Berserker's Sweet Stewed Beef - Galbi-jjim
This sweet beefy dish is absolutely delicious and will give your DnD party a buff to their Strength stat. A slightly modified Galbi-Jjim that's a mix of savory and sweet like no other!
Servings 4 adventurers
Calories 970kcal
Cost 30 gold
Equipment
- Large cooking pot
Ingredients
- 3 pounds beef we used some short ribs, ribeye, and filet
- 1 white onion
- 3 - 4 thin ginger slices
- 7 whole garlic cloves
- 2 scallions white halves separated from green halves
Braising Liquid
- ½ cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp honey
- ¼ cup mirin
- ½ medium Asian pear grated
- ½ clove garlic minced
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- ½ tsp black pepper
Vegetables
- 10 oz daikon cut into large chunks about 1-1/2-inch cubes
- 4 dried shiitake mushrooms soaked and quartered
- 1 large carrot cut into large chunks about 1 inch long
Garnish
- 6 dried dates
- 2 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
Instructions
- Soak your ribs in cold water for 6 hours. This will drain any remaining blood out of them. Drain out the water and pat dry.
- Over a roaring cooking fire, boil 5 cups of water and put in the ginger, garlic, white parts of the scallions (save the green parts), and half the onion. Add the meat and bring to a boil uncovered. Reduce your cooking fire or stove to medium-high for 10 minutes. Pull the meat out from the liquid.
- Remove the vegetables from the stock using a strainer or colander, then put the stock into a fridge to help the fat solidify (this isn't entirely necessary if you don't mind fatty broth).
- Put the beef and all the braising ingredients into the pot and stir for a few minutes. While its sizzling, skim off any accumulated fat from the stock in the fridge.
- Add half the stock to the pot. Cover and boil with your cooking fire on medium heat for 30 minutes.
- While it's boiling, chop up your vegetables, along with the remaining half of the onion. After the 30 minutes, throw in the vegetables and boil covered for another 20.
- Throw in the dates and the green parts of the scallions, and stir uncovered for 10 minutes.
- Drizzle with some sesame oil and sesame seeds and serve to some hungry adventurers!
Notes
This take on Galbi-Jjim is one of our favorite recipes we've made. We set out originally to use really meaty short ribs, as is usual in Galbi-jjim, but had trouble finding some. So after some discussion with our local butcher they suggested subbing in some ribeye and filet mignon until we hit 3 pounds. We definitely weren't disappointed! This recipe takes a good deal of effort compared to some of our others, but you need to put in some work to get that sweet stat boost! Make this for your party for a +1 to their Strength for the session!