Gondeurebap

About the dish

Gondeurebap is rice steamed with Gangwon's mountain gondre herb and mixed with a soy seasoning sauce. It carries the wisdom of Gangwon's lean years, when mountain greens stretched the rice pot.

Key ingredient

Gondre (Korean thistle) — digestion-friendly and helpful for blood sugar, blood pressure and circulation; anti-inflammatory and good for liver and skin. Peak in June, from areas like Taebaek.

Ingredients

Main: rice, gondre, perilla oil · Seasoning: sauce of soy sauce, chili flakes, chopped scallion, sesame oil

Simple recipe

1. Toss blanched gondre with perilla oil and soup soy sauce.
2. Lay the gondre over soaked rice and cook.
3. Steam through fully.
4. Make the seasoning sauce.
5. Mix the sauce into the rice and serve.

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