Side Dishes

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu)

Name: Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu)
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 120 g Mini mushrooms; 0.3 g Salt; 50 g Starch; 30 g Egg white; 300 g Frying oil; 30 g Low-sodium soy sauce; 20 g Red vinegar (hongcho); 20 g Sugar; 20 g Broccoli; 20 g Cucumber; 20 g Carrot; 20 g Red bell pepper; 20 g Yellow bell pepper; 20 g Starch slurry (10 g starch + 10 g water)

미니버섯탕수

A meat-free take on tangsuyuk: mini mushrooms coated in a starch-and-egg-white batter, fried until crisp and topped with a glossy sweet-and-sour sauce full of vegetables. It's easy to digest and less salty than the pork version.

📝 Step-by-Step Instructions

Wash the mushrooms and sprinkle lightly with salt.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 1

Mix the starch with about half its volume of water and let it settle. Pour off the water on top to leave a thick, firm starch paste.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 2

Blanch the broccoli and cut it small, cut the cucumber into half-moons and the carrot into ginkgo-leaf shapes, and seed the bell peppers and cut into triangles.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 3

Mix the soy sauce, red vinegar and sugar to make the sweet-and-sour sauce.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 4

Coat the salted mushrooms evenly with the starch paste and egg white.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 5

Heat the oil to 170–180°C and fry the mushrooms until crisp. Bring the sauce to a bubble in a pan, add the vegetables and cook briefly, thicken with a spoonful of starch slurry and pour over the fried mushrooms.

Sweet & Sour Crispy Mushrooms (Beoseot Tangsu) — step 6

📊 Nutrition Facts (per serving)

269Calories (kcal)

32.6 gCarbs

6.9 gProtein

15.3 gFat

242.7 mgSodium

Nutrition values are taken from the original recipe data and are approximate.

Source: adapted from the recipe database of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (Food Safety Korea), used under the Korea Open Government License (KOGL) Type 1. English translation and editing by coo K food.