Potato and Dried Anchovy BokkEum

This is a korean side-dish recipe for stir-fried potato and dried anchovy (GamJa MyeolChi BokkEum, 멸치 감자 볶음).

Yield: 2 Servings

Short Korean Lesson

CheonCheonHi (천천히) = Slowly
BbalLI (빨리) = Fast

Video Instructions

The recipe starts at 4:20

Main Ingredients:

2 Cups Potatoes
½ Generous Cup Carrot
¼ Generous Cup Green Hot Pepper
1 Tbsp Cooking Oil
½ tsp Sesame Seeds

Original Sauce Ingredients:

20 Medium-sized Dried Anchovies
2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
3 Tbsp Water
1 Tbsp Sugar
2 Tbsp Cloves Garlic

Vegetarian Sauce Ingredients:

2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
3 Tbsp Water
1 Tbsp Sugar
2 Tbsp Cloves Garlic
¼ Cup Onion
4 Pieces Dried Kelp

Directions

We will need 2 cups potato, ½ generous cup carrot, and ¼ generous cup hot pepper for the vegetable ingredients.

Chop the potato in about a ¼ inch thickness and 2 inch length. Cut the carrot and hot pepper into a similar size as the potato pieces. Slice 4 cloves of garlic thinly like this.

We also need 20 medium-sized dried anchovies.

Remove the head of the dried anchovies and then divide the body in half. You will see the black guts. Remove them, and if you want, you can also remove some of the bones.

In a heated nonstick pan with 1 Tbsp of cooking oil, add the potato and the carrot.

Fry for about 7 minutes on medium. Occasionally stir it.

While frying the potato and carrot, let’s make a savory broth for the dish. Add 2 Tbsp of soy sauce, 3 Tbsp of water, 1 Tbsp of sugar, the garlic, and the dried anchovies into a small saucepan. Stir it until the sugar dissolves.

Here, I made a separate recipe for my vegetarian subscribers. For the sauce, you basically add the same amount of soy sauce, water, sugar, and the garlic into the pan. But instead of adding the dried anchovies, you can add 1⁄4 cup of thinly sliced onion and 4 pieces of dried kelp. This sauce tastes as good as the other one.

Whatever sauce you make, once the sauce starts to boil, cook it for about 2 minutes on high. After 7 minutes, the potato will be half cooked. Pour the sauce with the anchovies into the pan.