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Sanchae-bibimbap

Sanchae-bibimbap (Wild Green Bibimbap) · 산채비빔밥

Difficulty: Medium
Time to plan: 60 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This wild-greens-style bibimbap combines prepared chwinamul, gondre, fernbrake and bellflower root with rice. Its ingredients are processed cooking greens, not instructions to use plants gathered from the wild.

Season the greens separately to keep control of their individual salt levels. Compare a lightly dressed spoonful with a fully mixed one; when eating out, also ask about broth, seafood seasoning and egg.

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Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Blanched chwinamul (aster greens)	1 handful	Spinach
Boiled gondre (thistle greens)	1 handful	Chard or kale
Soaked fernbrake	1 handful	Julienned shiitake
Bellflower root	1 handful	Julienned burdock
Zucchini and carrot	1/3 each	Anywhere
Gochujang, sesame oil, sesame	To taste	Online Korean grocers
Cooked rice	2 bowls	Barley rice suits it even better
Egg (optional)	2	Fried, or skip

Step by step

1.Dress each green separately
Season chwinamul and gondre with soup soy and perilla oil; fernbrake and bellflower root with salt and sesame oil, each in its own bowl.
2.Saute the vegetables
Julienne zucchini and carrot, salt lightly, and saute each briefly.
3.Mix the sauce
Stir gochujang with sesame oil, a touch of plum syrup, and sesame seeds.
4.Arrange in sections
Bowl the rice, arrange greens and vegetables in color-matched sections, and crown the center with sauce.
5.Mix and serve
Add a swirl of sesame oil and fold gently so the grains stay whole.

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Buil Sikdang

Jinbu, Pyeongchang, Gangwon

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Yujeong Sikdang

Woljeongsa entrance, Pyeongchang, Gangwon

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The fictional face of this dish

Wood element · a slender, elongated face

You set the table with whatever the mountain offers each season. A face as fresh and unadorned as wild greens themselves.

Upright: As the mountain offers different greens each season, what has come to you now is what suits you now. Set down out-of-season wants and mix today's harvest.

Reversed: Gomchwi, aster, thistle, vine shoots: throw them all in without knowing one name and that is not sanchae, that is a jumble. Re-label the things you have started. Only when you know each taste do you earn the right to mix.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

Those brows stretch dark and clean like mountain ridges. In face reading the brows are the forest, and where forest thrives, greens sprout: your life yields a harvest every season. That is sanchae bibimbap, child. Gomchwi in spring, aster in summer, mushrooms in fall; receive what the mountain gives and mix it, and it is all medicine. Your luck too arrives in a different face each season, so stop crying after last season's greens.

Eyes clear as a valley stream: eyes that cannot deceive and will not be deceived. A wild-greens seller must be exactly that, for the conscience of the trade is refusing to sell greenhouse sprouts as mountain-picked. That conscience is stamped on your face, so a swindler's life was never your fate. Instead, people take your word without a scale, and that, child, is your capital.

That mouth purses firm: a mouth that knows seasoning. Sanchae bibimbap is not rice drowned in gochujang; it is mixed while keeping each green's separate scent alive. You handle people the same way, seasoning differently for each one. But keep tasting for everyone else and your own bowl never gets mixed. Today, serve your own portion first.

Wild greens are not planted; they spring up. Do not force-plant your luck either. Learn to spot where it grows wild. With just the diligence to climb the mountain each season, your table will never run dry.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Mountain greens and lotus-leaf fragrance grew up in the same temple yard and raise each other at the table, while next to the ham and sausages of budae-jjigae, the scent of wild greens gets trampled under army boots.