Korean recipes. My favorite this week.

     My name is Eliskar and this is my blog dedicated to Korean food. Someday i'll visit Korea and the many beautiful places with that exotic food. 


   I'm going to explain step by step my favorite recipe from this week.
         

   Ready to start? Go.

 Bibimbap ( 비빔밥 )

                                                                 

  

      This dish has an English name: rice mixed with vegetables, meat, egg and chili pepper paste. It is also necessary to know that Bibim ( 비빔 ) translates as "mixed" and bap ( 밥 ) "cooked rice", so bibimbap means literally "mixed rice". Before you eat it you need to mixed all together. 

Bibimbap is a well-known korean dish, made up by ingredients such as: rice, seasoned vegetables, carrot, spinach, zucchini. You also need, garlic, eggs, fernbrake, beef, red pepper paste, sesame oil, sesame seeds, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts and vegetable oil.

   

Now we have step by step the preparation:

1. Prepare dried fernbrake: 

In a large saucepan add 1/2 ounce of dried gosari or fernbrake to 7 cups of water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and boil fot 30 minutes. Cover and let stand until cool, about 2 to 3 hours. 

Rinse the fernbrake a couple of times, drain and put in a bowl. Cover with fresh cold water and let soak for at least 8 hours or overnight in a cool place, changing the water 2 or 3 times during the soaking.  

Taste the gosari: It should be soft. If it's tough, boil it again in a fresh pot of water for about 20 minutes and then let it sit, covered, until soft. 

Drain. It should make 4 ounces.

    2. Make rice.

    3. Prepare and cook the vegetables: 

• Cook the soy bean sprouts for 20min in a pot with 4 cups of water and 2 or 3 teaspoons salt. The cooking water will be used as soup then. 
• Cut up the blanched spinach and put it in a bowl. Mix by hand with 1 teaspoon of garlic, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds. Also, it is necessary mix carrot with salt. 
• Cut the zucchini into matchsticks and mix with 1/2 teaspoon of salt. 
• Cut the cucumber into halves lengthwise and slice thinly crosswise. Mix with 1/4 teaspoon salt.

     4. Beef: 

• Cult the beef into matchsticks and put them in a bowl. 
• Mix with 1 tablespoon minced garlic, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of honey, 2 teaspoons sesame oil, and 1 teaspoon sesame seeds with a spoon.

       Fine, let's cook!!!!!

     In a pan over medium high heat, add vegetable oil and cook the carrot for 1min.  Then, add the cucumber with garlic and sesame oil. Clean the pan and put red hot pepper paste. Clean the pan again and cook the zucchini with garlic, green onion and sesame oil for 1 min. Lastly, add bellflower roots, stir dried fernbrake for 2 minutes until a little softened, mix that with garlic, soy sauce, sugar and put it on the plate. Serve with soup.

This is not bibimbap if you do not mix everything together and ......... Tada!!!!!!! Enjoy.

Here is a video to learn how to make Bibimbap in the easiest way.