
🇰🇷 Korean
Tofu Bibimbap
🇰🇷 Korean
A one-pot rice dish where tofu perfumes the grains as they cook — weeknight-friendly and endlessly adaptable. 32 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.
Prep 10 min Cook 22 min Serves 4 Medium
Ingredients
- Saltto taste
- Spinach150 g
- Garlic1, finely chopped
- Rice300 g
- Eggs4, fried
- Sesame Oil2 tbsp
- Tofu500 g
- Bean Sprouts150 g
- Stock or Broth600 ml
- Gochugaru1 tsp
- Gochujang2 tbsp
Optional extras
- Perilla Leaveshandful, to finish
Instructions
- 1
Rinse the rice until the water runs clear, then drain well.
- 2
Heat the Sesame Oil in a wide pot, soften the garlic, and bloom the gochugaru for 30 seconds.
- 3
Stir in the tofu, then add the rice and turn everything gently through the fragrant oil.
- 4
Pour in the stock, bring to a boil, then clamp on a lid and cook on the lowest heat for 15 minutes without peeking.
- 5
Rest off the heat for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork and crown with perilla leaves.
Chef's tip
Never lift the lid while the rice steams — trapped steam is doing the work.
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