Easy bulgogi (Mak-bulgogi: 막불고기)

• servings: 4 servings
• total time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

1 pound beef tenderloin, top sirloin, or skirt steak), slice into ⅛-inch-thick slices

4 garlic cloves, minced

2 green onion, chopped

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil

1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds, coarsely ground

½ teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions

Make marinade by combining the garlic, green onion, soy sauce, sugar, water, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and ground black pepper in a large bowl. Mix it well with a spoon until the sugar is well dissolved.

Add the sliced beef and mix everything by hand until the beef is covered in the marinade. Keep in the fridge at least 30 minutes.

Cook on a pan or a grill, and transfer to a plate or a cast iron plate to serve with rice, lettuce, ssamjang, and more side dishes.If you’re using a Korean handheld grill over a flame like I do in the video, use a medium flame and keep moving the grill around so that it gets evenly cooked, before flipping it over.

To eat, wrap a spoonful of rice, a piece of bulgogi, and a little bit of ssamjang in a lettuce leaf. Fold it over and eat. Repeat!