🍲 Bibimbap

Name: Bibimbap
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: South Korea · Jeonju
Ingredients: 300 g short-grain rice; 250 g beef, cut into thin strips; 4 eggs; 200 g spinach; 2 carrots, cut into matchsticks; 1 zucchini, cut into matchsticks; 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, 2 garlic cloves, minced; 4 tbsp gochujang; 3 tbsp vegetable oil, salt

Origin: South Korea · Jeonju

900kcal

per serving · 450 g

200kcal

per 100 g

40 gProtein9 g / 100 g

32 gFat7 g / 100 g

117 gCarbs26 g / 100 g

Bibimbap is a Korean rice bowl in which warm rice is topped with separate piles of seasoned vegetables — spinach, carrot and zucchini — stir-fried beef and a fried egg with a runny yolk. A spoonful of spicy gochujang goes in the middle, and everything is mixed together just before eating. Served in a sizzling stone bowl (dolsot), the rice at the bottom turns crisp and golden.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Not vegetarianbecause of: beef

Not veganbecause of: beef, egg

Contains glutenbecause of: gochujang

Not keto26 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Soy ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

ricebeefeggspinachcarrotzucchinigochujang

Recipe

4 servings50 min

Ingredients

300 g short-grain rice
250 g beef, cut into thin strips
4 eggs
200 g spinach
2 carrots, cut into matchsticks
1 zucchini, cut into matchsticks
2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, 2 garlic cloves, minced
4 tbsp gochujang
3 tbsp vegetable oil, salt

Method

Cook the rice. Marinate the beef with the soy sauce, sugar and half the garlic for 15 minutes.
Blanch the spinach for 30 seconds, squeeze out the water and season with a pinch of salt and the remaining garlic.
Stir-fry the carrot and then the zucchini separately in a little oil with a pinch of salt for 1–2 minutes each.
Stir-fry the beef over high heat for 2–3 minutes until cooked.
Fry the eggs sunny side up, keeping the yolks runny.
Divide the rice into bowls, arrange the vegetables and beef on top in separate sections, put an egg in the centre with 1 tbsp gochujang and mix well at the table.

How to make it lighter

Rice is the biggest calorie source: use a smaller scoop and double the vegetables, adding bean sprouts or mushrooms if you like.
Stir-fry the vegetables with very little oil or simply blanch them — 1 tbsp oil ≈ 120 kcal.
Choose lean beef or use less of it, and poach the egg instead of frying it.

History

The name means "mixed rice". Bibimbap has been eaten in Korea for centuries, and one popular story links it to the custom of mixing leftover dishes with rice on the eve of the lunar new year. The city of Jeonju is especially famous for its version, and today bibimbap is one of the best-known Korean dishes worldwide.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →