Recipe: Tasty Bacon Kimchi Fried Rice

Bacon Kimchi Fried Rice. Welcome to Chow with Me, where Chowhound's executive editor Hana Asbrink shares all of the irresistible things she's cooking, eating, reading, buying, and more. Today: The kimchi fried rice with bacon that's brought immeasurable joy and comfort to her through the years. If there were ever a reliable comfort food to jolt me out of a mood or be the culinary equivalent of a big bear hug, it.

The mix of fatty, salty bacon with the spicy, acidic kimchi felt like a perfect way to dress up this leftover rice standard. I immediately thought of the Kogi truck's kimchi quesadilla, another slightly unhinged creation that's bold, spicy, and definitely not low-cal. Kimchi and Bacon…, you can't go wrong. You can cook Bacon Kimchi Fried Rice using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bacon Kimchi Fried Rice

1. You need of plates cooked white rice (leftover rice, put in the refrigerator for the night, is recommended).
2. It's of bacon, cut into small pieces.
3. Prepare of garlic, minced.
4. It's of kimchi, cut into small pieces.
5. You need of soy sauce.
6. You need of salt or to taste.
7. You need of ground white pepper or to taste.
8. It's of eggs.
9. It's of vegetable oil for frying eggs.

Especially if you throw them into fried rice. I have made Kimchi Bacon Fried Rice a long time ago and thought of updating the recipe. I tweaked to bring out more flavor of kimchi and to enjoy the crisp texture of salty bacon. Bacon & Kimchi Fried Rice is one of my go-to comfort foods.

Bacon Kimchi Fried Rice instructions

1. In a skillet, fry the bacon. Allow it to render and become crisp. Take it out of the wok and set aside. Discard the oil. Reserving 1 tbsp in the pan..
2. Saute garlic until fragrant..
3. Add the kimchi and it’s water..
4. Add the fried bacon. Stir well..
5. Add the white rice..
6. Season with soy sauce, salt, and ground pepper. Stir well. Adjust to taste. Remove from the heat. Place it on serving plates..
7. Fry the eggs according to your taste. Remove from the heat. Place them on top of fried rice. Serve immediately. Yum! 😋.

If you liked my Bacon & Kimchi Udon recipe you will also love this one as well. The sourness of the kimchi balances perfectly with the saltiness of the bacon. Keep tossing until all rice coated evenly with the delicious kimchi and bacon mix. Stir in the green onion and remove from the heat. Fry eggs as how you like and place top of kimchi fried rice.