Potato with soy sauce
(“gamja jorim”)
Gamja jorim (potato side dish) used to be my regular lunch box menu. My mother sometimes added small dried anchovies and carrot, and sometimes she added ham cut into dice like potato. I used to make this all the time as my children’s lunch box side dish, too.
Ingredients:
2-3 medium sized potatoes, onion, 2 cloves garlic, soy sauce, 1 tbs corn syrup, 1 tbs sugar, half cup of water.
- Peel the potatoes, wash, and cut them into 1 inch dice and make 2 cups.
- Rinse the potato using colander in running water to remove starch.
- Cut half onion into bite sized pieces.
- Heat the pan and add 1-2 tbs olive oil and pour the potato into the pan.
- Add 2 cloves of minced garlic and sauté it until the potato look a little translucent, then add the onion and keep stirring it.
- Add half cup of water into the pan, 2 tbs – 2½ tbs soy sauce (depends on your taste), 1 tbs of sugar, 1 tbs of corn syrup and mix it and simmer it over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the liquid is evaporated.Tip: Keep checking and stirring not to burn it and to cook evenly, if it needs more water, add some.
- When the potato is cooked, turn off the stove and add 1 tbs of sesame oil and sprinkle a pinch of sesame seeds.
Potato with mushroom
(“gamjachae bokkeum”)
This potato dish can be made only using potato. I found the taste turns out very good when white oyster mushroom is added. By using white oyster mushroom, this color of dish is still clean white. If you don’t have mushrooms, just use potato as it is.
Ingredients:
1 medium size of potatoes, 2 cloves garlic, 2 white oyster mushrooms, half onion, ½ ts to1 ts of salt, 1 to 2 tbs olive oil, 1 tbs sesame oil, 4 to 5 tbs of water.
Tip: If you only use potatoes, use 2 medium size potatoes and ½ cup of water.
- Peel the potatoes and wash and cut them into julienne strips.
- Wash the potato in running water using a colander to remove starch.
- Cut the mushrooms into julienne strips.
- Slice the onion and mince 2 cloves of garlic.
- In a heated pan, add 2 tbs of olive oil and add the potato strips. Stir it with a wooden spoon for 1 minute.
- Add 4-5 tbs water and lower the heat over lower heat to cook and stir it.
- Cover the lid of the pan and simmer it for a few minutes.
- Open the lid and add garlic and the mushroom strips and sauté until potato strips are fully cooked.
- Add ½ ts to1 ts of salt (depends on your taste), 1 tbs of sesame oil and turn off the heat.
- Garnish with chopped red pepper and green onion.
Maangchi,
The gamja jorim turned out soo good! My 5 year old daughter loved it. The potatoes have such a savory flavor and goes well with anything or by itself. Yay!
Thanks so much~ My 2nd dish came out great, but not very well for the first one, it came out too mushy and not enough sauce and the taste wasnt what i ate at korean restuarants unfortunately . Well I guess im lacking a bit of age/ experience XD im 14 only
It sounds like your cooking skill is already getting better. Gratz!
hiya maangachi, i googled for potato salad and found this site. i am wondering do you have the recipe for a potato side dish which in dark soy sauce and sweet? i try in a restaurant before but that restaurant don serve it anymore and my housemate and i are craving for it… thanks..
yes, check this out.
http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/potato-side-dishes
Hi Maangchi, I love your recipes =D
I tried some of them, and it turned out really successful.
I was wondering if you can post some Korean Radish sidedish recipes.
Thank you so much!!
Have you checked my cooked radish recipe?
http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/muwoonamul
More radish recipes will be coming in the future.
Thank you!
질문이 있어요. Whenever I make anything with potatoes like the two dishes you listed, my potatos always come out mushy on the sides. I try to fry it a little longer but it doesn’t look as firm as yours.
어떻게 할까요?
I would reduce the cooking time.
Hi Maangchi! I have been craving a taste of my childhood so from your website I am making yukgaechang, gamcha jorim for dinner, tonight. I have kimchi from the Korean market and some fried mondu will round out dinner. I am so glad to have found your website! Thanks so much!
I’m so glad to be found by you! : ) It sounds like you have been cooking Korean dishes quite a lot! Yukgaejang is delicious, right?
http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/yukgaejang
Happy cooking!
Dear Ms Maangchi,
I was in Korea last December-09. I’d tried sort like this potato which sell on the shop lot located just opposite of ticket counter to Nami island. I wonder if this is the same dish bcoz the potato that I bought looks a bit dryer than in the picture here. It had a sweet and bit crispy skin, nice and tender inside. I really fall in love with the potato and wish can make it on my own. Oh, I’m from Malaysia by the way. :) If anybody who read my comment happen to know the recipe, please let me know. Very much thank you and I love dak-bulgogi!
For these 2 potato dishes, can it be stored refrigerated till ready to eat?
Or it must be consumed immediately after preparing it? Meaning, it can’t be stored at all
yes, you can keep it in the refrigerator for several hours before eating, but it tastes the best right after making it.
Hi Maangchi! I made this for my sisters as a midnight snack and it was awesome!! i didn’t have enough corn syrup so i substituted it with some honey instead. and we used some realllly dark thick chinese mushroom soya sauce…. it still turned out great, but i wonder if it’d taste different with the normal recipe =P but anyway. thanks for sharing!! :)
I think the taste is almost the same as mine. : )
Hi Ms. Maangchi~
I made both of these dishes tonight because I had a small bag of potatoes just sitting in my cupboard. The thing is I had ran out of onions today so the flavor wasn’t as deep as it could have been but it still tasted good! In the gamjachae bokeum I added some hot dogs cut up. hehe
I want to show you my pictures… but I don’t really know where I should post them. Do I just show you a link? Following your recipes is helping me improve my cooking by a lot! :)
Hi,Ken,
I can’t wait to see the photos of food that you made!
Email me at maangchi@gmail.com, Or check this out please
You added hot dogs to your gamjachae bokkeum? It sounds great!
Thanks for the recipe!!! I love this potato and your website was very helpful!!!
Thank you very much!
Hi Maangchi,
This recipe was a great help. Love the video. Very helpful. My wife and I just learned how to make bulgogi, and this was the perfect side dish to go with it! We’re going to try all your other recipes and tutorials very soon.
We were wondering if the bean sprout side dish we’ve had at a Korean restaurant is prepared the same way?
Yes, I think so. Kongnamul muchim (soybean sprout side dish) is a very common Korean side dish.
Hello Maangchi,
I love your website. I’m half Korean and I love korean food but my mom never taught me how to cook Korean food, so I just love watching your videos.
I just made this dish for my family and it was great! :)
Thank you and Take Care.
Nice! Yeah try out more recipes! : )
i was wondering…my mom told me that if u put soy sauce on the pan while you’re cooking,it’ll start to smell bad o.o doesn’t it smell bad? coz i watched almost all ur vids n you’ve put soy sauce on the pan many times =D lolz
I don’t think soy sauce smells bad!
I think that’s if your pan is too hot and the soy sauce burns. Then it starts to smell bad but I agree with Maangchi, soy sauce smells good!
Hi Maangchi,
I enjoy reading your recipes. Hope you can post a lotus root side dish recipe, which is quite similar to gamja jorim. I tried this side dish during a food festival in Singapore and i like it very much.
Thank you.
yes, lotus root side dish is called Yeongeun jorim
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_cuisine-Yeongeun_jorim-01.jpg
I will post the recipe someday later, thanks!
Mmm your recipe helped me make my boyfriend’s favorite panchan! Thank you! I love your video, it really helped :)
Wonderful news! : )
Hi Maangchi!
I tried the second potato side dish yesterday! It came out great :) I’m so proud that I can finally eat what I cook! Here’s the pictures for them!
Oh I’m sorry, I guess the html code didn’t work, but here’s the link for anyone that would like to see. I know it helped me a lot when other people shared their pictures as well :)
gamjachae bokkeum
Gamja jorim
Beautiful! Your 2 kinds of potato side dishes look like mine! Of course you followed the recipe tightly. : )
Thank you for sharing the photos!
may i know potato side dishes the taste is sweet more than than salty or satly more than sweet ? ^^
Maangchi, I can’t express how much I love your website! I hardly ever write comments online, but I had to let you know how much you have changed my life. I discovered your site from another korean recipe site my sister referred to me. I looked at the recipes on the other site, but instantly found your videos posted on that site to be the saving grace to my failed attempts at korean cooking, or more appropriately lack of attempts at korean cooking. My husband and I both grew up eating korean food and love it, but never learned how to make it from our mothers. I have tried written recipes from other websites, but without success and always went back to cooking non-korean food. But with your delicious recipes and enthusiastically simple teaching, I feel like I can make everything on your site. In fact I have already made deonjang jjigae, gye ran jjim, gamja jorim, korean salad, daegu jeon, and zucchini jeon this past weekend with success. But more importantly, I have found a new, enthusiastic love for korean cooking thanks to you. You should have your own show on the Food Network! Also fyi, I used agave syrup instead of corn syrup as I didn’t have any, and the gamja jorim turned out great. Thanks again, Maangchi, I can’t wait to try out more recipes!
omg, this is a terrific compliment! You are making me happy tonight!
Your site is wonderful! I love your interpretation on traditional Korean recipes. You’re really a lifesaver as I use your recipes to cook for my husband all the time. My husband now wants me to cook authentic Korean recipes for his parents! The Korean-American side of me wants to run away from the challenge but I know that I can do it, especially with your help!
I’ve tried out many of your recipes but I can’t seem to get the gamja jorim correct. How do you prevent the potatoes from going mushy? I want to cook them crispy like yours!
Thank You!!
Thank you for sharing your story related to Korean cooking. It sounds like you are treasure in your family because they rely on your Korean cooking. : )
If your gamjajorim turns out too mushy, cook the potatoes for shorter time than I do in my recipe. Your stove may be hotter than mine. In my recipe, “…over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the liquid is evaporated..” So instead of 10 minutes, cook 5-7 minutes.
I love going to a korean restaurant and getting all those side things (potatoes, seaweed,beansprouts etc.) with our meal, but can’t seem to get recipes- where do I look for them?