Kalbi Chim Recipes

KOREAN BEEF SHORT RIB STEW (GALBI JJIM)

Steps:

• Cover the ribs with cold water, refrigerate, and soak for 1 hour. Drain the ribs, place in a saucepan with 4 cups of water, and bring to a boil. Cook the ribs for 10 minutes, drain, and reserve 2 cups of liquid. Place the ribs and the reserved liquid in a large pot.
• Mix together the soy sauce, garlic, onion, rice wine, and brown sugar in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Pour the mixture over the ribs and broth. Stir to combine, bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
• Mix in the carrots, potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, corn syrup, sesame oil, chestnuts, and dates, and simmer until the meat and vegetables are very tender, about 1 more hour.
• Remove the beef and vegetables to a serving dish, and reduce the liquid in the pot to make a thickened gravy. Pour the sauce over the ribs and vegetables, sprinkle with sliced green onion, and serve.

GALBIJJIM (BRAISED BEEF SHORT RIBS)

Steps:

• Trim off any excess fat. Rinse the ribs and let them sit in cold water for about 30 minutes to draw out excess blood. Drain.
• In a large pot, bring 5 cups of water to a boil over high heat along with the onion, ginger, garlic and scallion white parts. Add the short ribs, and bring it to a boil, uncovered, skimming off the foam. Reduce the heat to medium high and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove the ribs to a plate, reserving the stock.
• Strain the stock, and skim off the fat. (Refrigerating the stock will help the fat solidify for easier removal. If you have room in the freezer, the process will go faster.)
• Mix together all the braising liquid ingredients, except the sesame oil. Return the ribs to the pot. Pour the braising liquid over the meat and stir. (You can prepare the ribs up to this point the day before, and finish braising when you need to serve.)
• Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables and optional garnish.
• Add 2-1/2 cups of the reserved stock to the ribs. Cover and bring it to a boil over medium heat. Continue to boil for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the thickness of the ribs. Stir in the radish, mushrooms, and carrots. Continue to boil, covered, for about 20 minutes.
• Stir in the optional garnish ingredients. Return to boil, uncovered this time, for an additional 10 minutes, or until the sauce is thicker and the meat is tender but not falling apart. Add the green parts of scallions and the sesame oil and stir gently before turning the heat off.

STEWED KOREAN SHORT RIBS (KALBI JIM)

Steps:

• Score the surface of each beef short rib in a diamond pattern. Combine beef, green onion, carrots, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and brown sugar in a large skillet. Pour enough water to cover the beef. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer until beef is tender, about 1 hour. Skim off excess oil before serving.

KALBI-CHIM

Steps:

• Score ribs diagonally, and place in a large bowl. Add sugar, and rub into the meat. Rub sesame oil into the meat, and let rest for 15 minutes. Add garlic, scallions, ginger, sherry, tamari and mirin. Rub into meat, and marinate, refrigerated, 2 to 3 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a Dutch oven or other covered pan large enough to hold ribs in one layer, heat 1 tablespoon peanut oil over medium heat; add chopped onion and minced carrot. Saute until vegetables are tender, 5 minutes. Place ribs on vegetables, meat side down. Add marinade, broth and wine. Bring to a boil on top of stove; cover and place in oven for 1 hour.
• While meat is in oven, reconstitute mushrooms by adding boiling water to cover and soaking until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain, pat dry with paper towels and slice thinly. In a small skillet over medium-low heat, heat remaining tablespoon peanut oil, and add mushrooms slices. Saute until lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Set aside.
• Remove pan from oven, skim fat, and turn ribs meat side up. Add mushrooms, carrot chunks, chestnuts and chopped pear or apple. Cover, and return to oven 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until liquid is almost evaporated.
• Before serving, skim fat from liquid in pan. Accompany with rice, kimchi and other Korean condiments and side dishes. Kalbi-chim improves with rest, and may be made the day before, refrigerated and reheated for about 10 minutes in a 350-degree oven.

KOREAN KALBI JJIM (BRAISED BEEF SHORT RIBS)

Steps:

• Soak short ribs in cold water in a large bowl for at least 30 minutes to remove residual blood. (Optional step) In a large pot over high heat, place the beef short ribs with pieces of halved onions, whole garlic, and ginger pieces. Bring to a rapid boil for at least 20~30 minutes while removing scum from surface. When finished save about 2 cups of broth for later use, rinse the beef under cold water, and discard remaining greens and vegetables. When cool enough to handle, make slits or incisions in each short ribs. Remove or cut away excess fat (optional). Return the ribs to the pot with 2 cups of the beef broth and sauce ingredients, cooking for at least 1 hour on low heat. Add the golf ball sized potatoes, carrots, dried dates, and mushrooms with 15 minutes remaining and continue to simmer. Near the end of the hour when most of the broth has thickened or evaporated, add some mulyeot (corn syrup) or honey. The sauce should have a slight syrupy consistency. Serve on a large platter as main course. Garnish with green onion slices and enjoy with rice and banchan (side dishes).

KALBI CHIM

Steps:

• soak beef in cold water for 2 hrs. dispose water. blanch beef. soak beef again for 2 hours. cover beef in clean water in pot. cover about 1 inch above beef. add dry mushrooms, korean radish. boil for 10min. reduce heat. when water line hits beef (~20min), add soy sauce, garlic, carrot. right before serving add, green pepper.