Korean
Ssalbap (Steamed White Rice)
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Ssalbap (Steamed White Rice) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Rinse the rice in cold water, swirling and draining, until the water runs mostly clear.
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Drain well and let it sit in the strainer for 10 minutes so the grains absorb a little moisture.
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Combine the rice and water in a heavy pot, cover, and bring to a boil.
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Lower the heat to a bare simmer and cook 12 minutes without lifting the lid.
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Turn off the heat and let it rest, covered, 10 minutes, then fluff with a rice paddle.
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Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ssalbap (Steamed White Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Ssalbap (Steamed White Rice) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| 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
- 200 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 44 g
- Fat
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 0 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ssalbap (Steamed White Rice) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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