Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice with Meat and Assorted Vegetables)

MEAT AND MEAT SAUCE

1 pound ground beef
4 Tbsp soy sauce
4 Tbsp sesame oil
4 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp minced garlic

VEGETABLES AND OTHER
4 oz baby spinach
4 oz bean sprouts
(I've also seen equal amounts of lettuce, red cabbage, onions, this is an extremely versatile dish. Use the veggies you want)
4 oz shiitake mushroom sliced very thin
1 medium or 3 baby carrots julienned


3 to 4 serving portions of steamed rice
1 egg per person
1 cucumber peeled and sliced very very thin. These will not be cooked, but served fresh and cold on top.
Some cooking oil to cook the meat, mushroom, carrots and eggs

BIBIMBAP SAUCE � You can find this premade as a stand alone sauce. If you're in the Plano or Carrollton area, H-Mart does carry it. Otherwise, here's how you make it.
2 Tbsp gochujang
1 Tbsp sesame oil
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp roasted sesame seeds
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp minced garlic


As always, start your meat marinating while you're assembling the rest of your ingredients. I know I don't need to tell you how to make rice. Stir fry each of your ingredients separately (I'm going to drive you crazy doing this over Asian stir fry, but this is the only way to guarantee you don't overcook ingredients) just until barely cooked and set to the side.
Fry your marinated meat last.

Serve into bowls with a layer of rice on the bottom a spoonful of each cooked veggie and meat, a little pickled ginger, raw cucumber, and an over easy fried egg on top. Stir everything together making sure to mix in the chili sauce and the runny egg yolk and it's dinner.

Pretty awesome, I have a Pinay spouse, we are always doing something like that. We are getting pretty fair with Thai. We go to a couple of places that do a noodle bowl similar to your thing but with vermicelli and or rice noodles and marinated pork and a red chili/fish sauce. OK I'm hungry now!

Has she ever tried to cook dried fish in the house?

Ha Ha, She lived her first 25 years in Malolos City so it's not like she was born here and her family actually had a restaurant. We make regular trips to the Asian store for things like milk fish and so on. Now about that cooking, we usually do that stinky stuff outside on a grill burner for obvious reasons. I can handle most all of it as I grew up with seafood but there is one version of seafood pancit that I just can't do.

Would

YUM YUM!!!