Soy Braised Potatoes (Gamja Jorim)
The creator demonstrates soy-braised potato with carrot, onion and pepper. The video's cooking wine and corn syrup are absent from FOOD; do not add them. Follow FOOD's 550 g potatoes, 45 ml soy sauce and cooking times rather than video measurements. Observe soy, wheat and sesame allergens.
Official cooking video · Korean Bapsang · YOUTUBEKorean Soy-Sesame Potato and Carrot Gamja Jorim
Four servings of tender Korean potato and carrot cubes glazed with sweet-savory soy sauce and sesame.
Ingredients
servings: 4 · Check ingredients
Steps
- 01
Peel 550 g potatoes, remove eyes and green parts, cube to 2 cm and rinse in cold water five minutes. Cube 90 g carrot, 100 g onion and 80 g bell pepper similarly.
- 02
Mix 45 ml soy sauce, 180 ml water, 15 g sugar, 8 g garlic and 0.5 g pepper. Heat 15 ml oil over medium heat and sauté drained potatoes 4–5 minutes until edges turn slightly translucent.
- 03
Pour in seasoning and add 90 g carrots. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer over medium-low heat 7–9 minutes until potatoes are nearly tender. Add a little water and cook 2–3 minutes more if needed.
Test the largest 2-cm potato piece with a fork. If the sauce dries before the potato is nearly tender, add 30 ml hot water, cover and cook in 2–3 minute increments until the center softens. - 04
Add onion and pepper and simmer uncovered 3–5 minutes until glossy and slightly thickened. Once a fork passes through potatoes easily, switch off heat, stir in 5 ml sesame oil and 5 g toasted sesame and serve four.
Soy-sugar glaze can scorch rapidly over high heat. Stop when a thin shiny coating clings to the potatoes and a little sauce remains in the pan. If overly concentrated, stir in a little water.
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Before you cook
Soy sauce contains soy and commonly wheat; sesame oil and seeds contain sesame. Discard badly green or sprouted potatoes and chill leftovers at 4°C or below within two hours.
Allergens: soy and wheat (soy sauce), sesame (sesame oil and seeds)
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