8/7/06 | Leftovers: Kimchi Fried Rice
[ Currently Eating: Raw Ginger. For Stomach Issues. ]
Hello Cheap Eaters. I haven’t had much time to post because I’ve actually been painting the house. But anyhow, here’s a pic of some leftovers I saved from awhile back. This is Kimchi Fried Rice… yep. That’s fried rice with kimchi (also: kimchee or gimchi, feel free to read up if you haven’t had it before) thrown into it.
It’s quite nice and spicy, and flavorful as well. I usually have to add a bunch of flavoring from soy sauce, fish sauce and salt when making fried rice, but kimchi has all the flavor built in. The fried rice pictured also has chicken, mushrooms and eggs in it. You can control the amount of spiciness (and tanginess) of the fried rice by the amount of kimchi and the liquid you also add in. One thing, I like my fried rice sort of wet… almost like a pilaf. If you don’t, you may want to add less of the liquid and maybe enhance it with some other chili peppers to up the heat.
August 8th, 2006 at 11:50 am
i am not familiar with kimchi so i did a google search. it seems there are lots of different variations of kimchi. cabbage, red pepper and seafood seem to be the most used ingredients. did you make your own? it sounds interesting.
August 9th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
The picture contains cabbage, which is the most common type of kimchi. I have also used canned tuna instead of chicken, which you might like if you’re into seafood.
August 9th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
jim - the kind I buy in the grocery store and the kind at Korean restaurants near me have mostly cabbage, with secondary things being turnip or daikon, and then sometimes seafood. It’s very much like sauerkraut, but with whole leaves and very spicy and fermented.
hj - oh, tuna sounds very interesting. Never tried it in fried rice. But there is an interesting “salad” we have a lot that has tuna, tofu, soy and other sauces, green onion, lettuce, and we throw things like Kimchi in it sometimes.
August 9th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Can you make an RSS feed please?
August 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
edwin - i think you emailed me also.. not sure what you mean, I’ve been using the standard rss feed from wordpress since forever. Do you mean, why is it on “summarize”? It’s that way because I don’t like the feed aggregators that take full post content w/out giving credit…
August 10th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I cant cook at all any chance of a recipie for this ??
October 5th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Ooohwee, that sounds delicious. I am going to try that out tomorrow. Thanks!
December 10th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I have a version of kimchi fried rice using turkey leftovers. Let me know what you think.