Even though creating recipes is a massive part of my job, I’ll admit that sometimes I do fall into a bit of a rut. I’m a creature of habit and potentially always will be. One of the reasons why I stopped posting my weekly What I Ate Wednesday posts is because I thought they were getting repetitive and it was time to switch things up. One of my intentions this year is to push my culinary boundaries and make new things at home and this Korean Beef Bibimbab is the first one of those new experimental dishes.
Cooking something new doesn’t have to mean creating your own dish from scratch. It could be a recipe that you’ve been meaning to make from that cookbook that you bought years ago or trying to recreate a recipe that you tried in your favourite restaurant. I’ve eaten a bibimbap before, but never dreamed to cook it in my kitchen. Of course, now I’m a complete convert!
- 200 g /7oz flat-iron or rump steak thinly sliced
- 400 g /14oz short grain or sushi rice rinsed
- 15 ml /1tbsp sesame oil
- 1 carrot peeled and cut into julienne strips
- 1 courgette cut into julienne strips
- 2 garlic cloves peeled and finely chopped or crushed
- Salt and freshly milled black pepper
- 30 ml /2tbsp soy sauce
- 1 x 100g pack baby spinach leaves
- 100 g /4oz beansprouts rinsed
- 4 eggs
- Thinly sliced spring onions
- Sesame seeds
- Korean chilli paste or chilli paste of your choice Gochujang
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Bring 1L/1½pints water to boil in a large saucepan, reduce the heat and add the rice, cover and cook over a low heat for 15 minutes until cooked.
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Meanwhile, heat 5ml/1tsp of the oil in a large non-stick pan or wok. Add the carrot, half the garlic and stir fry for 1 minute. Season, set side and keep warm.
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Heat 5ml/1tsp of the oil in the same pan, add the courgettes and the remaining garlic. Stir-fry for a few minutes, season, set side and keep warm.
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Heat the remaining oil in the same pan and stir-fry the beef for a few minutes.Remove from the heat and add the soy sauce.
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Wilt the spinach in the same pan, remove from the heat and drizzle with a little sesame oil.
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Divide the rice among bowls and arrange carrots, courgettes, beef, spinach and beansprouts. Top with a fried egg.
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Garnish with spring onions and sesame seeds. Serve with the chilli paste.
Stir through 10ml/2tsp of the Korean paste at the end of cooking the beef.
At the supermarket look for pudding rice – that’s also short grain rice.
Korean cooking is becoming a very popular trend and Simply Beef and Lamb’s Korean recipes are a great way to get experimenting with this trend. Delicious, good quality meat is essential to many Korean dishes. Do remember to look out for the Red Tractor logo on packs of meat to show you the meat you’re buying is farm assured quality meat and responsibly produced by people dedicated to providing great food. The variety of Simply Beef and Lamb recipes highlights the versatility of flavours when cooking with beef and lamb and their Korean recipes are delicious and simple to make, which you can find here.
To be honest, I struggle to follow recipes, even my own. So even though this recipe calls for bean sprouts I’ve actually used chestnut mushrooms instead. Cooking is one of those things where there are no rules, it’s totally up to you where you take a dish and I love that.
We love chilli and spice, so we loaded up on the chilli oil when we ate this, however you can leave if out if that’s not your bag. My favourite part about this dish is when the egg yolk begins to ooze over the rest of the ingredients. I’m mad about runny yolks!
Have you tried Korean food before? How do you get yourself out of a food rut?
*Recipe commissioned by Simply Beef & Lamb, but all opinions are my own.
It is far too long since I made Bibimbap, you’ve inspired me and ,no, there is nothing better than a good oozy egg!
This looks and sounds absolutely incredible, i love your blog for giving me inspiration and making me think outside the box. I often just cook the same things over and over but im trying hard to experiment more x
What a delicious looking meal. Never heard of this before. I definitely look forward to you pushing your culinary boundaries and I think it’s with anything in life we can get in a rut and comfortable and need to push ourselves out of our box
oh wow! i need that beef, the sauce looks yummy, and those carrots look amazing. i lvoe korean beef dishes. thanks for sharing
Hi Jemma. I want to say thank you for this lovely written recipe. Korean Beef Bibimbap looks really lovely.
Yum. This looks so good! I’m looking for some healthy dinner time inspiration so will definitly be bookmarking this!
wow this looks like a super healthy and creative dish idea. I think i’ll get my boyfriend to make this as I’m a terrible cook!
This looks so good – I love Korean food! I definitely end up in food ruts sometimes, so try to look at different spices or flavours I can add to the usual faves!
This looks and sunds amazing, I really do need to try this x
I haven’t eaten much Korean food, but this looks so delicious! We make Japanese food quite often so it shouldn’t be so hard to give this a go. Great recipe!
I do tend to get into a rut when it comes to cooking and food. I’ve never tried Korean food, but this dish looks quite delicious and would be a something different from the usual fare.
i have to admit I’ve not tried much Korean food but this looks delicious! x
That looks absolutely amazing – I love fresh stir fried style foods!
Oh wow, that looks so tasty. I must try this
I am in a little bit of a food rut as I find I tend to go for the same things all the time, but I am trying to experiment a bit more x
This looks amazing, I really like the addition of the egg on top x
This sounds delicious. I rarely (if ever?) eat Korean food so this sounds like a lovely change. And yes to runny yolks!
This sounds gorgeous!!! I haven’t had many foods that incorporate an egg on top although I do find them interesting!! I love a runny yolk too!
This sounds absolutely gorgeous and like something I would absolutely love. I actually don’t think I’ve ever had Korean food before x
I like the name of this meal and it looks very nourishing – high in protein and enough carbs to fuel you well 🙂
We like that it gives you a protein boost, especially needed at this time of year! Congrats on trying something new – it looks delicious x
This does look super tasty and I’m always looking for new beef meals as I get low in iron so it’s a good meal for me.
This looks and sounds so lovely! The meat looks so delicious!
Great recipe and the chilli must have given it a bit of a kick.