Recipe: Haemul Bokgeumbap

There’s nothing better in this world than a bowl of steaming hot fried rice. If you’re looking for a way to mix up your usual fried rice game, why not give this heamul bokguembap (seafood fried rice) a try. Here is the Recipe Haemul Bokgeumbap.

Ingredients:

• 6 large shrimp, shelled, deveined, rinsed, and pat-dry
• 6 large sea scallops, rinsed and drained
• 4 to 6 cleaned littleneck clams
• 12 cleaned mussels
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• A pinch of ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon potato starch
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• ¼ cup chopped onion
• 1 green onion, chopped
• 2½ cups white fluffy rice (made with 1 cup rice)
• 2 to 3 tablespoons gochujang (Korean hot pepper paste)
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds (home toasted sesame seeds)

Directions:

1. Firstly, season cleaned shrimps and scallops with salt and black paper. Next, add the potato starch and mix well.
2. Then, add the vegetable oil to a heated pan and sauté garlic, onion, and green onion until fragrant and slightly brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
3. In the same pan, on high heat, add the shrimp and scallops one by one and cook for about 1 to 2 minutes until the bottoms turn light golden brown. Turn them over and let the other side brown as well. Transfer cooked seafood onto a plate.
4. Next, lower the heat to medium on the same pan and add mussels and a ¼ cup water. Cover the pan with a lid and cook until the mussels are open. This may take around 3 to 4 minutes. Once open, remove from heat.
5. Once the clams and mussels have cooled down, split the shells and discard the empty half-shell.
6. Then again, with the same pan on medium heat, add in sautéed garlic mixture, gochujang (Korean hot pepper paste), and 1 teaspoon soy sauce. Once homogenous, stir in rice.
7. Later, reduce the heat to a low flame and arrange cooked seafood on top of the rice. Cover the lid and cook for 2 more minutes.
8. Lastly, remove from heat and serve with a drizzle of sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds.

This Recipe Haemul Bokgeumbap is super easy right! For spice lovers out there, you could add in a little wasabi that’s bound to make this simple but satisfying dish tastier. Be sure to use fresh seafood to ramp up the flavour profile of your recipe heamul bokgeumbap.

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