Korean

Kimchi Fried Rice

Kimchi Fried Rice is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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.

20 min Easy Dairy free Pescatarian Eggetarian

Ingredients

  • 5 cups cooked day-old rice
  • 2 cups vegan kimchi
  • 2 tbsp gochujang
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 4 scallions
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 3 tbsp neutral oil

How to cook it

  1. Heat 2 tbsp neutral oil in a large skillet over high heat and cook the garlic and chopped kimchi until sizzling, about 3 minutes.
  2. Stir in the gochujang and soy sauce and cook 1 minute.
  3. Add the rice, breaking up any clumps, and fry until hot and slightly crisp, about 5 minutes.
  4. Drizzle with sesame oil and half the scallions and toss, then divide among plates.
  5. Fry the eggs in the remaining oil until the edges crisp and the yolks stay runny.
  6. Top each portion with a fried egg, sesame seeds, and the remaining scallions.

Serve it with

A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kimchi Fried Rice, 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. Kimchi Fried Rice carries gluten, eggs, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Kimchi Fried Rice
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
Moderate
Protein
Medium
Protein quality
Complete
Food groups it covers
Grains, Vegetables, and Egg
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Kimchi Fried Rice takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

More to cook

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