Korean

Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl)

Name: Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 1/2 oz dried wakame (miyeok); 1/3 cup dried anchovies, large (for stock); 5 cups water; 1 tbsp sesame oil; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 garlic cloves; 2 cups short grain rice

Ji-eun @jieun_busan

Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl) is Korean home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Low sodium Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 oz dried wakame (miyeok)
1/3 cup dried anchovies, large (for stock)
5 cups water
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 garlic cloves
2 cups short grain rice

How to cook it

Cook the rice separately by your usual method and keep it warm.
Soak the dried wakame in cold water for 15 minutes, then drain and chop into bite-size pieces.
Simmer the dried anchovies in the measured water for 10 minutes, then strain and discard them.
Heat the sesame oil in a pot, stir-fry the wakame 2 minutes, then pour in the anchovy stock, soy sauce, and minced garlic.
Simmer 12 minutes, then ladle over a bowl of warm rice, a birthday-morning tradition eaten as one bowl.

Watch how to cook Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

미역국에 밥말아먹기 | Putting Rice into the Seaweed Soup Play the video

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl) carries gluten, soy, fish, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Fish	Yes	Beef Bibimbap
Sesame	Yes	Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 240 kcal
Protein: 4 g
Carbs: 44 g
Fat: 5 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 480 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Miyeok-guk with Rice (Seaweed Soup Rice Bowl) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.