looks delicious!
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I use beef, but you canuse also shiitake mushroom.
If you want to use shiitake mushrooms,
should be dried shiitake mushrooms
soak in water until really flexible,
and then you just squeeze out water
and then chop it up, really small pieces
and then just use this way, method.
All purpose flour here,
and then I'm going to...around this,
I'm going to make shape these.
Look like a hamburger patty, isn't it?
When you cook this, thisbeef is going to be,
the center part isgoing up, Expand.
So just press here inthe center part, like that.
And then, let's coat.
Before coating,I'm going to use another one.
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Yes.
Nice beautiful shape
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So you can sprinkle some on the bottom
so it's not to stick to each other later.
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16 disks meat patties
And then, we are going to pan fry these.
Just before frying them, weare going to dip this in egg.
I use two eggs, but
one egg plus one egg yolk
because, the egg yolk makes it yellow.
(crack) I want more yellowcolor, beautiful color
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Wow, I got it!
And then, a pinch of salt.
Well mix.
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Let's pan fry these guys! and oil.
Grapeseed oil, egg, and patties here.
I will use medium heatinstead of medium high
because I don't want to brown my pancakes.
Add some oil.
Pan is heated.
Take one and coat,
dip this in egg,
like this.
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I will just divide two batches, so, eight.
When you make this pancake, youhave to really focus on this
otherwise its going to go brown.
It should look pretty
I really don't want to lose yellows color
Nice, light, goldenbrown, when the bottom is
we just flip it over.
I cook this one minute.
You can add some more oil.
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Another couple of minutes,
turn over.
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I like to clean this up.
My second batch.
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Almost I have to clean up around here.
One minute later.
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ok turn off
and transfer these.
Done.
This is dill, I'm goingto use nice garnish.
I'm going to make lunch box.
Spinach, sigeumchi namul.
Rice, and wanja-jeon
I will just put wanja-jeon in, like this.
This is side dish.
Small anchovy
Anchovies, I stir fried, and I just mixed with seasonings.
Kind of spicy, spicy and crunchy.
This is very salty.
here,
sigeumchi namul.
This is black sesame seeds.
This is lunch box.
And napkin, chopsticks, that's it.
This is a lunch box.
It is kind of heavy.
This is a good size of dosirak for
maybe a junior high school student,
or elementary schoolfifth-grader. (laughs)
I have a really funny story.
When I lived in Korea,
at that time I had never been to America
and there was my friendwho came from America.
She studied in America for long time,
and she then came and lived just near us.
One of my friends asked her,
"Oh, I don't know what to do,
"My husband's friend,he comes from America.
"He is visiting us, Idon't know what to make,
"what kind of food can impress him?"
We Koreans think the reallybest top quality food
is really difficult food,like some mountain delicacy.
Some dried sweet potato stems, fernbrake
or, you know, it takes alot of time to prepare.
But my friend who camefrom America, she said,
"Why don't you make wanja-jeon?
"All Americans love hamburger.
"Korean wanja-jeon issimilar to hamburger,
"and besides, more tasty.
"When I lived inAmerica I used to make this,
"when we had a party,it always just runs out quickly."
So she just gave us a good tip.
at the timeI'd never been to America
I thought, "wow, interesting,
wanjajeon, making wanja-jeon is such easy,
I all the time make this for lunch box,
but Americans really love this?
That's very interesting to me."
That means, youguys are making this
and then you will be popular.
Make it really nicely yellow color.
Don't lose yellow color bycooking over medium heat,
instead of medium highheat, or it will turn brown.
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Mmmm
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When I chew this, allthese textures are different,
meaty and juicy, succulent,
so tasty.
Today, we made wanja-jeon,meat and tofu patties.
Enjoy my recipes, see you next time
Bye!
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Pan-fried meat and tofu patties, called wanja-jeon in Korean. http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/wanja-jeon They’re savory, soft, and juicy with a meaty texture. It’s an all-time favorite item in Korean lunch boxes, but also for special occasions, too.