MCO 3.0 Day 47: My 15 minutes lunch

Meal prep is my way to go for weekday meals while WFH. I will cook double portion for most of the food and use the 2^nd portion to cook something else.

For today’s lunch, I used Jaden’s kimchi fried rice and cooked Kimchi bap. This upgraded kimchi fried rice is toasted for a lightly crispy crust with chewy edge from melted cheese. Quick meal and it’s perfect for my 15 minutes lunch today.

Ingredients:

• Kimchi fried rice
• ½ cup of shredded Mozzarella cheese
• ½ cup of seaweed flakes
• Pinch of toasted sesame seed

Directions:

• Heat a fry pan on low heat.
• Spread kimchi rice evenly on the fry pan.

• Top the rice with mozzarella cheese.

• Cover with lid and let cheese melt for 3 minutes.

• Fold kimchi bap in half on a plate.

• Toast sesame seeds on top and eat with seaweed flakes

I was just in time for my 1pm meeting.

MCO 3.0 Day 45: Jaden and his very first Kimchi Fried Rice

Jaden has to do a cooking video for his school homework and asked me what he should cook. I asked him to cook his favourite Kimchi fried rice, something quite easy to cook too. He said OK and asked me if I may guide him, ie his idea of “Mother and Son bonding time”.

He is actually quite fussy, wanting to do a good job.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp (20g) cooking oil
• 1/2 cups (40g) green onions, finely chop
• Meat: 2 sausages (65g) sliced thinly. ham, bacon or pork belly
• 1/3 tbsp (3g) sugar
• 1/2 tbsp (5g) soy sauce
• 1 cup (160g) kimchi, cut into bite sizes
• ¼ cup kimchi juice or water
• 3 cups of steamed rice
• 2-3 tablespoons gochujang or 1/3 tbsp (3g) fine red pepper powder
• 3 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
• Seaweed flakes
• 1 tablespoon roasted sesame seeds
• Fried eggs

Directions:

1. Heat up a pan. Add the oil.
2. Stir-fry the green onion and meat.
3. When meats are golden, add soy sauce and keep frying.
4. When the moisture is gone, add kimchi and stir-fry over low heat.
5. Add kimchi juice or water if the seasonings are clumped.
6. Once the seasonings are thoroughly mixed, add instant rice and break it up with a ladle.
7. When the rice is all broken up, stir-fry over heat.
8. Add gochujang or red pepper powder.
9. Add sesame oil (signature ingredient in Korean food as seasoning and flavor enhancer)
10. Remove from the heat. Scoop kimchi fried rice onto a plate.
11. Sprinkle with chopped green onion, seaweed flake and sesame seeds.
12. Top with a fried egg for a simple but perfect meal!

He had his Kimchi fried rice for lunch and said “Hmmm …. this is actually quite nice”.