Easy One Pot Bibimbap

For our easy one pot bibimbap, we will add all our ingredients such as mushrooms, carrots, and bulgogi in the rice cooker. At the end, we will add bean sprouts and spinach. To serve, add a sunny side egg and mix in gochujang paste.

Ingredients

beef marinade

▢½ pound sliced beef

▢2 garlic cloves minced

▢4 teaspoon soy sauce

▢1 teaspoon honey

▢1 teaspoon oyster sauce

one pot rice

▢1 cup short grain white rice soaked in water

▢¾ cup water

▢3 shiitake mushrooms sliced

▢½ carrot (50 grams) julienne cut

▢¼ teaspoon black pepper

add in hot cooked rice

▢handful bean sprouts

▢handful spinach

garnish

▢1-2 tablespoon sesame oil

▢1 tablespoon gochujang paste

▢1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

▢1 teaspoon soybean paste optional

▢1 tablespoon water (optional) to make the gochujang sauce thinner

▢1 fried egg

Instructions

soak shiitake mushrooms if using dry (optional)

If using dried shiitake mushrooms, soak them in water an hour prior to cooking and then gently squeeze out the water when slicing.

soak rice

Soak short grain rice in water. Soak as long as it takes for you to prepare the beef and chop the vegetables (roughly 15 minutes).

Mince garlic cloves. Add them in a bowl along with soy sauce, honey, and oyster sauce. Mix sauce well and add the thinly sliced beef. Marinate the beef as long as it takes for you to prepare the other ingredients (roughly 10 minutes)

Peel and slice carrots. Slice in julienne cut (thin & long slices). Slice mushrooms.

Wash the soaked rice in a strainer (or in the same bowl you used before) until water runs clear. Make sure your strain all the water to ensure that you add the right amount of water in the next step. 

In the pot with rice, add ¾ cup water, sliced carrots and mushrooms. Mix together and add your marinated beef and black pepper on top. Place pot in rice cooker and press the cook button. If you don’t have a rice cooker, use the alternative cooking instructions below.

(Optional) To make the bibimbap sauce, you can use gochujang paste only. However, I like to add some water to make the sauce thinner and add soybean paste for some depth of flavor. Set sauce aside.

When the rice is done cooking, open the lid quickly and be careful of the steam. Add the spinach and bean sprouts quickly and close. Steam for 2 minutes and open the lid. Mix everything together.

This is optional, fry sunny side eggs on a pan and place on top of the rice. Garnish with a teaspoon of sesame oil, bibimbap sauce, and sesame seeds. Mix your sauce with your rice and hope you enjoy!