K-RECIPE 2nd Menu

           Hello K-BAP followers, it’s S.Choi again. In the first K-RECIPE, the Korean spicy sauce for fired chicken was treated. In fact, I chose that recipe because that is one of the easiest recipes for Korean foods. I know that the first recipe could be useless for someone who really wanted the recipes of original Korean dishes. So, I finally decided to post a real and the most important food in Korean food culture. Yes, that’s right. As some of you are expecting, the 2^nd menu for K-RECIPE is ‘BAP’.

          Traditionally, Koreans had used iron pot for cooking ‘bap’. However, as time goes by, people started to think that using iron pot is too heavy to use it in every meal. So, the heavy iron pot has been developed to a high pressure rice cooker. If you use the high pressure rice cooker, it would be easier to make ‘bap’. But, buying that nice Korean rice cooker in U.S. is a somewhat waste of money; the cheapest one is being sold at its price of $ 370. Therefore, I am going to post the recipe of ‘bap’ using Japanese cheap rice cooker that is being sold in Wal-mart at its price of $ 120.

BAP (Serving 4 people)

Total time: 1 hr 20 minutes = Prep 45 minutes + Cook 35 minutes.

Ingredients: 2 cups of rice / Drinkable water

Cook Utensil: Cup / Japanese rice cooker

Directions

1)    Take 2 cups of rice out of the bag.

-         Usual mug cup would be perfect. If you have small cup from the rice cooker, you can use it. (The amount of rice should be kept)

2)    Put 2 cups of rice into the pot of the rice cooker.

-         You can pull the pot out of the rice cooker easily.

3)    Wash the rice in the pot only with water.

-        Rice is covered with its own powder. You should

      wash them if you want better tasting ‘Bap’.

-        Rice should be washed with hand, as you do the

      hand  laundry.

4)    Drain the milky water and repeat process 3 again.

5)    Put your hand on the flattened surface of rice. 

-      If your hand is bigger than the pot, you can bend

     your fingers a little.

-      Your palm should be placed right on the surface of  rice.

6)    Pour some clean water until it covers all of your fingers.

-      This is the most important process. If you don’t pour

   proper water, it will ruin the taste and texture of ‘Bap’.

7)    Put the pot into cooker

8)    Let the rice to be fully soaked.

9)    Push the Cook button.

-         It will take about 35 to 40 minutes.

10)             Enjoy your Korean ‘Bap’.