Korean Seafood Scorched Rice Soup
Quick answer
- Total time
- 45 min
- Level
- Medium
- Servings
- 2 servings
- Ingredients
- 11
About this dish
Hard scorched rice dropped into hot seafood broth starts out crisp, turns chewy, and if left a while longer softens into something like porridge.
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It goes into each bowl at the table rather than into the pot, and how long you wait decides which version you eat.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Devein 120 g shrimp with a slit along the back; peel 100 g squid and cut into bite-size pieces.
- 2
Julienne 80 g onion, quarter 120 g bok choy, and scrub 120 g mussels clean with a brush.
- 3
Boil water in a pot with garlic, onion, and mussels over medium heat for 5 minutes to extract seafood stock; open mussels indicate the stock is ready.
- 4
Add shrimp and squid; season with oyster sauce, salt, and pepper.
Cook over medium heat for 4 minutes until seafood is cooked through.
- 5
Add bok choy and cook just 1 more minute until leaves remain colorful green, then remove from heat.
- 6
Add 120 g scorched rice directly to the hot broth bowl just before eating; enjoy while some crispy bits remain.
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