Korean

Beef Bibimbap

Beef Bibimbap is Korean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

50 min Involved Dairy free

Ingredients

  • 2 cups short-grain rice
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 4 large eggs
  • 4 cups spinach
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 cups bean sprouts
  • 1 zucchini
  • 8 oz mushrooms
  • 3 tbsp gochujang
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 2 tbsp neutral oil
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar

How to cook it

  1. Cook the rice and keep it warm.
  2. Marinate the beef in 2 tbsp soy sauce, half the garlic, and the brown sugar, then brown it in a skillet, about 6 minutes.
  3. Separately saute the spinach, carrots, bean sprouts, zucchini, and mushrooms, seasoning each with a little sesame oil, garlic, and salt.
  4. Fry the eggs sunny-side up.
  5. Divide the rice among four bowls and arrange the beef and vegetables in sections on top.
  6. Add a fried egg and a spoonful of gochujang to each, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and mix before eating.

Serve it with

A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Beef Bibimbap, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Beef Bibimbap carries gluten, eggs, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Beef Bibimbap
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Japchae Glass Noodle Stir-Fry
Shellfish No
Eggs Yes Beef Bulgogi
Soy Yes Nothing comparable without it yet
Fish No
Sesame Yes Nothing comparable without it yet
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Hearty
Protein
High
Protein quality
Complete
Food groups it covers
Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Egg
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Beef Bibimbap takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

More to cook

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