Spicy Korean Fish Cake Side Dish
Grace Stewart
Spicy Korean fish cake is a super easy and delicious banchan, or Korean side dish! Slices of fish cake are stir fried with beautiful Korean peppers in a hot and spicy sauce which you won't be able to get enough of!
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 3 minutes mins
Total Time 13 minutes mins
Course accompaniment, Side Dish
Cuisine Korean
- 150 grams fish cake sheets sliced into ½" - 1" strips; the fish cake sheets I used are 6"x4" and 150 grams is 2.5 sheets
- ⅓ cup Korean green chili peppers deseeded, white pith removed and sliced thinly. You can sub green bell peppers or green onions
- ⅓ cup Korean red chili peppers deseeded, white pith removed and sliced thinly. You can sub red bell peppers
- ⅓ cup onion select a small onion and sliced thinly
- 2 ts olive oil
Spicy Sauce Ingredients
- 2 ts Korean red pepper flakes aka gochugaru
- 1.5 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 ts mirin can sub ½ ts sugar
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1.5 ts sesame oil
Garnish
- ½ ts sesame seeds
- black pepper optional; some freshly ground black pepper to taste is delightful!
Prepare your fish cake sheets by cutting them into strips between ½"-1". Deseed the red and green peppers and remove the pith. Then slice the red and green peppers and onion thinly, and place this aside.
Make the sauce by combining the gochugaru (red pepper flakes), soy sauce, mirin, garlic, and sesame oil.
Place your wok or large skillet on medium high heat. Add the olive oil. When the oil is hot add the onions and peppers and stir fry constantly for 1 minute.
Now add the fish cake slices and continue to stir fry constantly for 1 minute.
Time to add the spicy sauce! Once again, stir fry constantly for 1 minute.
Then take off the heat and garnish with sesame seeds and some freshly ground black pepper (optional) and your dish is ready to serve!
You can make a delicious non-spicy version of this dish by omitting the gochugaru.
Serve with rice and as a side dish to accompany your favorite Korean bbq!
맛있어요 Mashisoyo!
Keyword Banchan, korean food, korean spicy fish cakes, koreansidedish, side dish