A pretty simple dish to prepare! White rice is the perfect accompaniment to the spicy sauce simmering with chicken drumettes, potato, carrots, and onion. In a Korean or Asian market, you can find Korean hot pepper paste. I haven’t attempted a grocery shop search. ‘Gochujang’ is its name in Korean. Serve alongside warm cooked rice.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ pounds chicken drumettes
- 2 large potatoes, cut into large chunks
- 2 carrots, cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 large onion, cut into 8 pieces
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- ¼ cup water
- ½ cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 3 tablespoons gochujang (Korean hot pepper paste)
Instructions
- In a large pot over medium heat, mix the chicken, potatoes, carrots, onion, sugar, and garlic. Pour in water and soy sauce, and stir in sugar and hot pepper paste.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 45 minutes, until chicken juices run clear, vegetables are tender, and liquid has thickened.
- You can find gochujang, Korean hot pepper paste, in Korean/Asian markets or online.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 447 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 55 g |
| Cholesterol | 59 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 26 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 1994 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My Mom is Korean and she loved it, so this recipe gets our endorsement! So easy and delicious. As suggested, I just dumped frozen drumsticks and all the seasonings in a pot. I used less soy sauce and 1/2 c water because we like more sauce. I also cooked for 1.5 hours for a richer taste. Due to diabetes risk, I cut out the sugar, and it was still sweet from the carrots and onions. Delicious!
Everyone loved this, made it as the recipe said. Will definitely be making again
I cut the sugar to 1 tbsp, I also added pepper flakes, it was delicious! and so quick and easy! I didn’t have any bone in chicken so just cut up boneless chicken thighs, worked great, I will try bone in next time
Very good, and adjusted for 6. Made a few tweaks. First used chicken breast and Sriracha, because that’s what I had. I used 2 TBSP is Sriracha, and was plenty of heat. I also added a TBSP of Oyster sauce, just for a little depth. Turned out great over rice, with a side of steamed broccoli.
Very flavorful. I added enoki mushrooms, Chinese turnip, and green bell pepper. Also decreased soy sauce to 1/3 cup per recommendations.
This dish is so tasty!! It’s my new favorite chicken dish of all time. The flavor combinations pleases all the picky eaters in my house. Instead of using drumettes, I used boneless chicken thighs and cut them into bite size pieces.
Delicious as it is!
This recipe is absolutely delicious! my mother is Korean and I grew up eating authentic Korean food every day. Finding this recipe gives me a little taste of home. I followed a couple of recommendations: 1. Reduce soy sauce to 1/3 cup 2. Reduced sugar by a half tbsp Otherwise, perfect!
Very tasty and very easy! One pot dish!
a little spicy buy delicious
Excellent comfort dish. I do not know what is traditional Korean food is, but this dish was outstanding. The only thing I will change when I make it again is to put the potatoes in half way through the cooking time. Simmered covered, and I feel the potatoes were a little soft. Outstanding dish. Thank you so much.
simply followed the recipe, and it tasted fantastic. I used whole drumsticks and when cooking again, i’d use smaller pieces of chicken and cook for slightly less time as potato and carrots were starting to get a little mushy . Loved it
It’s the easiest recipe to make a delicious dish! I substituted chicken with pork belly, this dish goes perfectly with steamed rice. It is rather spicy though!
Very simple, tasty alternative to plain chicken and vegetables. I used bone-in chicken quarters (legs and thighs, separated). Added a red bell pepper in with the other veggies; in the future I’ll add this later in the cooking process as it was somewhat overcooked. Added 1 T chopped ginger. Reduced soy to 1/4 cup. Reduced gochujang paste to 2 rounded T (hubby is not a big spicy fan, I am). He thought it was on the edge of too spicy, I thought was very tolerable in terms of spiciness. Really loved this recipe. Next time will probably add an extra carrot and potato, could have used a few more vegetables for my taste. Served over steamed rice. Will make again.
Super flavorful and spicy, this is a quick and easy way to wow someone ((or several someone’s). Rice on the side helps temper the burn.
This recipe was absolutely delicious!!!! I have never tasted Korean food before, but I absolutely loved it. I followed the suggestion about using 1/3 cup soy sauce instead of 1/2. I half all the meat and veggie ingredients (because I was the only one that was going to eat it), but made 100% of the sauce. Will absolutely be making this again!
I need to use boneless drumlettes next time- but with pandemic I got what they had- it was delicious
Not as spicy as I expected, which my wife appreciated. I sautéd the chicken wings first; not sure I would do that again because by the time the dish has simmered for 45 minutes everything in the pan is the same color. (My wife looked at the pan and said, “I thought you put carrots in it.” Eventually she was able to tell carrot pieces from the potatoes.) Reasonably tasty – we ended up keeping the wings for later and discarding the remaining vegetables.
Liked the flavors, but way over the top in heat.. had to eat yogurt along side to help survive. I will make it again, but cut the sauce to 1 tbl. My sister in law is Korean and could stand it, but I must be a sissy.
Very good! We didn’t have the special Korean sauce and with the pandemic, weren’t about to go specialty sauce shopping, so we used sriracha instead. We really liked this! Kids didn’t quite go for it as much, but it was a really nice switch from “the usual” dinner rotation. Saucy chicken and rice with veggies is always welcome on our table!
Delicious!!! Thank you Sara!! Added 2 spoons of leftover white wine and grated ginger. Tastes like food from childhood.