Source: Adapted from my friend Alli at Longbourn Farm
Ingredients:
1/2 lb ground beef
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tablespoon sesame oil
1 cup beef broth (or 1 cup water and 1 teaspoon beef bullion)
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons rice vinegar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 pinch (or shake) red pepper flakes
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 teaspoons cold water
Serve with:
hot cooked rice
sliced green onions
shredded carrots
cooked spinach
"egg pancake" (just shake up a few eggs and pour a bit into a small frying pan and cook it like a pancake then slice it up into strips)
diced cucumbers (my family is not the hugest fan of these so we haven't used them lately)
sesame seeds or everything seasoning
Directions:
Brown the beef, onion and garlic in a small saucepan. Drain the grease. In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, mix the sauce ingredients (sesame oil, broth, soy sauce, sugar, vinegars, ginger and red pepper flakes). Add sauce to meat mixture and bring to a simmer. Mix the cornstarch with the water in a small dish and then add to the sauce. Simmer until slightly thickened. Serve over hot cooked rice with toppings of your choice (you could think of it like a "Korean haystack"). (Don't forget to "mix it! Mix like crazy [. . .] for your bee-bim bop!")
Notes:
I'm back again with another Asian bowl dish (not noodles this time, but rice). We first were introduced to Bibimbap way back in 2015 (I believe) in the children's picture book Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park. Then, in 2019, I saw a recipe in the Friend Magazine and on my friend's blog around the same time. I figured it was time to give it a try. I used Alli's beef and sauce recipe and lots of the toppings from the Friend and the picture book. And everyone loved it! We have been making it ever since. I'm not saying it's authentic, but it's close enough for us. ;) What you see above is how I've tweaked it over the years. The jotted notes on a scratch paper in my recipe binder are getting hard to read, so it's about stinkin' time it made it to the ol' blog.
