This video was made for YouTube’s NextUp program. They asked me to make something that explains my background, my goals, and what I expect to learn from the YouTube Creator’s camp. It’s supposed to be short and reflect my interests and personality, so I chose a simple and delicious mungbean sprout side dish recipe called sukjunamul.
I learned this recipe from my mom. I called her this morning in California to get some of the background behind it, or to get any interesting story relating to the dish.
I said: “Mom, my next video recipe is sukjunamul. Where did you learn this recipe? Do you have any story relating to sukjunamul?”
My mom replied: “Oh~, sukjunamul! When I go to a Korean buffet with my friends, I always make bibimbap with sukjujanmul, mushrooms… oh such delicious and healthy food!”
I listened to her story about her buffet choice and with whom she went, but I still didn’t get the answer!
“Mom, mom… that’s not my question! Where did you learn the recipe? Do you remember?”
My mother laughed, and said: “Oh, ho ho, ho! I don’t remember. All over Korea?”
My mom is so cute when she gets older. After hanging up the phone, I felt a little guilty for being rude. I should have been more patient and I should be nicer to her.
I always make my sukjunamul this way. It’s a simple and easy recipe, and delicious! Just as my mom said, when it’s mixed with a few more vegetables, rice, hot pepper paste, and sesame oil, it’s even more delicious!
Ingredients
(for 2-4 servings):
Mung bean sprouts, salt, garlic, green onion, cucumber, sesame seeds, and sesame oil
Directions
- Wash and drain 12 oz (340 grams: about 3½ cups’ worth) of mung bean sprouts in cold water a couple of times until they’re clean. Pick out any brownish rotten beans.
- Put them in a pot and add ½ cup water and ¼ ts salt.
- Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat for 5 mins.
- Rinse in cold water, strain, and set aside.
- Cut about 1 cup’s worth of seedless cucumbers into matchsticks and put into a bowl.
- Add ½ ts salt to the cucumbers. Mix and set aside for a few minutes.
- Squeeze any excess water out of the cooked mung bean sprouts and put them into a mixing bowl.
- Squeeze any excess water out of the cucumber strips and add them to the sprouts in the mixing bowl.
- Add 1 clove of minced garlic, 1 chopped green onion, ½ ts salt, 1 ts sesame oil, and 1 ts sesame seeds to the mixing bowl.
- Mix well by hand.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and serve with rice.
Posted on Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 1:21 am.
Last updated on October 26, 2015.
Tagged: korean food, Korean kitchen, Maangchi's global cooking show, Maangchi's Nextup, Maanghi is YouTube Nextup, mungbean sprout side dish, nokdunamul, side dish, sukjuoinamul, vegetarian side dish, YouTube Nextup
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Perfect. I have some bean sprouts left from making Vietnamese egg rolls a few days ago. Will make this for dinner tonight. Thank Maangchi!
hello Maangchi thank you so much for your website that gives alot delicious recipes. I am now in love with one of Korean dish called ssam jang, Will you please teach me how to make it at home? Thank you
yes, ssamjang is really good stuff. You can dip any of your fresh vegetables. Check out my grilled beef, samgyeopsal gui (pork belly), LA galbi recipes. You will find ssamjang recipes.
Got up at 3:30 am to cook this. I added some hot pepper flakes and had it for breakfast. All I can say is Mmmmmmmmmmm! Being from Hawaii there are a lot of Korean take out places there. After ordering your meat (Bulgogi, Kal-bi, Meat Jun….or some combo therein) you could pick two to three side dishes. Besides Mac Salad (a local thing) I would select Cabbage kimchi and bean sprouts.,,your recipe makes me homesick (in a good way)…Thanks…making radish salad tomorrow along with Bulgogi and Mac Salad (just to keep it “local style” …as we say in Hawaii)
Aloha, I am also from Hawaii!! I love this site as it brings home to me flavors I have only been able to get if I go to a restaurant and in CT, there are not too many Korean restaurants.
This is my favorite side dish and I am going to attempt to make this right now. Wish me luck.
H-Mart had a great deal on soybean sprouts that were just gorgeous, so I made this dish with those instead of mung bean sprouts. Also, I didn’t have any cucumber, so I left that out. It is so delicious! Another time I’ll try it your way, Maangchi! I’m on a cooking spree. Right now I’ve got soybean side dish on the stove and am about to make a batch of kimchijeon :D
Check out my kongnamul muchim (soybean sprout side dish) recipe. Cheers! https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kongnamul-muchim
What is the orange-red garnish you put on top of the mung bean sprouts at the end? I didn’t see it mentioned in the recipe, video or comments. Thanks.
It’s shilgochu (shredded dried red pepper). https://www.maangchi.com/ingredients/shredded-red-pepper
Hi Maangchi,
This has been a favorite since I was little. My halmoni said the bean sprouts made me so tall. She recently passed and I am glad I was shown your website so I can make a dish I love so much.Do you have the amount of red pepper flake you should use for the spicy version? Or is it just to taste? Thanks!
I sprout my own fresh mung beans from seeds, in the kitchen in only 4 days. I am starting a sprout jar tonight and will be trying this recipe by next week and will contribute a photo.
The mung bean project photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1704502693410.2086870.1263286714&l=719e7ed0a9
Thank you for the link! I have never grown mungbean sprouts from dried mung beans. Interesting and I’m impressed. Please upload the photos with your description on the forum for my other readers.
You can create the topic “How to grow mungbean sprouts at home” https://www.maangchi.com/talk/forum/reader-recipes
Then I can refer people to it. It will be a big help for those who are interested in growing their own mungbean sprouts.
I made the Sukjunamul following the recipe with my home sprouted mung beans. The practice dish turned out great and I will be making it tomorrow for dinner with friends. After trying the published recipe and liking it, I then decided to try it with more ingredients like those used for the kongnamul muchim. I added a small amount of sugar about 1/2 tsp of hot korean red pepper powder and just about 2 tbsp of soy sauce (i use an alternative soy sauce for my gluten intolerant friends; Braggs Liquid Aminos, a vegetable protein amino that works almost just as soy sauce.) This too was VERY GOOD. You should try a small batch of yours with a bit of sugar, soy sauce and red pepper powder.. Would that then make the dish go by another name? I will upload the mung bean album soon, that would be a great idea!
Thank you for your update and sharing your tips with us!
Yey!!And I have been making use of mungbean sprouts (sukju) as substitute for kungnamol since I can’t find soybean sprouts in my area and failed miserably sprouting them before. I just have to check how you made use of mung bean. Almost everything is done same with kungnamol muchim except for gochukaro and cucumber.
I will try this soon and see how hubby will like it with the cucumber.
Cheers for the nextup…hope to see your vids getting better and better. (Like the tons of foods made bcoz of them still aren’t enough proof that your on the right track.)
P.S. Any plans of going to PHP? :)
I made this dish with your “emergency kim chee”. Both came out super. My wife is from Korea and she said it tasted like her mom’s! Thank ou Maangchi for sharing all your terrific recipes!
Wow, Congrats on being chosen for NextUp! I came upon your site by chance and have done two of your receipes (Japchae and Jiajungmyun). Can’t wait to try this simple side dish at home.
Great! Let me know how your sukjunamul turns out. Happy cooking! : )
Maangchi! You are soo cute! And I think you are one of the best cooks in the world! You are so good at what you do and deserve all the recognition you receive. :D I wish you many more wonderful experiences with food and traveling and life in general. <3
Thank you very much Andrea! Your good wish makes me really feel warm this morning!
HI MAANGCHI HOW LONG HTE BEAN SPROUT SIDE DISHES CAN KEEP IN THE REFRIGENERATOR AFTER COOKED? THANK YOU SO MUCH
You can keep it in the fridge for a few days.
Grats! I’m very proud of you. You’ve come a long way, and I’m sure you still have much more ahead of you.
“Gratz!” haha, thank you Z!
Fantastic news! I am so pleased for you- I hope you enjoy the camp and I so look forward to following you in the coming years. If you have a chance to come to Wisconsin, be sure to try our world-famous wild Ginseng. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful recipes and your videos! Very best wishes and thank you, thank you, thank you! You deserve it!
Thanks a lot! The wild ginseng sounds interesting!
so glad you’re chosen for nextup!! thank you so much for the recipe!! it’s so tasty.
for how long can sukjunamul and gogumajulgi namul be kept for in the fridge by the way?
You will have to finish eating it in a few days, otherwise it will go bad.