A recipe like this wouldn’t normally use oil (maybe a chili oil but not to cook it), but I included that term because I think sometimes people think whole food plant based no oil food is a pile of avocados and fancy lettuce.

Oil is empty calories. It’s extracted from its source but you don’t get any of the good stuff in the foods. I’m not a super strict noiler but I don’t keep/use cooking oils. I’ll buy potato chips on occasion tho.

I am very lazy and threw gochujang, soy sauce and corn syrup in a sauce pan and called it good enough.