Bacon and kimchi fried rice
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Serves 4
Salty bacon combines with spicy, tangy kimchi to make this easy midweek fried rice. Top with a fried egg and some chilli sauce and you are good to go.
In November 2023, this recipe was costed at an average of 拢1.94 per portion when checking prices at four UK supermarkets. The recipe is designed to be made in conjunction with a low-cost store-cupboard.
Ingredients
- bacon: 6 rashers streaky smoked bacon, cut into 1cm/陆in wide strips
- kimchi: 100驳/3陆辞锄 kimchi, roughly chopped
- carrot: 1 large carrot, coarsely grated
- long-grain rice: 500g/1lb 2oz cooked long-grain rice (approx. 175g/6oz uncooked rice)
- dried chilli: 陆 tsp dried chilli flakes
- soy sauce: 1 tbsp soy sauce
- spring onions: bunch spring onions, thinly sliced
- vegetable oil: 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- eggs: 4 free-range eggs
- chilli sauce: chilli sauce, to serve
Method
Cook the bacon in a large frying pan until it starts to crisp. Stir in the kimchi and carrot and cook for 1 minute. Add the rice and continue to cook, stirring regularly until the rice is piping hot. Stir in the chilli flakes, soy sauce and most of the spring onions.
Divide the fried rice between four shallow bowls.
Wipe out the frying pan with kitchen paper, then heat the oil in the pan and quickly fry the eggs until done to your liking and place on top of the rice. Scatter over the remaining spring onions and serve with the chilli sauce.
Recipe tips
To make this recipe even easier you can use two packs of microwave rice instead of cooking rice.
