Fish Roe Bibimbap (Al Bap)
Inspired by Netflix's Culinary Class Wars: Al Bap or Fish Roe Bibimbap! A Korean rice bowl seasoned with a generous amount of salty, crunchy, pop-in-your-mouth Tobiko, Masago, or Salmon Caviar. Make a simple rice bowl more extravagant with fish eggs. So easy and so tasty!
Servings: 2
Calories: 589kcal
Equipment
- Large Tupperware container with lid
Ingredients
Soy Sauce Salmon
- 3/4 lb sashimi-grade salmon
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 Tbsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp Mirin *sweet cooking wine
- 1 Tbsp Instant Dashi Powder *Hondashi
- 1/2 sweet onion *thinly sliced
- 1/2 lemon *thinly sliced
- 1 chili pepper *minced
Al Bap
- 1 1/2 cup white rice *3/4 cup per serving
- 1/2 cup Fish Roe *Tobiko, Masago, or Salmon roe *1/4 cup per serving
- 1/4 cup Seaweed Salad
Instructions
Make soy sauce salmon
- Make soy sauce marinade. In a large Tupperware container, add soy sauce, water, sugar, mirin, Hondashi (instant dashi powder), thinly sliced sweet onion, thinly sliced lemon, and minced chilli pepper. Mix with a spoon until the sugar is dissolved.
- Add salmon. Thinly slice sashimi-grade salmon into 1/8-inch slices. Add it to the soy sauce marinade, making sure the salmon pieces are entirely submerged. Cover and marinate in the firdge for 1-2 hours and up to 24 hours.
Assemble bowls
- Make Al Bap. Add rice to bowl. Cover half of the rice bowl with several slices of salmon, fanned out on top of each other. Add a generous spoonful of fish eggs to the other half of the rice bowl. *Add a few drops of fresh lemon juice on top of the fish eggs and salmon.* Top with a small mound of seaweed salad on top.
- Serve. Serve with a package of seaweed snack (Gim) and a spoon. Eat immediately and enjoy!
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Notes
Tips:
- Fish Roe freezes well. Store leftover fish roe in the freezer.
- Serve with Miso Soup. To make it a complete meal, serve with Homemade Miso Soup.
- Serve with Seaweed Snack (Gim). Crumble an entire package of Gim on top. Or serve on the side and enjoy every bite of rice with a thin sheet of nori.
- Add lemon juice. Add a few drops of lemon juice right before serving to brighten the taste of fish roe.
Nutrition
Calories: 589kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 55g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 315mg | Sodium: 1893mg | Potassium: 1276mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 467IU | Vitamin C: 59mg | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 3mg