Pork Bulgogi With Spring Vegetables
Updated May 27, 2025

- Total Time
- 1 hour
- Prep Time
- 10 minutes
- Cook Time
- 50 minutes
- Rating
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Ingredients
- ½cup soy sauce
- ¼cup gochujang
- ¼cup light brown sugar
- 1tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon white sesame seeds, plus more for serving
- 2tablespoons neutral oil, such as grapeseed, avocado or sunflower
- 1teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 2cloves garlic, finely grated or minced
- 1(2-inch) piece ginger, finely grated or minced
- 2scallions, thinly sliced
- 1pound boneless pork chops, tenderloin or loin, thinly sliced
- 1tablespoon neutral oil, such as grapeseed, avocado or sunflower
- 4ounces shiitake mushrooms, sliced (about 1½ cups)
- ½cup thinly sliced radishes (about 5)
- 8ounces snow peas, strings removed and halved crosswise (about 2½ cups)
- 6scallions, white and green parts thinly sliced
- Cooked rice or lettuce leaves, for serving
For the Marinade and Sauce
For the Pork and Vegetables
Preparation
- Step 1
Make the marinade: Add marinade ingredients to a medium bowl and whisk until combined. In a small bowl, reserve half the marinade at room temperature for serving.
- Step 2
Add pork to the marinade in the medium bowl and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to 2 hours.
- Step 3
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add neutral oil. Once the oil is hot, add mushrooms. Let sear, stirring once or twice, until just tender and caramelized, 4 to 7 minutes.
- Step 4
Raise heat to high. Add pork along with its marinade, radishes, snow peas and all but 2 tablespoons of the scallions (reserve for garnish) to pan. Let cook, stirring often, until the pork is just cooked through, about 3 to 5 minutes. (Take care not to overcook it; it won’t brown, and it may still look slightly pink inside).
- Step 5
Garnish with reserved scallions and sesame seeds, and serve hot over rice with reserved marinade for drizzling.
Private Notes
Comments
I think cutting back on the sugar (while praiseworthy and well-intentioned) makes it taste more salty.
This was great, but a bit intense on the saltiness/sodium. Next time I'll use low sodium soy sauce. I also used shaved beef in place of the pork, about half the brown sugar and traded out sugar snap peas for the snow pea pods. Will definitely make this again.
be careful to purchase gochujang paste and not sauce. Paste is used for cooking; sauce is used as an add-on at the table.
Delicious! Don’t mess with the sauce—it’s marvelous! I did sub in asparagus for the snow peas, because I had beautiful asparagus from my farmers market. I also nearly doubled the radishes. I cut the non-garnish scallions into 1” pieces. I like japchae with my bulgogi, so while the pork was marinating, I cooked 3.5 oz. glass noodles (which turns into 12 oz. cooked), and then threw them into the pan when there was a about 2 minutes to go with about half the reserved sauce. So good! My only druther is there needs to be more shiitake mushrooms—next time!
Loved it. Substituted zucchini for the snow peas, but otherwise followed the recipe. It was wonderful and will make again. Thank you, chef!
It is VERY frustrating that the marinating time is not factored into the Prep time at the top of the recipe.
