Korean Fried Rice Bokeumbap Recipes

KOREAN SAEWOO BOKKEUMBAP (SHRIMP FRIED RICE)

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat and cook and stir carrot and green bell pepper until slightly softened, about 5 minutes; stir shrimp, onion, corn, and garlic into carrot mixture. Cook and stir until shrimp turn pink and are no longer translucent, 5 more minutes. Pour off any liquid. Turn heat to low and let mixture simmer.
• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a separate skillet over medium heat; pour 2 beaten eggs into hot oil and scramble the eggs until firm and no longer runny, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix scrambled eggs lightly into shrimp and vegetables.
• Stir rice, oyster sauce, soy sauce, 1 tablespoon butter, and salt into shrimp mixture, tossing until rice is thoroughly combined with shrimp and vegetables and coated with sauce.
• Heat 1 teaspoon butter in a small nonstick skillet over medium heat until butter stops foaming; break 1 of the 4 remaining eggs into the hot butter. Cover skillet and let egg cook until the bottom is slightly browned, the yolk is runny, and the top of the white is slightly firm, about 3 minutes. Set egg aside. Repeat with remaining 3 eggs.
• Serve shrimp fried rice topped with fried eggs. For a nice presentation, fill a bowl with 1/4 of the fried rice, press lightly to compact, and turn fried rice out onto a serving plate in a dome shape; top with a fried egg. Repeat with remaining rice and eggs.

KOREAN FRIED RICE (BOKEUMBAP)

Steps:

• In a frying pan, cook all of the meat (seasoning with salt and pepper) as well as the onion and set aside for later. I usually drain the sausage and pork on paper towels to get rid of some of the grease and then saute the onion and beef together separately.
• In a very large frying pan with oil, cook all of the vegetables together on Medium Low heat, stirring occasionally. Be sure the heat doesn't get too high so as to prevent the kimchee from burning.
• In a small mixing bowl, stir together all of the ingredients for the sauce.
• Once the vegetables have cooked (about 15 min), stir in the sauce and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Mix into rice to create the Bokeumbap -- or simply serve the mixture on top of the rice.
• *Gochujang and Bulgogi Sauce can be found in Asian grocery markets and I'm able to buy Samgyeopsal at my local butcher if I ask for "thinly sliced side pork".