This is the bibinba after mixing, to see the full recipe please visit the recipe Korean Bibinba, I hope you try this recipe as its one of my favourites, and so easy to make!

Bibinba is a very spicy rice dish, which could make a nice change from the commonly eaten fried rice. Its one of my husbands favourite dishes, and has strong individual tastes and textures.

Ingredients

• Half a packet of bean sprout
• Half a carrot
• 2 dried shiitake
• pork mince 50g
• 2 eggs
• boiled rice for two
• 2 tbs of Hot pepper paste
• 1 piece of garlic
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 tbs of sesame
• 1 tbs of sesame oil
• 2 tbs of soy sauce
• 2 tsp of sugar

Method

1. Pre cook the rice, leaving to cool.
2. Shred the carrot into very small pieces.
3. Put the carrot in the microwave for 3 minutes at a medium temperature repeat this for the bean sprout.
4. marinade both the carrot and beansprouts with half tsp of salt, half pureed garlic,sesame and half tbs of sesame oil.
5. Place the dried shiitake in hot water for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes cut them into very small pieces.
6. Put the shiitake into a small pan and add the 1tbs of soy sauce and 1tsp of sugar boil untill sauce has gone.
7. Heat a frying pan at a Medium temperature, fry the pork mince for 5 minutes, and add 1tbs of soy sauce and 1tsp of sugar, fry until all the sauce gone.
8. Pouch an egg, and place on top of the rice along with and the vegetables, meat and hot pepper chili sauce.
9. Enjoy!

If you have a cast iron frying pan, why not fry the rice, leaving some of the rice to become crispy, this gives even greater texture to the dish!

This Sauce is good for any kind of salad, particularly, Thai rice noodle salad

Ingredients

• 4tbs of lemon
• 4tbs of fish sauce
• 2tbs of sugar
• 1 chopped clove of garlic
• A few stems of coriander
• Half a chopped red chili

Method

1. mix all ingredients well using a pestal and mortar.

Okonomiyaki is a popular street food in Japan. Some people say its like a Japanese pancake. But could also be said to be like a thick omelette or even a pizza.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of plain flour
• Half a cup of water
• 1 Egg
• 2 cabbage leaves
• Belly pork 50g
• 3tbs of cheese
• Half cup of Tenkasu
• Half a cup of dried shrimps
• 1tsp of dashi
• 1tbs of oil
• Okonomiyaki Sauce
• Mayonaise

Method

1. Cut the cabbage into very small pieces.
2. Cut the belly pork into slices.
3. Mix the flower, water, egg, dashi, cabbage, cheese, tenkasu and dry shrimps very well.
4. Heart the pan at a medium tempurature and add the mixture to the pan, making a flat round shape, put the pork on top.
5. Heat the okonomiyaki on both sides until cooked evenly.
6. put the okonomiyaki sauce and mayonaise on top (aswell as katsuobushi and aonori if you have it) If you don’t have okonomiyaki sauce, you could use bull dog tonkatsu sauce.

Tenkasu is the scraps left over from fried tempura. Tenkasu is commonly supplied in packs and can probably be bought at your local asian supermarket… I ate takeaway fish and chips the previous day so asked the man in the shop for some scraps.

Ingredients

• 2 Sardines
• Half an Onion
• Half a Carrot
• Half a Green pepper
• 2 tbs of Corn flour
• 4tbs of vinegar
• 4tbs of soy sauce
• 3tbs of sugar
• 1tsp of dashi

Method

1. Cut the vegetables into long very thin slices.
2. Take off the sardine heads, tail and fin. wash the inside stomach using salt water.
3. Put the vegetables, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and dashi in to the pan and boil for 2 minutes.
4. Coat the sardine’s with corn flour and deep fry at 170c for about 7minutes.
5. Mix the vegetables and sardines and leave to stand for about 10minutes. Alternatively you could keep them in the fridge overnight and eat as a cold dish.