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HAPCHE (Mixed Food of Meat and Vegetables), Korean

Ingredients

• ½ lb. vermicelli
• ¾ lb. bean sprouts
• 2 onions
• 1 bunch green onions
• ¾ lb. carrots
• 1 bunch parsley or celery
• 1 lb. Meat (beef)
• 1 small abalone (optional)
• ¼ lb. pork
• 7 to 10 pieces dried mushrooms
• 2 eggs, separated
• 4 tbsp. soy sauce
• ½ tsp. pepper
• 1 tbsp sugar
• cooking oil
• 1 small green pepper

Preparation Instructions

Every cooked vegetable should be kept separate until all of them are ready to mix.

Boil vermicelli, until it is soft, then rinse in cold water. Boil bean sprouts about 3 minutes. Chip carrots and boil for few minutes. Cut green onion into 1-inch-lengths and cut fine again. Cook in pan with one tbsp. of oil. Onion is to be cut and cooked in pan. Cut the meat fine and add spices (1 tbsp. chopped green onion, ½ top. of pepper, 4 tbsp, soy sauce).

Soften the dried mushrooms by adding water, chop, mix with meat and cook in pan for few minutes, Fry egg whites and yolks separately in a thin layer. Roll up layers and chop fine. Mix all ingredients except eggs. Add soy sauce, sugar (1 tbsp,) and some chopped green onion. Decorate with the finely chopped eggs.

Contributed by Mrs. Snai Kim, 1950

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