Bi Bim Bap

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 2 cups uncooked sticky rice (japanese or korean short grain rice)
• 1 lb lean ground beef or 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
• 2 cups carrots, shredded
• 1 (15 1/4 ounce) can corn kernels, drained
• 16 ounces frozen spinach, defrosted (1 package)
• 2 zucchini, sliced into strips
• 5 eggs
• 1/2 cup light soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/8 cup garlic, chopped
• sesame oil, for frying
• salt and pepper
• 4 tablespoons hot pepper paste (gochujang)
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar (for gochujang)
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds (for gochujang) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cook the rice as directed on package. (usually about 1.25-1.5 cups of water per cup of rice, bring to a boil, then simmer covered for 25 minutes).
• 2 combine granulated sugar and brown sugar. add soy sauce and half of the garlic, stir with a spoon. add ground beef, mix well, and set aside. (or chop chicken into bite size pieces, add to marinade, mix well).
• 3 quickly stirfry the corn kernels dry or in vegetable oil with a pinch of salt, set aside.
• 4 stirfry carrots with a teaspoon of sugar until soft. set aside.
• 5 stirfry zucchini in sesame oil, add salt and pepper to taste. set aside.
• 6 stirfry spinach in sesame oil with the remaining garlic, add salt and pepper to taste. set aside.
• 7 cook the eggs over easy or sunnyside up, but leave the yolk a little runny.
• 8 stirfry ground beef until cooked through. remove from pan and set aside. (for chicken, stirfry chicken, remove from pan, then thicken marinade in the pan).
• 9 mix the gochujang, sugar, and sesame seeds.
• 10 divide and arrange the vegetables neatly over the 5 bowls of rice, add ground beef, and place the egg on top.
• 11 mix together and enjoy!