Dinner · 15 min · 2 bowls
Kimchi fried rice
The leftover-rice reason kimchi exists in the fridge.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 15 min
easyWhy tonight. The leftover-rice reason kimchi exists in the fridge.
What it needs
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- kimchi
- rice
- eggs
- scallion
- sesame oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: nori.
Method
- Hot pan, cold leftover rice, chopped kimchi and a little of its brine.
- Push aside, scramble eggs, then sesame oil and scallion.
- It should smell fermented and toasted, not steamed. A fried egg on top if you have one more.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- kimchi
- Sour, spicy and funky, and older is better for cooking.
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- scallion
- Two ingredients on one stalk.
- sesame oil
- A seasoning, not a cooking oil.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
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The ten-minute floor of this whole library. A soft egg, hot rice, soy and sesame, and it is better than most things that take an hour.
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Kimchi butter eggs
Chop the kimchi. Butter tames it.
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Leftover rice egg soup
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Ham fried rice
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Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.