Spring Vegetable Japchae (Korean Glass Noodles)

This was really yummy and despite all the veggie chopping, quite easy to make. I would use less noodles, more spinach and definitely add some spice next time.

Go with avocado oil if you can. I added more veg of various kinds: sweet peppers, jalapeños, frozen peas, asparagus in inch long pieces, four scallions (as well as some chopped red onion to start). At the end threw in asparagus tips, a cup of baby spinach, a package of enoki mushrooms and half a bag of bean sprouts to cook only with the retained heat of the sauced noodles and hardier veg. Worked well. Should cook the noodles a minute or so less.

From reading the notes, it seems that this was originally a recipe that included beef, but was re-written to be vegan. The nutrition information is way too high for the vegan version.

Just cooked for the second time. First as a room temp pot luck dish. Second as a warm dinner at home. Very versatile dish. You can throw in any cooked veggie. Shitake mushrooms are the best. I cooked each veggie separately, then added to the bowl of cooked noodles. I felt it didn't muddle each vegetable. I added chili crisp at the table for added spice. Your favorite proteins can be added. I liked Kay Chun's meatballs and separately flaked salmon.

Super delicious! first time i cooked it as per the recipe; and didnt enjoy the raw garlic in the sauce, so second time around kept the garlic out of the sauce, and cooked it off in the oil with the veggies instead. Not sure if is traditional but much preferred it!

Don’t overlook the chicken - potentially cook chicken with onions then remove from wok and add rest of veggies then re-add at end Sweet potato noodles expand A LOT - don’t add an extra pack no matter what Tyler says

Made this last night. I would have doubled the sauce and added to taste. Maybe because I used more noodles because I didn't weigh them. Excellent.

Excellent! Agree stick with the sweet potato noodles, but I did swap out asparagus for broccoli. Such a lovely dish!

Could make this with any combo of veggies and include a protein if wanted. I couldn't find glass noodles which worked fine. I added a serrano pepper to give it a little oomph.

I couldn't find the glass noodles described but I had SOBA noodles on hand and they seemed to work very well. I also couldn't find snap peas so I left them out, but there were so many other vegetables that I didn't miss them. I can see making this for company since you can do all the vegetable cutting and sauce making in advance, then it will only take 10 minutes or so to put it together. I might try either adding either tofu or chicken next time.

Allow at least an hour including prepping many vegetables

Attention diabetics! Sweet potato noodles can spike your blood sugar levels. These did mine.

We did not like this at all. Made exactly except for the sugar snap peas. Just gross. I don’t know why exactly. Just missed the mark. The noodles were rather slimy and the rest just did not taste good. Going into our compost bucket. So there is that.

This is a delicious but for people who like a little extra kick I'd recommend adding 1-2T of grated ginger to the dressing -- and maybe another 1T of minced ginger to the vegetable stir fry and then tossing in some red chili peppers in step 5 when sautéing the asparagus and snow peas. Extra spinach tossed in can never be a bad thing ;-)

Yes, you can use chicken instead of beef. I use boneless skinless chicken thighs, sliced, very thin. This is a slightly simpler recipe than the one I usually use and I really enjoyed it. The only change was no snap peas because I didn’t have them, and I did marinate the mushrooms. I’d probably double the sauce next time but I thought the vegetable flavors came through just fine.