You will likely not find Korean stir-fried sausage served at a restaurant anywhere but in Korea.

I had almost forgotten about it, too ! It was sometimes served as a banchan (a small Korean side dish ; you get several of them with every meal) at the lunch cafeteria or in restaurants. I was always happy when a small plate of cute mini sausages and bell pepper appeared ; although quite simple, with a straight-forward ketchup and gochujang sauce, the taste was comforting and you kept wanting more of them.

In our modern lives though, I dare you to find the time to cook a main dish, 3 to 4 banchans and a soup, which is a basic Korean meal ! Therefore, I consider this Korean stir-fried sausage as a main dish, that you can accompany with rice.

Korean adults like to pair these sausages with beer. I concur !

Korean Stir-fried Sausage – Recipe

Ingredients – Advice & key points

• Sausages:
  • I recommend using mini Vienna sausages for this dish, which you might find at a Korean store ; but you can really go for any kind of mini sausages you can find in your country, so long as they’re quite soft and bouncy instead of hard and crumbly ! Yes, we want overprocessed meat for this one. This is not a healthy meal, I must comfess !
  • The small size and the three cuts on your sausages are not just for cuteness purposes ; this will get you easy-to-grab, saucy sausages that will be pleasant and handy to eat !

• This dish is spicy, but not crazy spicy. If you want to lower the heat, reduce or remove the Gochujang amount, and replace it with the same amount of ketchup !

How to eat Korean Stir-fried Sausage

• You can eat it over a bowl of rice, or with rice on the side.
• Feel free to serve this dish as an appetizer -or a banchan within a true Korean meal, of course !
• You can definitely eat it cold, but I like it better quite warm.

Let’s dig into it !

Print Recipe

Korean Stir-fried Sausage

Author: Multicarbs Cooking Method: Pan-frying Cuisine: Asian cuisines, Korean cuisine Courses: Main dish, Pork, Rice Recipe Keys: Sans maïs Sans œufs

Difficulty: Beginner Prep Time 12 min Cook Time 18 min Total Time 30 mins

Servings: 6

Best Season: Suitable throughout the year

Description

Cute sweet-and-sour sausages in a beautiful red sauce. A delicious, regressive meal ready within 30 minutes ; what's not to love ? 

Ingredients

Servings

• 400 grams mini sausages (Vienna sausage, Frankfurt sausage, any soft sausage !)
• ¹⁄₂ green bell pepper (sliced into bite-sized pieces)
• ¹⁄₂ red bell pepper (sliced into bite-sized pieces)
• ¹⁄₂ yellow bell pepper (sliced into bite-sized pieces)
• 1 onion
• 6 garlic cloves (minced)
• 1 tablespoon neutral oil

For the Marinade

• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons honey (or sugar)
• 1,5 tablespoon Gochujang (hot pepper paste)
• 6 teaspoons ketchup
• 2 tablespoons water

Instructions

1. Prep your ingredients & your sauce !

   Make a small slit on each sausage back and forth, 3 times each, careful not to fully slice your sausage. 

   Cut the bell peppers and onions into bite-sized pieces. 

   Mince your garlic cloves.

   To a large mixing bowl, add your marinade ingredients. Mix. 

2. Cooking time !

   Heat up a large pan to medium heat, with your neutral oil.

   Add your onions and bell peppers, and a pinch of salt. Cook around 10 minutes. 

   When they start to soften, add your sausages. Cook 2-3 minutes, then add garlic. 

   Turn the heat up on high and add the sauce. Do not reduce the heat ; it will help getting a shiny sauce. Let it reduce around 3 minutes.   

   Turn off the heat and sprinkle some sesame seeds. 

   Serve with some hot short-grain rice. 

   Et voilà !! You're done !

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