People in Korea usually cook fried rice when they don’t have many ingredients left in the fridge (because it is quite simple to make with a few things), or when they need to get rid of left over vegetables.
This meal may look difficult to cook if you looked up the ingredients, however you can use minimum ingredients such as Kimchi, half an onion, some rice and oil, and Gochujang sauce to make “Kimchi fried rice”.
(Warning - This food can be spicy to people who aren’t used it.)
Ingredients for 2 people are :
(Expected preparation time: 5 min, cooking time:10 min)
- 1/2 a medium size onion
- 1/2 the tuna from a 250g can
- Kimchi 40g
- Legs from 2 small squids (or 1/2 squid flesh)
- 1/5 of a zucchini
- Steamed rice for 2 people
- Some oil (I used oil from the tuna can)
– Preparation –
1. Cut some squid legs into medium size pieces.
2. Add seasoning to the squid and mix it well. 
-Seasoning squid with
- Soy sauce -1 tsp
- A sprinkle of pepper
- Sugar -1 tsp
- Gochujang (chili paste) -1 tsp (heaped)
3. Cut onion and zucchini into small cubes.
4. Slice Kimchi into small pieces.
–Cooking–
1. Put some oil into a wok.
2. Pan fry onion first, then add the other ingredients about every 2 minutes in the following order: zucchini, Kimchi, squid, tuna.
3. Put the rice into the wok. Stir it thoroughly with vegetables and meat. Then add the following sauce and mix it. This sauce is optional but it tastes better if you do so.
- Sesame oil 1/2 tsp
- Gochujang (chili paste) 1 tsp
4. Serve it on the plate.
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I love this Korean fried rice. It’s a bit spicy and hot but, when you’re used to eat spicy foods, I bet you’ll love it too. Poor boy, I couldn’t find such food’s ingredients to the country I am staying right now. Not unless, if I’ll be back again in Seoul, I will eat this food up to the fullest of my belly.
Must I use Korean rice for this recipe? Can you teach me how to cook Korean rice? How many cups water to rice? I tried cooking it like I cook long grain rice, the texture is somewhat different from those that I eat in Korean restaurants. Is Japanese rice similar? Any short grain rice will do?
Hi Lyna,
I think you can use any kinds of rice for stir frying but I’ve never tried other kinds of rice for that.
You can use Japanese rice. I think it has the closest taste as Korean rice. By the way, I use medium grain rice.
For cooking rice, do you boil it? or use a rice cooker?
In either case, the traditional method I learnt from my mom for water is pouring water until it covers the knuckles of your hand when you put your hand flat on the rice.