We make this AT LEAST once a month. Jay and I could eat this everyday and not get sick of it and is one of Jay’s top 5 favorite Korean foods. It seems like I say this all the time so let me clarify his top 5 in no particular order:
1. Stone Bowl Bibimbap
2. Kalbi (Korean ribs)
3. Bulgogi (Korean beef)
4. Samgyupsal(thick sliced bacon)
5. Samgaetang(chicken soup) AND Kkorigomtang(oxtail soup).
Don’t fret, I got 3 down, I will post the other 3 soon enough. 🙂
Stone Bowl Bibimbap
1. Heat up the stone bowl on medium high heat.
(optional) Put sliced up fresh garlic in the stone bowl with 1/2 T. olive oil and cook till brown and crisp. *This is just my special ingredient I add into it, I’ve never heard of anyone else doing this, but Jay absolutely loves it. You can hardly taste the garlic, it tastes very soft and mild when it’s cooked.
2. Put some rice in the bowl and pat it down so it’s even over the surface.
3. Cook the vegetables and meat all seperately. Season them with salt, pepper, and garlic powder as you cook them. Then add the cooked vegetables and meat on top of the rice. I put zuchini, spinach, mushrooms, sprouts, carrots, and samgyupsal(not shown). Most people put bulgogi or ground beef.
4. Cook the egg so that the whites are cooked while the yolk isn’t. This makes the mixing easier and gives it texture.
5. Mix Korean red paste with corn syrup and sesame seeds according to desire. You want the paste a little sweet but not too sweet. Add the paste to the rice mixture and also sesame oil and mix it all up and bon appetite! (Jay and I put fresh sliced cucumbers and romain lettuce in the end for a more fresh, crunchy taste*The stone bowl will stay hot and cook the food as you eat.
Oh my goodness! I eat Bibimbap about once a week…Korean food is soooo good! Sometimes I can't handle the spicyness, so I ask them to put the spicy red paste on the side! Good thing about China is…food is CHEAP! I've been wanting to make this, so thanks for sharing! However, I just gotta get the stone bowl first! Also, I gotta say that it's hard to want to make it when I can walk to the next building over where there's a yummy Korean restaurant and pay less than $2 US dollars for it.
haha you do? that's awesome! and oh my, you can get it for $2bucks, are you kidding me? that's amazing!!! it'll be way more expensive to buy all the ingredients and make it, wouldn't it? and yes getting a stone bowl is worth it, you can use it for soups, stews and stuff, not just for stone bowl.