Bim Bim Bap with Cauliflower Rice

I have great memories as a child sitting in a Korean BBQ house. The sizzling fresh meat, silky tofu soup, and crunchy assorted pickled vegetables. Can you stay nostalgia? In efforts to keep my childhood foods in my life, I have crafted a guilt free recipe for the infamous Bim Bim Bap! For those of you who are not familiar with this dish, its of Korean origin and is essentially a rice bowl. The trick it to cook the rice in a clay pot so the rice sticking to the clay turns into crispy rice (all of my asians know how coveted crunchy rice is). The rice bowl is then filled with pickled veggie like kimchi, cucumbers, bean sprouts etc. korean marinated beef, and topped with an ooey gooey sunny side up egg. Please check out my Bim Bim Bap made with cauliflower rice! :) 

Bim Bim Bap with Cauliflower Rice

Bim Bim Bap with Cauliflower Rice

Recipe makes 2 servings

Prep Time: 20 minutes * Cook Time: 10-15

Ingredients:

• Trader Joe's Marinated Kalbi Beef (I cheated here and went with store marinated beef since I was pretty busy this week)
• 1/2 head of cauliflower
• 1 cup crimini mushrooms
• 1 stalk of green onion
• 1 large egg
• 1 cucumber
• 1 carrot
• 1/4 cup rice vinegar
• 1/8 cup of agave nectar
• 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
• Olive oil for cooking

Instructions:

• Take cauliflower, and pulse in a food processor until it looks like little bits of rice. Once completely pulsed, set aside in a bowl
• Julienne carrots and cucumbers (I got excited and used my vegetable spiralizer so make pretty veggie curls!!)
• In a separate bowl, combine rice vinegar, agave, and sesame oil. Whisk until combined and then add julienned veggies to the bowl. Let the mixture sit in the fridge for 10 minutes. This is what we call a "quick pickle"
• Slice up mushrooms and cook over medium heat until caramelized. Set aside
• Unwrap and portion out two serving sizes of the Trader Joe's packaged beef. Julienne the beef.
• In a pan, turn heat to medium-high and add olive oil. Once oil is hot add julienned beef to pan
• Cook on high heat for about 5 minutes until beef is caramelized. Once beef is done, set pan away from heat
• In a clean pan, turn to medium heat and add olive oil. Once oil is hot ad cauliflower rice and cook for about 4 minutes
• Once cauliflower rice is cooked, put in a bowl
• In the still warm pan, add more oil and crack the egg. You can cook the egg anyway you like, I prefer mine sunny side up so the yolk can get all in my food :)
• Once all ingredients are cooked, assemble the pickled veggies, mushroom, and beef into the bowl filled with cauliflower rice. Add egg on top. Garnish with chopped green onion

Enjoy!