Soups

Spicy shredded beef soup

Boiled and shredded brisket, green onions, bracken, and bean sprouts are boiled in a spicy manner.

Prep
25 min
Cook
105 min
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Yukgaejang with brisket, green onions, bracken, and bean sprouts

Scale the recipe

Base quantities · 4 servings · beef brisket (Raw weight after trimming excess surface fat) 450 g

Ingredients

beef brisket Raw weight after trimming excess surface fat
450 g
water
12 C
Cooked fernbrake
160 g
Mung bean sprouts
160 g
Large green onion (daepa)
180 g
Onion for the broth
100 g

Seasonings

Korean chili flakes (gochugaru)
3 T
Korean soup soy sauce (guk-ganjang)
2 T
chopped garlic
1 T
sesame oil
1 T

Level measures: 1 T (tablespoon) = 15 mL, 1 C (paper cup) = 180 mL. Household spoons and cups can vary in size.

Method

  1. Start the brisket broth

    Cut the onion 100 g into large pieces. Bring it to a boil with the beef brisket 450 g and water 12 C, then skim the foam.

    Beef brisket boiled in water in a pot
  2. Simmer the brisket until tender

    Simmer over medium-low heat for about 75 minutes, until a chopstick enters easily. Check that the brisket centre holds at or above 75°C for 1 minute.

    A chopstick checking the tenderness of brisket simmered with onion
  3. Lift out the brisket and let it cool briefly

    Transfer the brisket to a clean plate and let it cool slightly.

    Cooked brisket cooling on a clean plate
  4. Strain the broth

    Pour the stock through a fine-mesh strainer to remove the solids. Skim off any excess fat from the surface.

    Clear beef stock passing through a fine-mesh strainer
  5. Cut the bracken and scallions

    Cut the cooked bracken 160 g and scallions 180 g into 5 cm lengths.

    Trimmed bracken and thick-cut scallions on a cutting board
  6. Rinse and drain the mung bean sprouts

    Rinse and drain the mung bean sprouts 160 g.

    Mung bean sprouts beside cut bracken and scallions
  7. Shred the brisket along the grain

    Shred the cooled brisket along the grain.

    Cooked brisket pulled into long strands along the grain
  8. Season the brisket and bracken

    Toss the beef and cooked bracken with gochugaru 3 T, soup soy sauce 2 T, minced garlic 1 T and sesame oil 1 T.

    Shredded brisket and bracken seasoned with red pepper powder
  9. Simmer the seasoned beef and bracken

    Add seasoned meat, bracken, and green onions to the soup and simmer for about 15 minutes.

    Seasoned brisket, bracken and scallions simmering before the sprouts are added
  10. Add and cook the mung bean sprouts

    Add bean sprouts and boil for another 4-5 minutes.

    Green onions, meat, and bean sprouts cooking in red soup