In Korean culture, food is everything. We say โDid you eat?โ instead of โHello.โ My mom was the same โ she cooked the most amazing meals for our family, three times a day, every single day. And one of her very best recipes was Galbi (๊ฐ๋น, Korean short ribs).
Now here I am, living in Seattle with my own family, slowly becoming a true K-mom like her. For me and Leoโs birthday dinner, I decided to bring back that tradition and cook Galbi at home. It turned out so delicious, and my whole family loved it. ๐
ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์์ ๋ฐฅ๊ณผ ์์์ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ ์กด์ฌ์์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ โ์๋ ?โ ๋์ โ๋ฐฅ ๋จน์์ด?โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฌป๊ณค ํ์์์. ์ ํฌ ์๋ง๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์์ด์. ๋งค์ผ ์์นจ๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ ๊น์ง, ์จ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ ์ํด ์ ๋ง ๋ง์๋ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํด์ฃผ์ จ์ฃ . ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค ๋ฐฅ ๋จน์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์๋ง์ ์ฌ๋ช ์ด์๋ ๋ฏํด์. ๊ทธ ์ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ์์ ์๋ ๋ ์ํผ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋น์์ด์.
์ด์ ๋๋ ์์ ํ์์ ๋ด ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ด๋ค๋ณด๋ ์ ์ ๋ ์๋ง์ฒ๋ผ K-์๋ง๊ฐ ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด์. ์ด๋ฒ์ Leo ์์ผ ๊ฒธ ์ ์์ผ ์ ๋ ์ผ๋ก, ์ง์์ ๊ฐ๋น๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋โฆ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์์๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค๋ ๐


๐ฅข What you need
- Beef short ribs โ I used American Wagyu Short Ribs from Costco (so good for special dinners!) but any short rib works since the marinade does the magic.
- 1 onion
- 1 apple or Asian pear
- 15 garlic cloves
- 1 cup Mirin (or leftover Sprite/Pear juice)
- 1 cup soy sauce
- ยฝ cup sugar
- 3 tbsp plum concentrate
- 2 tbsp sesame oil
- Pepper to taste
(๐ Hereโs a good Asian pear option online, and my favorite Mirin brand if you canโt find it locally.)
๐ฅข ์ค๋น ์ฌ๋ฃ
- ์๊ฐ๋น โ ์ ๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ์ด๋ผ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฐ ์๊ท ๊ฐ๋น ์ฌ์ฉํ์ด์. (์๊ท ์๋์ด๋ ์๋ ๋๋ถ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋ง์์ด์!)
- ์ํ 1๊ฐ
- ์ฌ๊ณผ ๋๋ ์์์ ๋ฐฐ 1๊ฐ
- ๋ง๋ 15์ชฝ
- ๋ฏธ๋ฆผ 1์ปต (๋๋ ๋จ์ ์คํ๋ผ์ดํธ/๋ฐฐ์ฆ ์ฌ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅ)
- ๊ฐ์ฅ 1์ปต
- ์คํ ยฝ์ปต
- ๋งค์ค ๋์ถ์ก 3ํฐ์
- ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ 2ํฐ์
- ํ์ถ ์ฝ๊ฐ
*(๐ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๊ตฌํ ์ ์๋ ์์์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ถ์ฒํ๋ ๋ฏธ๋ฆผ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋งํฌ ์ฐธ๊ณ !) *





๐ฅข Steps to make Galbi
- Soak the ribs in Sprite (or Coke) for 2 hours to tenderize the meat and draw out impurities.
- Rinse under running water.
- Blend onion, apple/pear, garlic, and Mirin until smooth.
- Add soy sauce, sugar, plum concentrate, sesame oil, and pepper.
- Marinate ribs in this mixture for at least 2 days in the fridge. (If you want to save some, freeze after marinating โ itโs a lifesaver for busy moms!)
- Cook on skillet, stove, or grill โ whatever you have.


The result? Juicy, tender, flavorful Galbi that tastes just like home. We literally finished everything in one sitting.
Cooking this recipe made me feel closer to my mom โ and I canโt wait to pass this tradition on to Leo too. ๐ Would you like me to share more of my K-mom recipes here on the blog? Let me know in the comments, Iโd love to hear your thoughts!
์ด ๋ ์ํผ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด์, ์๋ง๊ฐ ํด์ฃผ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง๊ณผ ์ ์ฑ์ ๋ค์ ๋๋ ์ ์์์ด์. Leo์ ํจ๊ป ์ด ์ ํต์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค์ ๐ ํน์ ์ K-๋ง ๋ ์ํผ ๋ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ผ์ธ์? ๋๊ธ๋ก ์๋ ค์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋ ๋ง์ด ๊ณต์ ํ ๊ฒ์! ์ค๋๋ ์ฝ์ด์ค์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.

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