Healthy Rice

Basic Jap Gok Bop

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    5 cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Korean Home Cooking: Classic and Modern Recipes

By Sohui Kim

Published 2018

  • About

In Korea rice is the staple. Traditionally everyone gets their own bowl of rice, and they put a few bites of banchan or meat or fish on top of it. (The size of that bowl has decreased over the years, with carb-conscious eating.) Many Koreans, especially older ones, would tell you they don’t feel like they’ve really eaten until they have rice. And when I was growing up, pearly white rice still signified wealth: If you had white rice, you were a fat cat. In the country, they ate a mix