Making Korean Style Fried Rice with Leftover Ingredients
In Korea, it’s common to make Korean style fried rice(bokkeumbap) as a final dish after enjoying grilled, stir-fried, or soup dishes.
It’s not essential, but often, seeing the leftover broth or sauce makes you crave that.
Fried rice can be made with almost any ingredients by simply stir-frying them with rice.
And of course, it doesn’t have to be a finishing dish—any leftover ingredients at home can be turned into fried rice.
This time, I made fried rice with ground beef, cabbage, onion, carrot, and mushrooms that I had at home.
Ingredients:
Ground beef, cabbage, onion, carrot, mushrooms, cooking oil, korean large green onions, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil.
Fried Rice Cooking Process
1.First, finely chop all the ingredients.
Cut them to about 0.5-1 cm; if too large, it’s hard to eat in one bite, and if too small, it loses texture.
2. Green Onions with Oil
Add cooking oil to the wok and start by adding the korean large green onions to create a korean large green onions-infused oil.
If you don’t have korean large green onions, you can skip this step, but making the korean large green onions oil adds a lot of flavor.
3. Add the ground beef first and sauté it.
4. Stir fry all the veggies
Once the beef is somewhat cooked, add the remaining cabbage, onion, carrot, and mushrooms, and continue to stir-fry. (Since the vegetables may release water, sauté them over high heat.)
5. Add Sauce
At this point, add a little soy sauce while stir-frying to enhance the flavor and add a bit of a charred taste.
6. Add the rice
and one or two tablespoons of oyster sauce, and stir-fry.
(Typically, oyster sauce is used to season the rice. If you have other sauces, you can use those instead. For example, if you’re making kimchi fried rice, you would use the kimchi and its juice to season the rice, so there’s no need to add oyster sauce.)
7. Final Saute
Once the rice is fried and has a chewy texture, turn off the heat and transfer it to a plate. (The key to Korean style fried rice is that it should be dry and chewy. If it’s too moist, it will resemble risotto or porridge.)
8. Seasoning
After transferring to a plate, sprinkle a little pepper and drizzle some sesame oil over it. Done!
The key to fried rice is to add cooking oil, then stir-fry the ingredients and rice until they are dry.
You can add any ingredients you like. Give it a try!
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