[0:02] [Music] Hi everybody. Today's recipe is jjimdak 
or dakjjim, braced chicken with vegetables. It's  
[0:11] very delicious, flavorful, and colorful. Also 
generous, so it's perfect for enjoying with  
[0:18] your family. These are glass noodles or starch 
noodles. I'm going to soak these in cold water.
[0:31] The soaking time needs around 40 minutes. 
So meanwhile we are going to prepare all  
[0:37] these ingredients. So it will be 
a perfect time that we can start  
[0:41] cooking. I use shredded green onions. 
This is daepa, a large green onion,  
[0:47] but you guys also can use just regular 
green onions. Make a thin strips.
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[1:08] I'm going to use this as a garnish later. 
I used only half of a large green onion.  
[1:15] This is also washed and soaked in 
cold water to remove some spiciness.
[1:31] This is my chicken. 2 pounds of chicken thigh. I  
[1:37] washed and pat dried with my paper towels. 
Cut into around 2 inch pieces like this.
[1:53] Add a little bit salt
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[2:02] and ground black pepper.
[2:10] Just mix.
[2:22] Noodles and green onion are soaking and chicken is 
now just cut into bite-sized pieces. Ready? Next,  
[2:30] let's make a sauce. 12 garlic cloves 
and also some ginger around 2 teaspoons.
[2:47] Just mix
[2:53] and add 2 tablespoon soy sauce.
[3:09] This is oyster sauce. add 2 tablespoons. [Music]  
[3:18] Rice syrup gives a little shininess and sweetness  
[3:25] but if you don't like to use 
any sweetener, just skip it
[3:33] and this is the kind of a secret! When you 
go to andong jjimdak place, its color is  
[3:42] very dark. They use a caramel sauce. It's kind 
of their special color. So I I like to use the  
[3:50] jjajang (black bean paste). You remember when 
you make Korean jjajangmyeon, we use this black  
[3:57] bean paste? In Korean chunjang, just use only 
1 tablespoon. This is 1 tablespoon. Mix well.
[4:14] Because of the rice syrup, the density is a little 
sticky like this. Okay, These are the vegetables  
[4:21] I'm using. Potatoes, I peeled and 
soaked in cold water not to brown them.
[4:33] And add onion.
[4:40] Medium size 1 onion.
[4:50] Mushrooms.
[4:56] White mushroom. Two small 
carrots. Cut like this thick.
[5:13] Green chili peppers.
[5:23] This red pepper is optional.
[5:35] and cucumber.
[5:44] We are going to use all of these. Oh these 
are dried small red peppers. Now all you  
[5:51] can do is to cook! Once we start cooking, 
we'll get very busy, make us very busy!  
[5:56] Be ready. Let's cook chicken, over medium 
high heat. Cooking oil. add generous amount.  
[6:04] I'm using canola oil, but you guys can 
use any type of cooking oil. Add dried  
[6:09] red pepper. They are turning a little 
brown color. It's time to take these out.
[6:23] This oil is very flavorful. Now it's time to 
cook the chicken. It's going to be so loud.
[6:40] Stir  
[6:41] a few times so that the chicken 
is not stick to the bottom. Let's  
[6:47] cook around 3 minutes over medium 
high heat. Then turn them over.
[7:00] Cook another 3 minutes. Now chicken looks a little 
light brown. Nice! Add only potato and onion.  
[7:16] These vegetables are very quickly cooked, so we 
are going to cook these a little later. And sauce!
[7:26] Add 2 cups of water.
[7:43] and then cover. Cook for 10 minutes over 
medium high heat. Next, soaked noodles.
[7:57] Look at this! It's such a nice broth! This potato 
is well cooked. And then add mushroom, carrot,  
[8:12] green chili pepper. These are just the last minute 
I'm going to add. Add noodles, fried the red chili  
[8:19] peppers. I will turn down the heat a little bit. 
I'm going to stir for 5 minutes like this so  
[8:28] that the noodles, the carrot, all this colorful 
vegetables and mushrooms will be nicely cooked.
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[8:49] Add red pepper and cucumber.
[8:54] and sesame oil.
[9:00] Just turn off.
[9:04] Cucumber needs just a few seconds to 
cook, beautiful green color. Green onion,
[9:16] sesame seeds. Okay.
[9:23] Mix with green onions.
[9:33] Let me taste!
[9:43] chicken.
[9:46] The chicken is very tender and flavorful. And 
I love the noodles. They're very chewy. Nice  
[9:54] crispy cucumber and carrot, too. All 
these combination is so good! Smells  
[10:00] good. My house is full of good smell! 
Today I showed you how to make jjimdak,  
[10:06] andong style version. Enjoy my 
recipe. See you next time. Bye!
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