Hwedupbap is one of my favorite dishes.
One order of “hwedupbap” with tofu bean paste soup will be a reasonable meal because it consists of a balanced ratio of all nutrients! However, if you can’t eat raw fish, I recommend the vegetarian version of this dish using tofu.
What if you don’t have tofu? :) Oh, well! Then skip it. Mix rice and assorted fresh vegetables with my secret hot spicy sauce! One thing you can’t skip is lots of sesame oil!

Ingredients:
- Fresh raw salmon, tuna (or frozen) and flying fish roe (orange),
- 1 carrot, 2 cups of lettuce, ½ cucumber (half cup), 7 or 8 sesame leaves,
- 2 green onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 ts of juice from ginger,
- 1 package of tofu, bean paste, dried anchovies, laver (kim), sesame oil,
- sesame seeds, soy sauce, sugar, hot pepper paste, and vinegar

- Cook rice.
- Make soup:
- In a pot, put 5 cups of water and 8-10 dried anchovies (remove heads and intestines) and boil for about 10 minutes.
- Remove the anchovies from the pot and add 1½ tbs bean paste. Lower the heat.
- Dice ½ package of tofu (about 1 cup) into 0.5-1cm cubes and add them to #2 and boil a few more minutes and turn the heat off.
- Chop up 1 green onion.
- Sprinkle the chopped green onion over the soup just before serving with hwedupbap.
- Prepare a platter of ingredients for hwedupbap:
- Cut a medium size carrot into julienne strips and put it into a small bowl.
- Sprinkle a few pinches of sugar and salt into the carrot strips. Mix it and set it aside.
- Slice some lettuce (2-3 cups) thinly and put it on the platter.
- Slice ½ cucumber thinly (1 cup) and put it next to the lettuce on the platter.
- Put the carrot on the platter after squeezing slightly to remove excessive liquid.
- Slice 5-7 sesame leaves thinly and put it on the platter.
- Make “cho jang” (hot spicy sauce):
- Mix 3 tbs hot pepper paste, 1 tbs soy sauce, 2 tbs vinegar, and 1 tbs sugar in a bowl using a spoon.
- Add 1 chopped green onion, 3 cloves garlic, and 2 ts of juice from minced ginger. Mix well.
- Dice raw fish into 0.5-1 cm cubes.
Tip: raw fish kept in the fridge should be cut just before serving - In a large serving bowl, put 1-2 cups of warm rice.
- Put the sliced lettuce, cucumber, carrot, raw fish, and fish roe on the rice in this order.
- Drizzle sesame oil generously over top with and put some roasted strips of kim. Sprinkle some
sesame seeds too. - Serve it with the soup.
Tip: How to cut kim thinly:
Roast a sheet of sea plant over stove directly by turning over both sides and cut it into thin strips with scissors
For vegetarians:
You can make “spicy tofu bibimbap” using this same recipe, but of course you will have to replace raw fish with fried tofu.
How to prepare for your tofu:
- Heat up your pan and add a little vegetable oil.
- Dice tofu into 1.5 cm cubes and put them into the pan. Cook until golden brown.
- Turn the heat off and add 1 ts of soy sauce and 1 ts of sugar. Stir it to coat.
Tip: Tofu is fragile, so I usually shake my pan carefully to mix it with sugar and soy sauce instead of using a spoon.















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