Easy braised beef short ribs

Hi everybody!

Yay, it’s time to have party with this dish! : )

Galbijjim is a popular Korean  dish made with beef short ribs and it’s considered an unskippable  dish on special occasions in Korea. I uploaded my traditional galbijjim video a long time ago, in 2008! This is a newer version that I developed that’s very easy, simple, and quick to make. It’s very juicy, tender, and sweet.

Enjoy the recipe and let me know how yours turns out!

Serves 2-3

Cooking time: about 1½ hours

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of beef short ribs, trimmed of excess fat. Score them down to the bone a few times. Rinse, soak in cold water, and drain.
• 1 large onion (1½ cups’ worth), pureed
• 6-8 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 bosc pears (about 1½ cups’ worth), peeled, cored, and pureed
• 2 ts worth of ginger, minced
• 3 tbs soy sauce
• 1 tbs brown sugar
• ½ ts ground black pepper
• 1 ts toasted sesame oil
• 1 tbs toasted toasted sesame seeds
• green peas and pine nuts for garnish (optional)
  

Directions

1. Blanch the ribs in boiling water for 5 minutes. Rinse them in cold water and drain.
   
   
2. Put the ribs in a heavy bottomed pot. Add onion, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, pears, soy sauce,  ground black pepper, and 1 cup of water.
3. Cover and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes.
4. Give it a good stir and turn down the heat. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
5. Open the lid and turn up the heat. Keep stirring and cooking until the ribs turn shiny and the juice is almost gone.
6. Add green peas (if used), drizzle the sesame oil, and mix well. Transfer to a serving plate and garnish with toasted sesame seeds and pine nuts (if used).

Serve with rice, kimchi, soup, and more side dishes if you want.

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