Rice Mixed with Vegetables and Beef
Bibimbap is a dish mixed of cooked white rice, vegetables, beef, garnishes and fried red pepper paste. It is said that this dish came from the customs of memorial services and rural villages. This dish is very easy to prepare, just mixing together cooked white rice with various vegetables, namul and red pepper paste.

Ingredients

- 450 g (2½ cups) non-glutinous rice   600 g (3 cups) water
- 300 g young pumpking   (½ tsp) salt
- 200 g skinned bellflower roots   4 g (1 tsp) salt
- 120 g beef (top round)
- seasoning sauce
     18 g (1 tbsp) soy sauce
     6 g (½ tbsp) sugar
     9 g (2 tsp) minced green onion
     5.5 g (1 tsp) minced garlic
     2 g (1 tsp) sesame salt
     0.3 g (⅛ tsp) ground black pepper
     4 g (1 tsp) sesame oil
- 200 g soaked bracken
- 2 ea (120 g) egg
- 3 g kelps
- 26 g (2 tbsp) edible oil
- fried red pepper paste
     95 g (5 tbsp) red pepper paste
     20 g minced beef
     9 g (2 tsp) minced green onion
     5.5 g (1 tsp) minced garlic
     90 g (6 tbsp) water
     18 g (1½ tbsp) sugar
     19 g (1½ tbsp) sesame oil

Preparation

1. Wash the rice, soak in water for 30 min. drain water on a strainer for 10 min. (550 g). (550g).

2. Cut the young pumpkin into 5~6 cm-long, then cut them into 0.3 cm-wide/thick round, shred into matchstick, soak with salt for 10 min. wipe water with cotton cloths. Shred bellflower roots into 5~6 cm-long and 0.3 cm-wide/thick, add salt and fumble them with hands, let it sit for 10 min. then rinse and squeeze water out. 【Photo 2】

3. Clean blood of beef with cotton cloths, shred into 6 cm-long and 0.3 cm-wide/thick. Wash the bracken, cut into 5 cm-long. Season beef and bracken with seasoning sauce respectively. 【Photo 3】

4. Panfry egg for yellow/white egg garnish, shred it into 5 cm-long and 0.3 cm-wide/thick.

Recipe

1. Put the rice and water in the pot, heat it up for 4 min. on high heat. When it boils, continue to boil it for another 4 min. then lower the heat to medium, boil it for 3 min. When the rice become sodden, lower the heat to low, steam for 10 min. to be well-done (1.03 kg).

2. Preheat the frying pan and oil, stir-fry pumpkin on high heat for 30 sec. spread out and cool down (80 g).

3. Preheat the frying pan and oil, stir-fry bellflower roots on medium heat for 5 min. (120 g). 【Photo 4】

4. Preheat the frying pan and oil, stir-fry beef and bracken respectively on medium heat for 3 min. (beef 80g, bracken 164g). 【Photo 5】

5. Pour edible oil into the pan, oil fry kelps on medium heat for 10 sec. Crush it into large size.

6. Put the minced beef, green onion, garlic and half of the sesame oil in the pot, stir-fry them on medium heat for 2 min. Add red pepper paste, sugar and sesame oil, stir-fry for 5 min. Add water into it, stir-fry for another 3 min. to make fried red pepper paste (167 g).

7. Serve steamed rice with prepared stuffs and fried red pepper paste on top.

*Tip

1.To provide good taste, rice should be cooked properly, neither too hard nor too watery.
2.When preparing fried red pepper paste with home-made red pepper paste, add sugar a little bit more.
3.Fried red pepper paste may be added more, or reduced upon taste.