Korean recipes:
Raw fish with rice and vegetables (hwedupbap)
Hwedupbap is one of my favorite dishes. I looove raw fish (sashimi in Japanese)!
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 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.
Maangchi, thank you for posting this video! This recipe looks delicious & so healthy… I can’t wait to try to cook it sometime this week :o)
Do you refrigerate your hot pepper paste? I buy the same brand as you, but I can’t read the labels on the packaging. I keep it in the refrigerator just in case :o)
August 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pmkaren,
August 18th, 2008 at 9:25 pmwow, you are fast! Thank you! My video is still in the process of uploading on YouTube. Yes, I keep hot pepper paste in the refrigerator after opening it. You did good job! : )
Thanks for the video Maangchi. I love watching Dae Jang Geum drama and now Mashinun Chonghon. Your website is fabulous because you take the time to show us really how to make the delicious food. I’ve made many of your recipes already and can’t wait to try this one out.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pmOh my Maangchi, this looks so good! Your videos are always very helpful and nicely done. You are a culinary artist! Now I am hungry. =p Thanks again for your service.
=]
August 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pmThis made me hungry lol
no more food before bed…
Can I use chicken,beef broth or vegetable broth instead of anchovies?
August 19th, 2008 at 2:49 amJennifer,
August 19th, 2008 at 4:41 amyes, you can use beef broth or chicken broth.
Hi Maangchi,
I just made the vegetarian version of Hwedupbap - and the taste was absolutely amazing!!! I’m going to have it again tomorrow.
My family enjoyed it very much. My youngest daughter can’t eat spicy food well, so I just put soy sauce with lots of sesame oil and she ate the whole thing! What a great way to sneak in healthy vegetables in your diet. Thank you so much!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pmGabieolie,
Wow, fast! Your successful tofu bibimbap news will encourage many people to try it out with confidence.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:56 pmThank you!
I’m eating and typing comment at the same time!!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pmI know it’s gross but I can’t wait to thank you for sharing this amazing recipe. It’s definitely one of those that make a veggie-hater like me crave for some green. Sooooooo fresh and tasty!
Hey Maangchi! I just moved to Busan and I have a few food questions. I keep going to Lotte and eating these rice cakes that are cut up into cubes and covered in kong garu. They are so good! They are my favorite. What are they called? And is it easy to make them? It seems easy. Just make the rice dough and boil it, right?
What is sweet rice flour called in Korean?
And what is ì§�ì�´ì±�? It\’s a banchan that I just bought at the grocery store, but I can\’t find it in any dictionary.
I discovered that I looooove ì��ê·¼ banchan! You should do a video for it! It\’s so delicious!
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 amAmi,
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 amhaha, multitask! No, it’s never gross. : )
Ooooops!! This is me running to put my hot pepper paste in the refrigerator. Duh!!!!!! Or should I just throw it out if it’s been open a while?(and I bought the large container.)Please let me know what you think.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pmMizzGriz,
August 26th, 2008 at 9:19 pmHot pepper paste is fermented food, so it will be ok. Put it back into the refrigerator. Don’t worry!
is it ok to omit the fish roe here?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:48 amcan u eat this without the soup accompaniment?
i cant find anchovies at the moment…
Mari,
September 8th, 2008 at 9:51 amYes, you can omit fish roe in this recipe
and of course you can eat it without the soup. : )
thanks! i just made this today. it was good. and refreshing. :)s
September 10th, 2008 at 1:25 amHi Maangchi. Fish is not vegetarian. Please, you should take all fish, seafood, etc dishes out of the vegetarian category. Also, dishes with fish sauce, fish eggs, should not be in a vegetarian category. It is hard to be Korean and vegetarian!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:56 amCindy Choi,
Good point! Thank you for giving me chance to talk about this.
I know you are talking about Hwedupbap(raw fish with vegetbles dish) and some vegetable dishes using fish sauce.
Take a look at the recipe more closely, I posted the recipe for vegetarians by using tofu. All of my vegetarian friends love the recipe, so I posted. Fish sauce could be replaced with salt or soy sauce.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:06 amI was wondering for the tuna and salmon…are they 1/2 lbs each? It looks so yummy!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 pmJen,
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 pmI don’t remember what pound it was. It was actually more than enough. Delicious!
My mom used to add thinly sliced nashi pear in it and that makes sweet and cool, especially in summer…
October 12th, 2008 at 8:07 amcan i use white vinegar in making sauce???
November 6th, 2008 at 2:09 amI already have tuna so I’m planning to try this tonight…
myla,
November 6th, 2008 at 7:44 amyes, you can use white vinegar, too.
I made both versions- vegetarian and the other with raw fish and roe- OMG, they were so delious and satisfying. Maangchi you really know your craft.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pmChi,
November 10th, 2008 at 8:26 pmWonderful! Thank you very much!
hi maangchi! i love this recipe!
December 8th, 2008 at 5:20 amjust one question..is it safe to eat the raw fish straight like that?
Yvonne,
December 8th, 2008 at 12:06 pmyes, no problem. Get sashimi grade fish when you go to a fish market.