Monday, December 20, 2010

Bibimbap: Korean mixed rice with vegetables dish





Ingredients: 

Cooked rice 
a package of bean sprouts 
a bunch of spinach (1 bag)
2  zucchinis
5-7 fresh mushrooms (i use baby portobello, you can use shiitake or your preference)
200 grams of ground beef (about half a pound)
carrots
eggs 
green onions
soy sauce, hot pepper paste or anything to make it spicy
garlic, sesame seeds, sesame oil (dark for more flavor) 
vegetable oil for cooking

Instructions:
  1. Cook rice (white rice). You can use a rice cooker or a stainless pot.(1 cup rice:2 cups water; 2 cups rice:3cups water...)
  2. Put your spinach in a pot of boiling water and stir it for a minute. Then rinse it in cold water a few times and squeeze it lightly. Mix it with a pinch of salt, 1 ts of soy sauce, 1 clove of minced garlic and sesame oil. Put it on the platter 
  3. Saute the bean sprouts in a pan, add soy sauce and pepper depending on taste. Cover the pan, cook for a few minutes till tender. 
  4. Cut the zucchinis into thin strips, add salt depending on taste, and then mix them together. A few minutes later, sauté them in a pan over high heat. When it’s cooked, it will look a little translucent. Put it on the platter. 
  5. Slice the mushrooms thinly and sauté with 1 ts of vegetable oil. Add 2 ts of soy sauce and 1 or 2 ts of sugar and stir it for 2 minutes. Add some sesame oil, and put it on the platter.
  6. On a heated pan, put some oil and 200 grams of ground beef and stir it. Add 4 cloves of minced garlic, 1 tbs of soy sauce, 1/2  tbs of sugar, ground black pepper, and sesame oil. Put it on the platter. (Sometimes instead of using ground beef, I use ground chicken, or steak: I marinate it first with the ingredients listed above and cook it).
  7. Cut a carrot into strips, sauté it for 30 seconds and put it on the platter.
  8. Prepare eggs with sunny side up.
  9. Put your rice in a big bowl, with the all your vegetables and meat . Place the sunny side up egg on the center.
  10. Serve it with sesame oil and hot pepper paste.
  11. Lastly, mix it up and eat!
* Not spicy sauce: Chop 4 green onions and put them in a small bowl. Pour half cup of soy sauce, and add 1 tbs of sesame seeds, 2 ts of sugar, 1 tbs of sesame oil. 

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