Year-end Bibimbap

About the dish

Seotdal bibimbap is the year-end 'clear-the-pantry' mixed rice, using up every leftover namul before the new year. Bibimbap — 'mixed rice' — tosses colorful seasoned vegetables and rice together, here in a final feast on New Year's Eve.

Key ingredient

Rice (ssal) — Korea's staple and main energy source; quick to digest with B vitamins for a balanced meal. Autumn harvest, mainly from Icheon & Yeoju.

Ingredients

Main: rice, snow crab, cucumber, Korean squash, carrot, balloon-flower root, egg, gim · Seasoning: salt, sesame oil, minced garlic, sesame, sugar

Simple recipe

1. Clean the crab and steam shell-down about 10 min.
2. Julienne and salt the squash and cucumber, then stir-fry.
3. Blanch and season the carrot, then stir-fry.
4. Tear the balloon-flower root, draw out bitterness, blanch and season.
5. Fry and julienne egg ribbons.
6. Toast and crumble the gim.
7. Pick the crab meat from shell and legs.
8. Mound the namul and crab over rice and top with gim and egg.

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