Kimchi Fried Rice
Kimchi Fried Rice. Not the high-heat stir-fry you might expect, Grace Lee's home-style fried-rice recipe uses a simple technique — make an easy, flavorful kimchi sauce, mellowed out with butter, and sauté leftover rice in it It's perfect for a snack or a quick, simple meal The Spam, though optional, reflects many Koreans' love of foods introduced by the American military. This is a very basic kimchi fried rice, a humble dish made with leftover rice, kimchi, and usually a processed meat like Spam®. In this recipe I used cubed ham and veggies I had in the fridge.
Ingredients
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Prepare 3/4 cup of kimchi (chopped)
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It’s 1/3 of juice of kimchi
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It’s 3 cups of cooked short-grain rice
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It’s 1 tablespoon of korean gochujang sauce
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Prepare 1/2 tablespoon of soysauce
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It’s 2 teaspoons of toasted sesame oil
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It’s 1 tablespoon of olive oil
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It’s 1 of scallion (chopped)
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Prepare 2 of eggs (fried or sunnyside up)
Steps
- Drizzle the sesame oil on the rice and stir to break up any big clumps..
- Whisk the kimchi juice, gochujang and soy sauce together until the gochujang is completely dissolved..
- Put the olive oil in a frying pan and heat over medium high heat until hot. Add the chopped kimchi and stir fry until the kimchi is starting to brown and is very fragrant..
- Add the rice and and stir-fry, pressing down on any clumps until the rice is uniform in color..
- Pour the kimchi juice mixture over the rice, and turn up the heat to high. Stir-fry, tossing the rice until the rice starts to brown, and doesn't stick together quite as much..
- Taste and adjust to desired flavor, and top with the sunny-side up/fried egg and garnish with the chopped scallions, and it is ready to be served, enjoy..
The core ingredients are kimchi, steamed rice, but you can also add spam, pork belly, bacon and an egg. Add sesame oil and remove from the heat. Kimchi Fried Rice, or Kimchi Bokkeumbap (볶음밥), is a simple, delicious fried rice recipe that's made with mature kimchi, rice, and just a handful of other ingredients. The trick is in how the ingredients are combined, which can turn it into one of the most flavorful rice dishes ever. Kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap, 김치볶음밥) is a humble Korean dish made basically with kimchi and leftover rice.
