Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
3 lbs Flanken-style short ribs (about 12 pieces)
Water
1 Asian pear
1/2 a white or yellow onion
1 cup soy sauce (I use Aloha shoyu)
1 cup citrus soda (like Sierra Mist)
1 TBS freshly grated ginger
1/4 cup sesame oil
3 cloves garlic minced or pressed
2 TBS sesame seeds
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 cup minced green onion
Method:
Place ribs in a large casserole dish and fill it with water until the ribs are covered. Let sit in the fridge at least 30 minutes, then pour off water and rinse the ribs and dish.
Return ribs to the casserole dish. Grate the flesh of an Asian pear and half of an onion over the ribs. Add all remaining ingredients to the ribs and use tongs stir marinade and make sure ribs are all soaking. Cover the dish and refrigerate at least 30 minutes (overnight is better).
Heat a grill to medium high heat. Use tongs to place ribs on the grill and cook for 3-4 minutes each side. Garnish with additional green onion and sesame seeds if desired. Serve with kimchee and rice.
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Yum, sounds delicious!
Made the marinade tonight, and will be testing it on the grill tomorrow night! From what I’ve seen and smell so far, it seems delicious. Mmmmmm…
These look really good. I love ribs. They are so tender and juicy. I also like eating with my hands.
Thanks for sharing who doesn’t like Galbi,i could eat pounds of this!
Woooow,,,looks delicious n perfect dear,,,yummy recipe thanks for sharing ,,take care n keep smiling,,
Wow….Korean Kalbi…..looks finger-licking good! Anything Korean is my favourite. Korean food is one of the best….beautiful in flavour and taste. This dish brings back lots of sweet memories of my 1+ year there. I remember my Korean friends used coke to marinade the meat. Love the kimchi a lot. I make that all the time at home.
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A classic and one of my favorites. Delicious!
Just when I thought I had run out of great short rib recipes, this comes along! Much appreciated.
Oh my, YUM! I love kalbi. My mouth is watering.
Kalbi is a fav dish for Japanese too :) Juicy meat marinated with the spicy sauce is irresistible, wow!
Interesting, we use 7-up in a lot of our meat marinades too. I’m drooling into my keyboard here, those kalbi ribs are perfection!
Thanks for this. I love Kalbi and make it every month or so. During the summer I like to do the marinade with steak tips and make steak tip subs out of them!
Yummy Kalbi. It’s great to use 2 types of meat tenderizer. Guaranteed tender beef.
Thanks for this recipe. My Malaysian wife loves Kalbi and now I can make them for her. I just need to find out how to slice them as thin as the restaurants do. There are 2 Korean restaurants where we live in Cape Town and my wife orders these ribs everytime we go.
Greetings from Bangladesh, You have a great site and some extraordinary recipes. all your recipes & instructions produce perfect results. so i always attempt your entries with great confidence. is it alright to use Kikkoman Soy Sauce. Can I substitute any other pear as we dont get Asian pear in Dhaka?
Wish you continued success with your blog.
I can just imagine the spiciness of the beef :D Just the way I want my Korean dishes :D
This is some tempting. I would love to try out this recipe. All the times I have used grated ginger as tenderizer, I wonder how it would taste with citrus soda. Great idea! :)
I love kalbi! Never done it with the Asian pear before.
We eat this with Korean green hot peppers and Korean red chilli paste.
Also we wrap the Kalbi in lettuce with rice and some of the chilli paste. (without the bones of course)
Good eats for sure.
So 7-Up instead of sugar or honey? I think I prefer that latter, although the beef looks soooo good.
look delicious;) Brings back memories from dining with a little family from seoul in Sydney’s china town. Korean bbq, yummie. Must visit Seoul, cant resist asia.
Hooray! Just saw thos Korean style cut of short ribs in the grocery and was wishing I had a good recipe for them…now I do! Thanks for sharing! :)
Sounds delicious and have hooked it up tonight, for grilling tomorrow (my grating arm will never be the same, but I suspect it). Thanks for the recipe!!!!!!
I tried these the other night for my sis-in-law who’s from Gunsan. She said they were great but they usually got Kalbi made from pork as beef was so much more expensive. I bought some pork button bones and am going to try this marinade with them :o) Thanks for the great recipe!
We must thank you for this recipe- my Malaysian wife made the Kalbi,using Lamb both with bones and without, and it was absolutely delicious. She served it to wrap in lettuce leaves with raw garlic as they do in the Korean restaurants. Now please give us the recipe for the yellow bean sambal to accompany it?
Hello! I love the sound of your recipe! I grew up eating kalbi that my best friend’s grandmother always made for me :) I always wanted to try to recreate hers but I have never seen a recipe that looked similar. From what I remember hers seemed to be much larger pieces of meat that easily shredded apart…almost as if she used a chuck roast as you would for pot roast….does that sound like it might work for this recipe? She was very old and didnt speak english so I never attempted to ask how she made it. The only way I can think of possibly getting the same result as hers is to maybe use a marinade like yours…a chuck roast and maybe cooked in a crockpot or dutch oven. I would love and appretiate your thoughts on this! Oh and to add I know that Kalbi is usually with the short ribs and bulgogi uses just the sliced meat…for some reason this family called theirs Kalbi as well….? Oh well it was delicious!!
Take care and love your blog!
Deanna
hey! im a fan of your website, i’ve been making lots of chinese and malaysian foods lately, thanks to you. By the way, living in Malaysia, it’s pretty hard to get beef/lamb.. Only supermarkets sell them but still very limited. May i know where i can get “galbi” in Malaysia???
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