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 !
Korean Stir-fried Sausage
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
For the Marinade
Instructions
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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.
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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 !