Bokkeumbap Food

KOREAN STYLE CURRY FRIED RICE WITH CHICKEN (KARE-BOKKEUMBAP: 카레볶음밥)

Steps:

• Combine the chicken, garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a bowl and mix it well with a wooden spoon.
• Heat up a large frying pan over medium hight heat. Add the vegetable oil and onion and stir for about 1 to 2 minutes until the onion turns light brown.
• Stir in the chicken and cook for about 3 minutes, until the chicken is no longer pink.
• Add kimchi, carrot, and green bell pepper. Stir for 2 to 3 minutes until the chicken is fully cooked.
• Add 2 bowls of rice (3 cups' worth), stir it in and mix all together with the wooden spoon. Stir in the curry powder until everything is a well mixed, even yellow color with no rice lumps.
• Remove from the heat. Transfer to 2 plates and top with an over-easy eggs on each (if you use). Or pack it in a lunchbox. It will still be delicious even hours later.

KIMCHI FRIED RICE (KIMCHI-BOKKEUMBAP)

Steps:

• Heat up a pan. Add the vegetable oil.
• Add the kimchi and stir fry for 1 minute.
• Add rice, kimchi juice, water, and gochujang.
• Stir all the ingredients together for about 7 minutes with a wooden spoon.
• Add sesame oil and remove from the heat.
• Sprinkle with chopped green onion, roasted gim, and sesame seeds. Serve right away.

KIMCHI FRIED RICE (KIMCHI BOKKEUMBAP)

Steps:

• Heat canola oil in large skillet over high heat. Stir ground beef and white parts of green onion into skillet and reduce heat to medium. Cook and stir beef and green onion until meat is browned and onion is fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Stir kimchi and gochujang into meat mixture and cook until warmed through and fragrant, 2 to 4 minutes. Add rice; cook and stir until rice is heated through and coated with gochujang, 3 to 5 minutes more.
• Drizzle sesame oil over rice mixture and stir to coat. Garnish with green parts of green onion.
• Melt 1 teaspoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Crack egg into the pan and cook until white is completely set and yolk is thick, 3 to 4 minutes. Place egg over fried rice.

BOKKEUMBAP

Steps:

• Cook white rice for 8-10 mins until it's almost done, then drain it and set aside.
• Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a frying pan over high heat. Add the cabbage, garlic and broccoli and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes. Spoon the lot into a bowl, cover and keep warm.
• Add a tbsp of oil to the same pan and fry the cooked rice over medium heat for 5 mins, stirring occasionally. The rice should start to crackle and brown a bit.
• Stir the gochujang and doenjang pastes and the spring onion into the rice. Then return the cabbage to the pan and mix well to combine. Keep on low heat whilst you fry the eggs.
• Fry 2 eggs in a separate pan for a few minutes, keeping the yolks soft.
• Divide the rice mixture between bowl, top with the fried egg and dig in!