30 mins
Korean Bibimbap
Never heard of Bibimbap? It's a popular Korean dish of rice, mixed vegetables, savory meat, and a soft fried egg. Our version uses ground pork with spinach and carrots. You could also use ground chicken or turkey and your choice of veggies, which makes this dish a great opportunity to use what you have on hand. What makes the dish, in my opinion, is the fresh ginger and the soft fried egg!
Korean Bibimbap
SERVINGS :
4
PEOPLE
COOK TIME :
MINUTES
PREP TIME :
MINUTES
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups basmati rice
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1 tablespoon ginger, minced
- 1 green onion, green and white parts minced
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 1 cup matchstick carrots
- 4 large egg
- kosher salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 cucumber, sliced into thin rounds
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- Sriracha, optional
Servings:
Directions
- Place rice and water in a lidded pot. Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer, cover and let cook 20 minutes.
- Place pork, ginger, green onion, rice vinegar, soy sauce, and sesame oil in a bowl. Stir to combine.
- Heat olive oil over medium high heat in a skillet.
- When it begins to shimmer, add pork mixture. Cook, breaking the pork into pieces, until nicely browned and cooked through.
- Transfer to a plate and tent to keep warm.
- Add spinach and carrots to skillet. Cook until spinach is just wilted. Transfer to the plate with the pork.
- Add a bit more oil to the skillet if necessary.
- Cook eggs to desired doneness. Season with salt and pepper.
- Plate the rice. Top with pork, spinach and carrots, eggs, and cucumber.
- Garnish with sesame and Sriracha if desired.
Nutrition per serving
Per Serving: Calories 494 Fat 12 Sat Fat 3 Sodium 307 Carbs 64 Sugars 3 Fiber 3 Protein 28
NOTES
KID NOTE: Deconstruct create individual servings of rice, meat, spinach, uncooked carrots, and cucumbers.
VEGETARIAN TIP: Use tofu instead of pork.
GLUTEN MODIFICATIONS: Use tamari instead of soy sauce.
Amazing and easy. We needed way more pork than listed, though.
I made 1/3 of the amount of rice, and the 1/2 pound of pork was just enough for that amount of rice. My husband and I both loved this meal.
I did double the pork mixture based on the reviews. Although it isn’t really like a “proper” bibimbap, the flavor was just outstanding and the entire family, even the 3-year-old, ate it up. They kids weren’t huge fans of the spinach being wilted into the rice, but we were able to pick a lot of it out for them. I gave it 4 stars and “favorited” it.