Kimchi Fried Rice

If you happen to’re no longer but fine about kimchi (Korean challenging fermented cabbage), this dish would be appropriate the elegant gateway drug for you. Once sautéed, kimchi loses about a of its pungent harshness, but answers benefit with an addictive, tangy-challenging warmth that deepens with a itsy-bitsy time spent sizzling.

Kimchi is so flavorful, it makes the most effective fried rice atrocious. No need to mix in egg or smother it with soy sauce. It’s likely you’ll perhaps well perhaps doubtlessly dispense with every other ingredient; all you actually desire is kimchi, rice, and heat. It could well most likely perhaps well possibly aloof model so real.

This recipe has a itsy-bitsy bigger than that going for it, even though. I essentially essentially based it off a recipe I picture in a good deal Jap cookbook, of all areas (from a series that a friend and I like dubbed “bookazines”), and modified it to be extra fancy dishes I’ve loved in ingesting areas in Korea. I added gochujang (Korean chili paste), sesame oil, and a fried egg on high (because few dishes are no longer improved by a fried egg!).

For the fried rice in the photograph, I opted for shrimp, but I’ve additionally made it with chicken forward of (and pork would work, too). Or disappear away the protein out completely. Fancy I said, all you actually desire is kimchi, rice, and heat to construct this challenging, tangy comfort meals.

Adapted from a recipe by Kumi Imaizumi in the Jap cookbook called “One Dish Cooking.” —Allison (Spontaneous Tomato)

Instructions

1. Heat canola or vegetable oil in a tidy, deep frying pan over high heat. Then add chicken, pork, or raw shrimp (if the utilization of) and cook dinner, stirring generally, for several minutes till the meat adjustments colour and begins to sight in relation to cooked. Add extra oil if compulsory.
2. Add the scallion whites, and cook dinner whereas stirring for 1 to 2 minutes. Subsequent add kimchi and gochujang, and cook dinner whereas stirring for 3 to 5 minutes till the kimchi begins to gain gentle. (If the utilization of pre-cooked shrimp, add now, and recede to coat with kimchi flavors.)
3. Add the rice, sesame oil, and soy sauce. Then mix smartly till the rice is covered with the kimchi. (It’s likely you’ll perhaps well perhaps additionally always add a itsy-bitsy little bit of the briny liquid from the kimchi jar if it appears to be like fancy there’s no longer sufficient colour or spice to your entire rice!)
4. Proceed cooking, stirring consistently, for correct about a extra minutes till the rice is warmed via. Add the garlic chives in the last minute of cooking, and recede smartly till they launch to wilt. Season with salt, to model.
5. Serve topped with a fried egg and sprinkled with scallions or shredded seaweed.