Bibimbap, The ultimate comfort food!
Bibimbap (비빔밥) is probably one of the most well-known and beloved Korean dishes to many people. Even if people don’t know anything about Korea, it’s not too difficult to find people who had Bibimbap sometime in their lives.
What is Bibimbap?
Bibimbap simply translates to “mixed rice with meat and assorted vegetables“. You can make endless variations to this dish depending on your preference and dietary requirements (e.g. microgreens bibimbap) and also based on the dish/bowl it is served in (e.g. dolsot bibimbap and yangpun bibimbap).
More traditional and authentic versions of Bibimbap are made with raw beef and raw egg yolk along with other vegetables, but I prefer making mine with cooked ingredients.
As I was growing up, my mom used make bibimbap to get rid of vegetable side dishes (banchan) that are getting a few days old (less fresh) or when she didn’t want to put much effort into a meal, she would just take out a few sautéed and seasoned vegetables and kimchi from the fridge, add a sprinkle of seasoned seaweed strips and made simple vegetarian bibimbap.
So I don’t recall having much nicely presented Bibimbap, like the top picture above at home, yet regardless of the presentation her Bibimbap was always tasty! Anyway, how do you make your bibimbap? Any secret ingredients to share with us?
I hope you enjoy my recipe!
How to Make Bibimbap (video tutorial)
Ingredients for Bibimbap (Serves 3 to 4)
Meat and meat sauce
- 100g / 3.5 ounces beef mince (or other cuts)
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp sugar – I used brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp minced garlic
Vegetables and other
- 250g (0.6 pounds) mildly seasoned spinach
- 350g (0.8 pounds) mildly seasoned bean sprouts – (You don’t have to use them up if you think it’s too much but I love having lots of vegetables on my Bibimbap!)
- 100g (3.5 ounces) shiitake mushroom
- 120g (4.2 ounces) carrots (1 small)
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt (1/4 tsp each will be used when cooking shiitake mushroom and carrots)
- 3 to 4 serving portions of steamed rice
- 3 or 4 eggs (depending on the serving portion)
- Some cooking oil to cook the meat, mushroom, carrots and eggs – I used rice bran oil.
- Korean seasoned seaweed, shredded (long thin cut)
Bibimbap sauce
- 2 Tbsp gochujang
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp sugar – I used raw sugar
- 1 Tbsp water
- 1 Tbsp roasted sesame seeds
- 1 tsp vinegar – I used apple vinegar
- 1 tsp minced garlic
Note
- Other vegetable options – Daikon radish salad, Korean cucumber side dish, gosari and bellflower root
- Feel free to check out my 3 other bibimbap sauces too!
- If you want to learn more about Korean cooking ingredients, check my 30 essential Korean cooking ingredients list!
- 1 Tbsp = 15 ml
Directions
1. Prepare and cook ingredients as below.
– For meat, mix the beef mince with the meat sauce listed above. Marinate the meat for about 30 mins while you are working on other ingredients to enhance the flavour. Add some cooking oil into a wok and cook the meat on medium high to high heat. It takes about 3 to 5 mins to thoroughly cook it.
– Mix the Bibimbap sauce ingredients in a bowl.
– Spinach and bean sprouts per linked recipe.
– Rinse, peel and julienne the carrots. Add some cooking oil and 1/4 tsp of fine sea salt in a wok and cook the carrots on medium high to high heat for 2 to 3 mins.
-Clean/rinse the shiitake mushrooms and thinly slice them. Add some cooking oil and 1/4 tsp of fine sea salt in a wok and cook the mushrooms on medium high to high heat until they are all cooked. (It takes 2 to 3 mins.)
– Make fried eggs. (While sunny side up is common, you can make them per your preference.)
2. Put the rice into a bowl and add the meat, assorted vegetables, seasoned seaweed, Bibimbap sauce and the egg on top of the rice. Serve it.
3. Mix the ingredients well in the bowl and enjoy!
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Bibimbap - Korean Mixed Rice with Meat and Assorted Vegetables
Ingredients
Meat and meat sauce
- 100 g beef mince (3.5 ounces), (or other cuts)
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp sugar , I used brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp minced garlic
Vegetables and other
- 250 g spinach (mildly seasoned) (0.6 pounds)
- 350 g bean sprouts (mildly seasoned) 0.8 pounds, You don’t have to use them up if you think it’s too much but I love having lots of vegetables on my Bibimbap!
- 100 g shiitake mushroom (3.5 ounces)
- 120 g carrots (4.2 ounces, 1 small)
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt (1/4 tsp each will be used when cooking shiitake mushroom and carrots)
- 3 cups steamed rice (3 to 4 serving portions )
- 3 eggs (3 or 4 depending on the serving portion)
- Some cooking oil (to cook the meat, mushroom, carrots and eggs – I used rice bran oil.)
- Some roasted seasoned seaweed shredded (long thin cut)
Bibimbap sauce - The below sauce might be only enough for 3 servings if you like eating it spicy.
- 2 Tbsp gochujang
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 1 Tbsp sugar - I used raw sugar
- 1 Tbsp water
- 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- 1 tsp vinegar - I used apple vinegar
- 1 tsp minced garlic
Instructions
- Prepare and cook ingredients as below.
- For meat, mix the beef mince with the meat sauce listed above. Marinate the meat for about 30 mins while you are working on other ingredients to enhance the flavour. Add some cooking oil into a wok and cook the meat on medium high to high heat. It takes about 3 to 5 mins to thoroughly cook it.- Mix the Bibimbap sauce ingredients in a bowl.- Spinach and bean sprouts per linked recipe.- Rinse, peel and julienne the carrots. Add some cooking oil and 1/4 tsp of fine sea salt in a wok and cook the carrots on medium high to high heat for 2 to 3 mins.- Clean/rinse the shiitake mushrooms and thinly slice them. Add some cooking oil and 1/4 tsp of fine sea salt in a wok and cook the mushrooms on medium high to high heat until they are all cooked. (It takes 2 to 3 mins.)- Make fried eggs. (While sunny side up is common, you can make them per your preference.) - Put the rice into a bowl and add the meat, assorted vegetables, seasoned seaweed, Bibimbap sauce and the egg on top of the rice. Serve it.
- Mix the ingredients well in the bowl and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition Info (per serving)
The nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Just cooked this for the fam. Thumbs up from everyone! Another winner! Thanks so much for demystifying Korean food for us! Love from Malaysia!
Made some beef bibimbap using your recipe. It was amazing! Much better than restaurant-made bibimbap
This is so good we fight over the sauce! It’s definitely a firm favourite in our house.
This recipe is fantastic! We made it tonight using thinly sliced flank steak. It was every bit as good as our favorite Korean restaurant. Looking forward to trying more of your recipes!
Wow! We were only missing the hot stone bowls for an authentic experience! Thanks for taking us to Korea while we’re in lockdown. A warm bowl of deliciousness for a cold night.
This was REALLY good. The sauce was well balanced with some heat but not too spicy to use generously. I loved how easy it was to adapt the meal for my 3 year old by giving him just the components I know he likes. This would be so convenient to make during nap time then just reheat for dinner.
I was introduced to BiBimbap when I stationed in Korea. Fell in love with the dish, looked for it for many years afterI came back to the states, finally found a tiny Korean restaurant called Mona’s. Was there atleast once or twice a week lol. Now that I retired and moved, I am looking forward to making Bibimbap, japchae, Bulgogi, and galbi. Atleast I’ll try. I got her to eat kimchi, now for the dishes. I think she’ll love it.
Gave this a go for the first time today and it went down very well. Nowhere near as pretty looking as yours but certainly delicious.
What other recipes would you recommend that a picky 5 year old may eat?
Great to hear you enjoyed my recipe. Perhaps you could try Japchae or bulgogi for your child next time? Hope your family enjoy them! 🙂
Took a long time to make/prepare the different components, but so worth the effort – delicious!
This recipe is amazing! It tastes exactly like my local Korean restaurant’s bibimbap!
I tried to make it today, even without spinach and i use shimeji mushroom instead of shitake, the result still very delicious!! Definitely will make it again for my best friend too. We love Korean food. Thanks for the recipe, Sue.
Always seen this in videos and always looks so delicious! Tried the recipe with the doenjang sauce (I can’t do spicy) and it was so good. Definitely gonna make this more often!
This was so delicious! Just the bibimbap sauce on it’s own was amazing! (We had it on plain rice the next day). This will become a new weekly favourite in our house. Thank you!!
This has become my favorite Bibimbap recipe and I could eat it everyday! (I have been slightly disappointed with other past recipes I have tried.) Not being a mushroom fan I ended up using pork belly, carrots, onions, zuchinni, seaweed strips, kimchi, green onion kimchi, and of course topped with an egg.
After trying a few of your recipes, and each one being a delicious success, I have decided that you will be my go-to for all Korean recipes!!
My husband and I made this for dinner — we had 1.34 lbs of beef so we tripled the beef marinade. Used store-bought kimchi, pickled carrots, sauteed spinach & mushrooms as toppings, along with the Bibimbap sauce & a fried egg. This was so so good. Restaurant quality if not better. Will be saving to make again.
I very much enjoyed this recipe, but I later learned that a key feature is to crisp the rice in the bottom of the bowl. I plan to try this again with the stone bowl I purchased. I’m just curious why you omitted this from your recipe?
There are many ways to make bibimbap. Crispy rice at the bottom of a bowl is just one feature amongst variations, not the key feature. (Although, you could say that it is the key feature of dolsot bibimbap.) You can make crispy rice in the bottom of a bowl using my dolsot bibimbap recipe. You can also make it with a cast iron skillet.
Often Korean restaurants serve bibimbap without the stone bowl. If they do offer that, they would usually sell it as dolsot bibimbap. Typically it is pricer. Hope this helps! 🙂
I LOVE this recipe. It has become a staple in our home! It is the perfect mix of flavors
This recipe was great! Tastes just like the bibimbap I had in Seoul.
This is amazing! My husband and I loved it and can’t wait to try your other sauces.
hello 🙂 can you save cooked bibimbop in the fridge and eat it the next day?
Yes. you just need to reheat.
That was so yummy. Thank you!
Hi Sue..thank you for sharing your recipe and showed us how to prepare it…I tried earlier and it was good..as all were prepared today..the dish was warm..my question is do you normally have warm rice but mix with COLD side dishes? Do I have to warm up the side the dishes in the next meal? I’m just started to be interested in Korean meals..thank you
Typically, it’s warm rice with cold side dishes. – This is what many Koreans do at home to clear out their fridge.
If you want to eat warm rice & warm side dishes (with crispy rice as a bonus), you should serve it in a hot stone bowl, using this dolsot bibimbap recipe. https://mykoreankitchen.com/dolsot-bibimbap/ You can get this hot stone bowl effect in a cast iron skillet as well (Also mentioned in the linked recipe here). Hope this helps. 🙂
After a year of Covid lockdowns, and not being able to go to my favourite Korean restaurants, this recipe satisfied my biggest craving.
Thank you so much.
I made this last night for dinner, and it was so easy to prepare and make.
On top of that, it was one of the best Bibimbap’s I’ve had since my last trip to Seoul.
This week I’ll be trying your other recipes.
I had a fun time prepping these ingredients and my husband and I really enjoyed the meal! I added homemade pickled onions as well.
Hi,
I haven’t made this yet, but want to try. Can I marinate tofu with the same marinade you use for the beef? I’m vegetarian
Made this for dinner, but with ground soybeans because I didn’t have any meat. Turned out super well! 100% will repeat and 100% would recommend!
My father has been a huge fan of Korean food and culture since being stationed there. I have sought high and low for recipes that would remind him of what he ate while there. Your recipes have fit every time. Everyone in the family loves them, from 6 years old to 66. For people with diabetic issues, substitute the rice with quinoa- it will taste almost the same. Gluten free and low sodium is also doable with all these recipes too.. We can never thank you enough!
Dang, I clicked “Post” before i rated the recipe… so, here go the stars…
This was so delicious. In quarantine I have watched more BTS videos I care to admit and I’m always wondering what they are eating. Enter Korean cuisine! This was my first try at a Bibimbap and it was delicious. Where I live (Hanover, Germany) there is one (read: 1!) Korean restaurant so to compare I’m gonna try their Bibimbap too. But me and the hubby (for whom I substituted the minced beef with tofu) were very happy and satisfied. Thanks for posting. Hot pot is next 😉
I made this recipe yesterday and it tasted so good, thank you!
But the portion of rice was too little! What do you mean with 1 cup of rice per person? 100g per person? Or maybe more?
I tried cooking this and my family loved it. Is it okay to also use baby bella mushroom instead of shitake cause I have a hard time looking for a fresh shitake . Thank you so much.
Yes, that’s fine. 🙂
Excellent, my first korean recipe
This is FREAKING AWESOME… Thanks for the recipe… Very good…
hey im just wondering how spicy is the sauce?
Very good
I tried your bibimbap recipe (above). It was delicious. Soooo good
Thanks
I accidentally marinated the meat with the bibimbap sauce rather than the meat sauce 🤦🏽♀️ Doh. It still turned out really yummy!
😂 I’m pleased to hear it still turned out well. 🙂
I made this tonight and it was so amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for such a delicious and easy recipe. It was very helpful to see instructions and pictures step by step.
We love bibimbap and this is the complete recipe, with the seasoned spinach and seasoned mung bean shoots. The video was great, showing the very attractive presentation in the bowl. I have made this three times already and it is going on my list of regular meals to serve. If I make a double amount of seasoned spinach would the extra serving keep in the fridge for a day or two? Thanks for a fantastic bibimbap.
I loved this. I made it for dinner for my family and they all loved it. I am 16 btw and my mum said it was so delicious that I was the best cook in the family. We mixed some kimchi and seaweed salad in and it added a nice spicy crunchy aspect to the dish. Super tasty and easy, I definitely will make it again.
I have been craving bibimbap and this recipe was delicious and very easy to follow! The majority of the time is in prepping the ingredients but actual cook time was very short. Will definitely be making this again. The sauce is fantastic.
So delicious… a definite 5 stars. Simple to make and very yummy. The only change was I did 2X the amount of sauce for the beef. Other than that this recipe is definitely a keeper.
I’m 100% Korean, and I approve this recipe
Question: Do you mix the spinach and bean sprouts into the bibimpap or serve as side dishes?
You mix everything in the bowl – rice, meat, vegetables and the sauce. 🙂
I find easy to make. Perfect recepie.
Excellent recipe, versatile. The family loved it. I followed the recipe except a couple upgrades. For something special here are my changes: I grilled 2 lbs higher quality beef and cut it into strips. Added sauteed sugar snap peas and kim chi. Sliced an English cucumber thin and marinated for an hour in rice wine vinegar, a tsp of sugar and tsp of salt.
The sauce is yummy but not very spicy, so I added more heat.
My family loved it!!!!
Used this recipe because it’s lockdown & I can’t go to Korea or just go to a Korean resto. My family loved it.
what kind of rice should i use to make it?
Short (e.g. sushi rice) or medium grain rice would be typical Koreans’ choice. But I’ve seen other people making it with long grain rice (e.g. jasmine or basmati) as well.
I just made this for supper and it was amazing
I have everything except the seaweed. I only have dried wakame. I am wondering if I could make some kind of substitute using the wakame? Thanks
One of the beauty of bibimbap is that you can make with whatever is available. If you don’t have any seasoned seaweed, you can make bibimbap without it. It will still be delicious! 🙂
I love bibimbap! The variety of toppings and gochujang sauce are the best!
HOLY SMOKES! I made this for dinner this evening…all you could hear around the dinner table from my family of 5 was the clanking of chop sticks and mmmmmmm. Incredible flavors all beautifully balanced together. Thank you for sharing this recipe!!!
Absolutely love this recipe, especially the bibimbap sauce. I like making this with thin sliced steak as well as tofu slices (I have one vegetarian daughter, one omnivore daughter), also mixing in a nice pile of kimchi. Happiness in a bowl.
My family was so sad when the Korean restaurant by our house became a seafood place, but this recipe is exactly what we got at the restaurant! I have never been so happy with my cooking. Thank you!
LOVE this recipe!!! Thank you so much! I’ve been making this once a week for dinner during quarantine and it is amazing. Been using the spinach recipe and the sprouts, substitute baby Bella mushrooms when shiitake isn’t available and works great.
Love it! Since my family is into Korean cuisines when I made them try this recipe they absolutely loved it! It does take some time to prepare everything but the end result is totally worth it. Definitely would make again 🙂
Amazing! My son and I made this together. Had so much fun and he says this is the best meal he’s EVER had.
I’m so pleased to hear you guys had a good family bonding time and also enjoyed the meal together! Thanks for your feedback. 🙂
This was such a delicious recipe!! It took some time but was well worth the effort! Only thing I did different was put my chuck roast in the slow cooker for 8 hours and used a cast iron skillet rather than wok. It worked great! Thanks so much for the recipe! I can’t wait to try more!
I had this recipe pinned for ages and finally tried it last night. As I had to do the rice and veg at the same time, it took a while, but I can see how this would be super quick to make if you had left over veg to put in (I had planned to make those the day before and just reheat but didn’t get to it).
I ended up substituting in Sambal Oelek for the Gochujang as I couldn’t find any in my local stores and didn’t want to wait for it to come in. It came out great and I loved it but just wondering about the taste difference had I been able to use Gochujang instead. Any thoughts on that?
This bibimbap recipe is perfect! I loved it. Whenever I go to korean restaurants, I always look for bibimbap and I get disappointed most of the time. Now I can make it at the comfort of my home to satisfy my bibimbap cravings. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!
Great to hear! 🙂
Once again a must try ! My wife and I both enjoy korean food, but we always had a hard time finding good korean recipes until we came across your blog ! This recipe in particular is one of our favourite. Thanks a lot for all the effort you put in this and for giving us the opportunity to cook and enjoy your delicious homemade meal.
Very good recipe. Easy To make and so good!
Had this last night. It was the best bibimbap we’ve had by far!
Awesome! I’m so pleased to hear that. 🙂
Excellent recipe! I’m trying to minimize my use of white rice if possible; do you think a brown seaweed rice base would work well with it?
Do you mean brown rice? Absolutely, it should work well with all types of rice in my opinion. 🙂 I have even seen people making this with cauliflower rice. Enjoy!
Thanks Sue. This recipe blew our minds! Replaced the honey & nashipear with HongKong style plum sauce and otherwise followed your directions to the T.
WOW! Took me straight back to Singapore.
Thank you once again
This recipe is so easy to adjust and change a few things around if you have fussy stomachs to feed, and they’ll still be able to get their greens in! Such an easy and delicious dish to which I’ll definitely be surprising all my guests over when they can come! ❤️ So delish!
I found this recipe years ago, printed it and have it on regular rotation on our menu. I’ve made it using the recipe to a “T” as well as modifying with what I have on hand. It’s always so good! I have meat marinating now, for a special dinner tonight. One of our top 3 favorites! Thank you for sharing this treasure!
This was SO GOOD!!!!! This recipe is probably going to be a regular in our recipe rotation. That bibimbap sauce is going to be a new staple in our fridge.
Thumbs up!👍👍👍👍 The whole family enjoyed it!
Excellent recipe! We loved every bite, but for 4 adults I would double EVERYTHING and have a little extra for leftovers.
This actually turned out much better than expected – the sauce flavors were both spot-on and it was definitely better than some of the bibimbops we’ve gotten from restaurants! We went with sliced beef instead of the mince, and marinated it for 4 hrs to make sure it was super tender and flavorful.
Great recipe! Made it tonight and we totally enjoyed it. The bibimbap sauce was just nice for 2 portions for us. Will definitely make again. Thanks Sue!!
This was SO good! Made it with my husband last night and everything was so delicious. I used kale instead of spinach (we happened to have quite a lot of kale). Thank you for posting!
This recipe is so easy and forgiving. I make this using heated mini cast iron skillets to get the crunchie rice on the bottom. You can make this with any kind of meat and vegetable combo. I have started making extra sauce because it just that good. Thank you for the recipe.
Great to hear you enjoyed my recipe! Yes, you can make crunchy bibimbap rice with cast iron skillet just like you would get using Korean dolsot (stone pot). I have the video instruction in this recipe (https://mykoreankitchen.com/dolsot-bibimbap/) if anyone wants to learn how to. 🙂
Great recipe! My family LOVED it. The sauce is so so good. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Happy to hear your family enjoyed it. 🙂
what kind of rice should I use? Making it tonight! Thanks!
I used short grain white rice also known as sushi rice. I’ve also made with white rice/brown rice combo and purple rice as well. Enjoy!
Perfect! Thanks so much for the quick response—& for the recipe! 🙂
I keep making this dish. Best recipe ever!
Very nice. Will make it again..
Hi Sue,
Many thanks for your wonderful website. To date I’ve used several of your easy to follow recipes and the results (even for me!) have been awesome. My Korean visitors are really impressed. They couldn’t understand how I knew how to prepare such delicious meals. So I just told them, ‘Look no further than, ‘My Korean Kitchen’!
Huge thanks
My pleasure! I’m so happy to hear you & your guests have been enjoying my recipes. Thanks for your feedback. 🙂
Thanks for this delicious Bibimbap recipe, my husband loved it! (me too :))
I made this recipe for dinner tonight, I didn’t have a lot of the vegetable ingredients (mushrooms, carrots, bean sprouts), but I made the spinach and sautéed a yellow pepper and some onions and topped with kimchi. It was delicious!!! I think the kimchi really brought it together and gave the crunch I was missing from the carrots and a little extra tang, so good! Thank you for the recipe 🙂
We just made Bibimbap today for the very first time. It was so good that my son said it was the best meal he has had for a long time. He liked your bibimbap better than from the restaurant because everything was so fresh. Thank you so much for the wonderful recipe. We will try some more recipes from you since this was the first Korean dish that we tried to cook from scratch. Thanks again!
This recipe is so good! I’ve now made this 3 days in a row haha. It tastes just like how the restaurants make it.
Thank you! Happy to hear you’ve been enjoying my bibimbap recipe 3 days in a row! 🙂
This is THE best recipe ever! We used flank steak sliced thin. Served it at a large family gathering and everyone RAVED about this! I CRAVE this dish! Please try it as it will be one of your favorite recipes!!!!
I’m so happy to hear your family enjoyed this meal! Thanks for your feedback. 🙂
We made the rice bowl it was just delicious our sone spent time in Korea working and on a visit we had a version of the rice bowl
Had a bibimbap craving and followed your recipe and it’s sooo good I inhaled it. I now want a stone bowl to make dolsot bibimbap. Even my husband who is not adventurous at all said it was really tasty. Leftover to take to lunch tomorrow.
Thanks!
that’s it!!
I have made this receipe, and i cried when i tasted it.
My boyfriend and i are a huge fan of korean food, so props!
LOOVEEEE IT
Delicious recipe!
OMG! The first time I made this recipe, I was blown away. So I made this for 14 of my family members and EVERYONE LOVED IT! This is such a great, healthy, flavor filled dish. This is excellent!!! Try this!
Everyone in my family (and I have a big one) loved it! Everything is perfect – the sauce is to die for! Thank you so much for sharing. Can’t wait to try your other recipes.
This Bibimbap recipe was EXCELLENT!!!! Don’t pass this one up!!! In fact, we are going to have family at our lake condo next weekend and everyone will help prepare this dish…division of labor. The marinade and sauce are excellent! It is a restaurant worthy recipe. In fact, it’s better, because it is not salty like you can get when eating out. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!
Thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it! 🙂 Division of labor is an excellent idea. 😉
I did a single portion version with a carrot, half a zucchini, a big mushroom and about the same quantity of thinly sliced onions and added leftover tilapia instead of beef. For the bibimbap sauce I put a teaspoon of every ingredient listed except for the gochujang that I replaced with sriracha because I didn’t have any. It was delicious! Thank you for the recipe 😊
Great to hear it worked well even with sriracha sauce. 🙂
Meal planning for this week. Absolutely can’t wait to try!
I’ve made this a few times at home and it’s a huge hit. Thank you so much!
Awesome!
Ahh I have been craving some good bibimbap ever since I came back from China! They had tons of Korean restaurants there. Can’t vouch for how authentic they were, but many were flocked by Korean expats. I made this dish with only a carrot and a cucumber, which I prepared in a salad like she recommended, for veggies. It was so tasty as is and I know it would’ve been totally delicious with all of the veggies added! Next thing to try is the KFC. It is hands down my favorite meal from Korea. Thanks Sue!
Happy to hear you enjoyed it. Hope you like my KFC recipe too. 🙂
I’ve tried this one last night and it was really the authentic korean bibimbap i’ve tried in a korean restuarant. The best! Thank you for sharing😚😋
Great to hear you enjoyed it. Thank you for your feedback!
The best Bibimbap ever!!!
Thank you!
I LOVE this recipe!! I found you, and your recipe about 5 years ago, and this has been my only Bibimbap recipe since!
Thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear that! 🙂
Perfect. Easily to heat for lunch at work.
Just had it for lunch. I did 1 tsp of garlic instead of a quarter tsp because I love garlic. it tasted great!
That’s great! Happy to hear! 🙂
Every Bibimap Ive had in any Korean house or restaurant ALWAYS has the rice crispy fried at the bottom.
Otherwise its just rice and veg/meat and not really bibimap.
Your understanding is not quite correct. What you’re referring is “dolsot bibimbap”, which is just a type of bibimbap. I’ve already included the reference within the post above, but you can also check the dolsot bibimbap recipe from here. https://mykoreankitchen.com/dolsot-bibimbap/
My son asked me to make bibimbap once (he used to work as a chef), and I had no idea what it was. I googled it and picked your recipe and have made it several times since and today I was reminded how delicious it is. We all love your recipe – thanks!!
That’s so sweet. Thank you! 🙂
I have a post on Bibimbap; going to link to your recipe here. Thank you!
Ahhh…. i mistakenly buy the dried seaweed instead of Seasoned seaweed,,,
Seasoned seaweed is only optional. 🙂 Also, you can make this soup with your dried seaweed. https://mykoreankitchen.com/brown-seaweed-soup-miyeok-guk/ FYI, they do last a long time.
This was the first Korean meal I ever ate, on a KAL flight between Los Angeles and Seoul. I did not understand the cabin crew and had no idea what I had just agreed to eat.
But if you are on a plane to Korea, it’s time to start eating Korean!
It was delicious.
Do the bean sprouts and spinach have to be warm for this dish? I just feel like (with how quick they go cold) they will go cold by the time the dish is prepared. Is it normal with this dish or should they be reheated?
You can use cold bean sprouts and spinach. They don’t need to be reheated. You can even use fresh bean sprouts and spinach if you like. 🙂
But if you want overall dish to be warm, you can do so by serving it in a dolsot (Korean hot stone bowl for bibimbap) and heat it up. You can find my tips on dolsot bibimbap from https://mykoreankitchen.com/dolsot-bibimbap/
Oh I need to get me some ceramic bowls now! Haha
Thanks! 🙂
I’m trying this recipe tonight. So far everything tastes great, but I’m a little confused; is the spinach cooked? Also, the bean sprouts warm supposed to be warm or cold? Thanks
Yes, the spinach is cooked here. But you can use fresh spinach instead as well.
Bean sprouts can be used warm or cold. It doesn’t really matter.
Dear Sue,
Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe with us.
My boyfriend and I truly became addicted and need to have this once a week now!
I love your blog! Keep up with the good work.
Best,
Sue
Thank you! Happy to hear that you guys love bibimbap so much. 🙂
Wow – what a popular recipe! Will definitely try it – I think I need to look at your 30 ingredients list first!
This was so good!! I didn’t find the sauce to be spicy at all? But that could be because I’m Cuban and Jamaican and we put multiple scotch bonnet peppers in some of our meals. I think I’ll add some more gochujan to mine. Also, because of this I also realized how much I love sesame oil lol
Now I’m worried my mom is gonna make it all the time, because it was really easy to make especially since we always have rice ready.
That’s so good to hear, Renee! Hope your love for bibimbap grows even more! 🙂
Sue,
I just made this tonight for the first time. It was my first time on your site. I didn’t think it was too time consuming. I cheated and doubled the sauce for the bean sprouts and spinach and used a rice cooker. We are military so my husband and our neighbor were both stationed in Korea and I visited twice. I brought a bowl next door as a taste test before my husband gets home and it was a hit! I’ll definitely be trying more of these recipes. Hopefully I can find one for yaki mandu! Thank you!
Hi Michelle, Glad to hear you enjoyed my bibimbap recipe! I have a kimchi mandu recipe you can try if you like. https://mykoreankitchen.com/kimchi-mandu-kimchi-dumplings/ An instruction for pan frying method and steaming method are included in the recipe. Enjoy!
This is one of my favorite Korean food! Loving your reciper of bibimbap. One of the nicest I’d tried.
Thank you!
Thank you for posting! Very good recipe, especially the meat marinade and the spicy sauce. Will keep them in my recipe book forever. Thanks again, you are a wonderful cook!
Thanks for your kind words! So glad to hear that you enjoyed my recipe! 🙂
Made this tonight and it was amazing!!
Great to haer, Erin!
Thanks so much for this super yummy recipe! Just substituted some ingredients and left out the egg for a vegan bibimbap!
Very good! But I find the sauce is waaaay too sweet. I would reduce to 1/2-1 tsp of sugar.
Wow, what a wonderful and informative recipe. I especially enjoyed viewing the additional options, along with, the basic recipe. I opted to add fernbrake out of curiosity and availability. I also went light on the sugar across the board on this recipe because of my personal taste. Again wow!! Thank you for your informative blog.
Thank you! 🙂
Thanks for the awesome and easy to understand recipe! I especially liked your sauce! I made a similar version and blogged about it! My husband and I both loved this!
Great to hear, Erika! I agree, the sauce is the killer in this recipe! 😉
This was awesome!!!! Thank you so much!
Great! I’m happy to hear that! 🙂
Does the spinach and bean sprouts need to be seasoned?
Hi Jacey, you can use raw unseasoned spinach and bean sprouts if you like. But in this recipe they are both cooked & seasoned. Respective recipes are linked above but I will also link here as well. https://mykoreankitchen.com/simply-seasoned-korean-spinach-salad-sigeumchi-namul-version-1/ and https://mykoreankitchen.com/korean-style-seasoned-mung-bean-sprouts-salad-sukju-namul-muchim/ Hope this helps!
Thank you for this recipe! I used to live near a Korean restaurant. Bibimbap was my favorite dish! Well I moved away and couldn’t find a place that made it in my new town. It took me way too long to realize I could make it myself. Your recipe is wonderful and very satisfying.
Hi Carrie, glad to hear my recipe can satisfy your cravings! 🙂
This is a family favorite!!! Each person add the quantity of sauce that match their taste. Very spicy for me and my sons, mindly spicy for my husband and slightly spicy for my daughter. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Very happy to hear your family loves my recipe! 🙂
Hi Sue,
I am so excited to try this recipe. What type of rice do you use? Short grain, sushi? Or does it not matter. Thanks!
Hi Jana, I use short grain rice. They are the best! 🙂
I’ve enjoyed making this recipe for a couple years. Thank you so much! Would it be ok for me to translate this recipe and publish it on my personal blog? Of course I’ll give you credit for the recipe and link to the original.
Yes, that should be fine. Thanks.
Thank you so much . I like it ,I’ll try to cook it ,it’s look like delicious
But when you said
[ Some Korean seasoned seaweed shredded (long thin cut) ],
What do you mean in this part , I can’t understand these ingredient can explain it please ?
Hi memanh, have you had a seasoned seaweed like this one? http://amzn.to/2voFOPl It’s a very common Korean side dish, which you can easily buy from a Korean / asian grocer. You just need to shredded a few of these sheets. If you can’t find these, you don’t have to add them. It just adds nicer flavour to bibimbap. That’s all. Enjoy! 🙂
Hi! I’m thinking of making this and keeping it in the fridge for the next few days. Should i keep the vegetables together or separately? Will water come out from the mushroom?
I would keep the vegetables separately. Yes, the mushroom will release some water. Enjoy!
I am so glad I came upon this recipe! Love to eat it for breakfast. I just eliminate the beef and use an extra egg. I use whatever is at hand, usually kale, broccoli slaw, onions, bean sprouts, mushrooms, kimchee, and minced habaneros or Thai peppers (I like it hot). Also substitute quinoa if I don’t have left over rice, since it’s quick to prepare and is a good source of protein.
Thanks again for a great recipe…the sauce is awesome. Can’t wait to check out and try your other recipes.
Hi Diana, Your breakfast sounds so good and healthy! Yes, I also do think the sauce is the key. The rest is use whatever you have in your pantry and fridge. 🙂 Glad to hear you enjoyed my recipe!
Hello, I have long been a lover of Korean cuisine but am now recently undertaking to attempt to make things myself. I really look forward to making your recipe. My question is, what surface do you use to cook? I have a wok but I wondered if what I saw in the video recipe was one of the small portable gas burners that I have seen in stores and Korean TV shows. Or, please inform me if it is something else.
감사합니다! 맛있게 먹겠습니다.
Hi Severin, Normally I cook on the induction cooktop. But for video shooting, I use a portable gas burner because of the angle and lighting issue. Other than that, I use a portable gas burner for hot pot cooking and Korean BBQ where you eat food as you cook. So it’s worth having it at home. Hope this helps! 🙂
Hi, I would like to try the recipe but is it possible to use beef sirlion in place of the beef mince
Of course, Rhoda! Some people even use pork or chicken. FYI. Enjoy! 🙂
I’m excited to try this. My husband hates spicy food — do you have a suggestion for a milder but flavorful sauce?
Perhaps you can reduce the gochujang and add a bit of soy sauce instead. 🙂
This recipe is amazing I have had it so many times since I found it and everyone that tries it LOVES it. Also, the best part is I don’t have to pay to eat at a restaurant anymore! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Great to hear you’re enjoying my bibimbap recipe! Saving money is added bonus! 🙂
I preferred the taste of this meal over bibimbap i’ve gotten at Korean restaurants around me. It’s a lot of work but so worth it. Thanks!
Thanks, Carrie! You can reduce the types of vegetable ingredients that goes into to make it quicker. Nonetheless, glad to hear you enjoyed it!!
I made this last night and it was amazing! I might not have to buy it anymore since finding this recipe, Thanks so much!!
So happy to hear that! 🙂
Hi. Which rice do you use? Thanks
Hi Ami, I used short grain white rice (also known as sushi rice) for this recipe. Something like this one. Hope this helps!
How spicy is this bibimbap sauce? I like some heat but not unbearable.
Spice level is pretty subjective to describe. I suggest you add 1 Tbsp of gochujang first then add more if you can handle it. 🙂
This is a great recipe, so simply and easy….very healthy
Thanks, Suzi!
i have been into Korean traditions since i always watch Korean dramas but I’ve always been really in love on the foods they eat! can’t wait to try this recipe someday,your bibimbap really looks delicious!