Easy Korean Fishcake Side Dish

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Popular Korean Banchan Eomuk Bokkeum Stir Fry Fishcake

Enter any Korean home or restaurant, you will find stir fried fishcake in the rotation of side dishes. Often times it is at Korean BBQ where you’ll have this as a side dish, but my kids will eat it as a main dish with just rice. It is already rich in umami flavor but when stir fried with sweet, savory and spicy ingredients, it is easy to see why it is a popular side dish, even for the most unadventurous eater. This banchan is super easy to make with some ingredients you may already have on hand. The main ingredients you need are fishcake, soy sauce, garlic, sugar, sesame oil, and gochugaru. Feel free to add whatever type of onions and peppers to your liking.

Easy Korean Fishcake Recipe

This recipe is the easiest version without missing all the umami, sweet and savory flavors. In other words, maximum flavors with minimal ingredients. And you can make it as spicy as you want just by adding more gochugaru and/or substituting with a spicier pepper.

Ingredients

Fishcake, cooking oil, gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, sesame oil, onions, green onions, Korean peppers, toasted sesame seeds.

Instructions

Prep

Slice onions, chop peppers, chop green onions, mince garlic.

In a separate bowl add sauce ingredients and mix: gochugaru, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar and set aside.

Blanch fishcake in boiling water for about 30 seconds. This will soften the fishcake and remove oils.

Drain well and slice

Cook

Add cooking oil to pan on medium/high heat.

Add fishcake, sliced onions, chopped peppers, chopped green onions, and minced garlic. Stir until fishcake is slightly browned.

Add sauce mix to the stir fry, mix well and cook.

Add toasted sesame seeds and enjoy!

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Easy Korean Fishcake Stir Fry Side Dish

Eomuk Bokkeum. Easy Korean Stir Fry Fishcake, a popular versatile side dish, slightly sweet and savory bursting with umami. This recipe is mild but with a couple of changes can be made spicy. Perfect side dish to a fancy Korean BBQ dinner or have with just rice.

Course Banchan, Side Dish

Cuisine Korean

Keyword asian recipes, banchan, banchon, easy fishcake, Easy Korean Recipe, eomuk bokkeum, Fish cake, fish sauce, fishcake, korean peppers, mild, Purple sweet potato noodles, side dish, Soy sauce, Sweet and Savory, umami

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

• 8 sheets Fishcake
• 2 Tbsp Cooking Oil as needed
• 2 tsp Garlic minced
• 1/4 Onion sliced
• 2 Korean Peppers chopped
• 1 Green Onion chopped
• 2 tsp Toasted sesame seeds

Sauce

• 1/2 tsp Gochugaru
• 4 Tbsp Soy Sauce
• 8 tsp Sugar
• 4 tsp Sesame oil

Instructions

• In a bowl add sauce ingredients: gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil and mix. Set aside.
• Boil water in a deep pan, blanch fishcake for 30 seconds to soften and remove oils.
• Drain fishcake well and slice.
• Add cooking oil to pan on medium high heat.
• Add fishcake, garlic, onions, peppers, and green onions to the hot oil and stir fry until fishcake are slightly browned.
• Add sauce to the stir fried fish cake and cook until sauce is well mixed.
• Remove from heat and add toasted sesame seeds and enjoy!

Notes

To make the recipe more spicy you can add more gochugaru and/or substitute jalapeno peppers or a spicier pepper of your choice.