Beef Rib Bo Ssam

Beef Rib Bo Ssam

Jason Barratt, Head Chef

Supernormal Brisbane

Serves 4 | Preparation time: 30 minutes | Cooking time: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Beef Ribs
4 litres water
1 tbs salt
400g boneless beef ribs - approximately 8–10 pieces
100g smoked green chilli sauce – Supernormal own, see below or store bought Tuck Shop Sauce Co hot sauce is an excellent substitute
2 litres vegetable oil, for shallow-frying
100g gluten-free flour
6 leaves green oak lettuce
6 leaves cos lettuce
12 rounds sliced Korean pickled radish or daikon
8 shiso leaves
12 pickled Turkish snake chillies or Guindilla chillies

Spice salt
3 tbs Korean chilli flakes
1 tbs red Sichuan pepper powder
½ tbs onion powder
½ tbs sugar
1 tbs salt flakes
1 tbs smoked paprika
1 tbs paprika

Smoked green chilli sauce
40g smoked and
fermented green chilli paste
30g pickled ginger, finely diced
30ml pickled-ginger syrup
50ml rice-wine vinegar
30ml vegetable oil

Beef Ribs
Bring the salted water to the boil in a large saucepan over high heat. 
Add the ribs, reduce to a simmer and cook with the lid on for 2 hours, or until the meat is tender and breaks apart easily with a fork. 
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the meat to a bowl to cool, reserve, and discard the cooking liquid. 
Combine the spice salt ingredients. Reserve. For the green chilli sauce, mix the ingredients together and taste, adding more chilli if required. Reserve.
When the ribs have cooled, heat the 2 litres of oil in a medium saucepan - the oil should be about 5cm deep - over medium heat. 
Toss the ribs in the gluten-free flour then shallow-fry for 3 minutes.
Place the spice mix in a bowl.  Remove the beef from the oil with a slotted spoon and coat in the spice mix.

To serve
Place the ribs on a flat serving plate.  Arrange the lettuce leaves, radish or daikon, shiso and chillies on another plate. Serve the green chilli sauce in a bowl on the side.