Thursday, May 28, 2009

Kimchi Bokumbop ( Kimchi Fried Rice )

Here is another variation of dish which made from the original kimchi. Kimchi Bokumbop is a popular home prepared dish that is very simple but delicious in taste. It can consist of various choices of meat and chopped kimchi, which is then sauteed together along with other vegetables such as onions, garlic and green onions. A dash or more of soy sauce as well as sesame oil are added for seasoning, in addition to kimchi "juice” leftover in the jar. Lastly, an egg is cooked sunny side up to be placed on top of the final dish for taste and decoration.

Commonly at home, it's a way to use up kimchi before it gets too ripe to eat, in which case, it can also be used to prepare kimchi chigae. In Korean, bokum = sauteed or fried and bop= steamed rice. So basically, kimchi bokumbop is fried rice with kimchi, and all those stories about Asian restaurants - today's leftover rice is tomorrow's fried rice - is true and totally applies here. There can be countless variations of this bokumbop dish where beef can be replaced with little bits of galbi, spam, or even tofu.


Ingredients :


2 cup of cooked rice

1/2 cup of kimchi with liquid (pickled fermented vegetable)

50g of minced pork or ground beef

2 roots of green onion

1 tbsp soy sauce

1/4 onion

1 clove of garlic

1 egg

1 Vegetable or olive oil

Salt & pepper, to taste



Method :


Cook rice as directed in a rice cooker or in a pot

Chop kimchi into small pieces. Save kimchi liquid to add to rice, if desired

Cube and soften green onions, onions, and garlic

Season the minced beef with soy sauce, minced garlic and powdered pepper

Saute the beef (or other substitutes) with vegetable / olive oil in a frying pan

When the beef is cooked, add chopped onions, kimchi and cook for about 5 minutes

Add minced garlic and green onion. Cook a bit longer and turn off the heat

Add cooked rice and mix all ingredients well

Add 1-2 tablespoonful of sesame oil and re-heat again

Add salt and pepper to taste

Cook an egg sunny side up (or scrambled)

Place the rice on a dish and put a fried egg sunny side up on top.


Enjoy this delicious Korean Recipe with your family


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