Part 4 with Chef Jaume Biarnes: Bulgogi & Miyeok-guk

Korean Cultural Center New York is excited to present an Online Korean cuisine cooking video series as part of our Korean food culture education programming! Cooking demonstration videos will be launched each month for 6 total episodes that feature easy-to-follow recipes at home using Korean ingredients, sharing cooking techniques step-by-step for specially created recipes.

Chef Jaume Biarnes is from Spain and Chef Jae Jung is from Korea. The two chefs will demonstrate how to cook simply at home using Korean seasonal ingredients with techniques that everyone can try! You’ll be amazed at how we can all make dishes that can be enjoyed at Michelin-starred restaurants with ingredients that you can find from local markets.

For Part 4, Chef Jaume cooks two of his favorite Korean dishes using techniques that he has honed with over 20 years of experience at the highest level of the food business. He uses Korean condiments such as doenjang, gochujang and other jangs in his dishes to develop new menus, and teaches them widely. Through our special cooking series, we hope you will learn how to make easy, delicious Korean dishes from Chef Jaume, who will teach you how to cook with ingredients that you can easily find!

Tonight’s Menu!

Bulgogi
Marinated thinly sliced beef

Recipe (2 Servings)

Ingredients:

½ pound beef rib-eye steak, cut very thin
1 Tbsp vegetable oil

For the marinade:

2 Tbsp soy sauce (Korean Ganjang)
2 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp sesame oil
¼ Korean pear, grated
1 Tbsp brown sugar
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 scallions, chopped
1 Tbsp fresh ginger, minced or grated
1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds, slightly crushed between your fingers

To serve in a lettuce wrap:

8 leaves of lettuce, thoroughly washed and drained
1 cup cooked white rice
1 Tbsp Ssamjang sauce

Cooking method:

1. Cut the meat into strips about 1 inch wide.
2. In a big bowl, combine all the ingredients for the marinade and stir well.
3. Add sliced meat to the marinade, gently mixing to evenly coat each piece. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4. In a pan over medium-high heat, add vegetable oil and marinated meat in an even layer. The meat will release liquid as it cooks. Stir occasionally, until most of the liquid has evaporated and the meat is completely cooked.
5. To serve, place a leaf of lettuce on your hand, add a spoon of rice, some bulgogi, and finally a bit of Ssamjang on top. Wrap it up and enjoy!

Tips: You can also serve bulgogi over fried rice, combined with pasta or even create a delicious Korean style Philly cheese steak!

Miyeok-guk
Seaweed Soup

Recipe (2 Servings)

Ingredients:

½ cup Korean dry seaweed (Mareun-miyeok)
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 tsp toasted sesame oil
3 cups water
2 Tbsp Yondu
Toasted sesame seeds (Optional)

Cooking method:

1. In a bowl, cover the dry seaweed with water and hydrate for 20 minutes until the seaweed is completely bloomed.
2. Drain the seaweed and chop into big pieces.
3. In a pot over medium heat, combine garlic and sesame oil and stir fry for one minute until fragrant. Add seaweed and gently stir-fry for 2 minutes.
4. Add water and Yondu and simmer for 3 minutes. Let rest for 3 minutes before serving.

Tips: You can crush some toasted sesame seeds on top when serving.

BIOS

Chef Jaume Biarnes

Jaume is a chef with 20 + years of experience at the highest level of food business. His work experience covers a wide range of companies from small casual restaurants to large catering and high end fine dining.

After studying at the Culinary School, he started working in a very traditional fish restaurant in Barcelona. During his early years, Chef Jaume gained his cooking skills moving around different restaurants and food service companies. From cooking humble seafood dishes in the Mediterranean coast, to ancient countryside meals up in the Pyrenees mountains. After Some time learning from great masters he decided to switch to the sweet art and took over the bread and bakery station at Escriba. One of the best classical pastry shops in Barcelona. There,he worked day and night for two years until the owner, the master pastry Chef Christian Escriba, wanted to reward him for his efforts and performance by recommending Jaume to the world acclaimed Chef FerranAdria, that accepted to give him an opportunity at his 3 Michelin restaurant, El Bulli.

At El Bulli restaurant, Jaume started his specialization in culinary R&D while learning the finest high end cooking techniques. He became a part of the very core team of chefs working at the creative department. Some of the dishes that Chef Jaume worked on, granted the record of 5 times “Best restaurant of the world” that El Bulli still holds. After 5 years, Chef Jaume felt like moving forward and Mr. FerranAdria offered a new challenge to him: Becoming the Culinary Director of the Alicia Foundation, the first cooking research center in the world.

Jaume designed the new kitchen and built a team of chefs and scientists that worked together in a pioneering experience. There he developed some of the working methods and techniques that chefs are using nowadays all over the world. He worked for over 12 years with the best chefs and scientists internationally and became an R&D and marketing consultant for some of the largest food companies of Europe. Always alternating he’s work with social non-profit projects dedicated to improve life quality of people through food. During his years at Alicia is when Chef Jaume discovered and fell in love with Yondu, and this romance has brought him to this new challenge. To make Yondu, the new global seasoning.

Recently, Chef Jaume has published a book about food and music -his other great passion- called “What is the relation between mac’n’cheese and Beethoven”. In this book Jaume explores the history of food and classical music from the roman age to our times through 30 recipes.

Chef Jae Jung

Chef Jae was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She left her family in 2009 to attend the Culinary Institute of America in New York. As a part of her culinary training, she completed her externship at Restaurant August in New Orleans, where she fell in love with southern hospitality, food, and culture. After graduating, she moved to New Orleans, where she gained experience in the kitchens of the city’s most decorated restaurants including Restaurant August, Dominica, HerbSaint, and Dooky Chase for the following 4 years. During her time at Dooky Chase, Jae met Chef Leah Chase who was known as the Queen of Creole cooking. Jae credits Chef Leah Chase with teaching her the spirit and true form of Southern cuisine and hospitality which continues to serve as the foundation of her cooking philosophy and personal life.

From 2012 to 2015, Jae traveled across America while hosting 20 culinary pop-up events with Dinner lab that showcased Korean cuisine with a New Orleans flare. The events were hosted in Chicago, Miami, Austin, Boston, Birmingham, New Orleans, Nashville, and New York. The pop-up event in New Orleans was featured in the New York Times in August of 2014.

Jae relocated to New York City in 2014 and continued to work in some of the city’s most prestigious Michelin starred restaurants including Oceana, Le Bernardin, the NoMad Restaurant, and she most recently served as the sous chef of Café Boulud. Internationally acclaimed Chef, Eric Ripert became her mentor during her time at Le Bernardin and continues to inspire and influence her passion in the culinary arts.

In the fall of 2020, Chef Jae worked as the visiting executive chef at The Point Resort in Saranac Lake NY creating a different wine pairing course menu every day.

In 2018, Jae hosted a wine pairing dinner theater series entitled, “How Do You Hug a Tiger?” The events were designed to be an interactive storytelling dinner experience which highlighted her personal journey from her childhood in South Korea to finding culinary success in New York City. The series found success and was featured on CBS News, Food & Wine magazine, Bon Appetit magazine, and Eater.

In the fall of 2019, Jae authored a chapter in the cookbook, A Place at the Table. This book was published by the Vilcek foundation, which is an organization that honors and raises awareness of foreign-born artists that contribute to the arts, science, and society of the United States. Jae was selected as one of the nation’s top 40 influential foreign-born chefs. In November of 2019, she appeared as a featured speaker at the 92Y Food summit along with other top chefs of New York City. Moderated by Julia Moskin from the New York Times, the 92Y Food summit was a symposium about immigrant chefs that have transformed American cuisine and featured their stories, challenges and personal journeys.

In December of 2019, Jae created a dinner course that was titled “Harmony of the Eight Provinces (Paldo)”, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The seven-course dinner aimed to highlight the distinct ingredients and dishes of eight historical provinces across North and South Korea to celebrate the diverse regional culinary arts within the country.

Chef Jae continues to be passionate about achieving uncompromising culinary excellence while maintaining the spirit of Southern hospitality and generosity in her personal life. She has a passion for showcasing and incorporating her South Korean heritage into her food and believes that this can contribute to the rich diversity in the culinary arts in the United States.

Special support by Yondu Culinary Studio. Sempio