Korean Bibimbap
Cuisine: Korean
Cooked rice is what defines Korean Bibimbap, a home staple dish.
Difficulty
3 / 5
★★★☆☆
Estimated Calories
1080 kcal
Ingredients
- Cooked rice
- Eggs
- Hot-pot beef rolls (thin-sliced beef)
- Bean sprouts
- Mushrooms
- Carrot
- Zucchini
- Gochujang (Korean chili paste)
- Sprite
- Sesame seeds
- Sesame oil
Steps
- Wash and julienne the vegetables, stir-fry them in a pan until soft, then take them out
- Boil water and, when it's boiling, blanch the beef rolls; just cook them through, about three minutes, then remove
- Fry a soft-yolk egg
- Pack the rice (made in a rice cooker) into a bowl, then turn it upside down into a large bowl
- Arrange the prepared vegetables and beef rolls in a circle on top of the rice and put the fried egg in the middle
- Prepare the sauce
- 10 ml gochujang (sweet-spicy) + 5 ml light soy sauce + two bottle caps of Sprite (use sugar-free Sprite if you're dieting) + 10 g sesame seeds + 5 ml sesame oil
- Stir the sauce above; you can add more light soy sauce and salt
- Pour the prepared sauce into the arranged bowl
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Notes
Bibimbap is a colorful Korean home-style dish full of textures: a sweet-spicy sauce coats the rice, vegetables, beef and soft-yolk egg, and once mixed every bite is satisfying. The variety of vegetables provides vitamins and fiber, while beef and egg add quality protein for a balanced meal. It's simple, though there's a bit of prep; beginners can handle it calmly, and it takes about 45 minutes from prep to table.
Estimated difficulty: ★★★
Estimated calories: 1080 kcal
Group: Korean bibimbap
Calculation:
Per serving:
- Cooked rice 1 bowl (400g)
- Egg 1
- Hot-pot beef rolls 6 rolls, 60g
- Bean sprouts 1 handful, 80g
- Mushrooms 50g
- Carrot 1/4
- Zucchini 50g
- Gochujang 25ml
- Sprite 2 bottle caps, 20ml
- Sesame seeds 10g
- Sesame oil 20ml
- Light soy sauce 15ml
- This is a very simple dish; the process is a bit tedious, but mixing the vegetables, meat, rice and sauce together and eating it is very satisfying
- If you care about presentation, you can use a clay pot instead of a regular bowl