
Kimchi fried rice is one of the most iconic Korean comfort foods โ spicy, savory, and deeply satisfying.
Even if youโre outside Korea, you can easily make it with a jar of kimchi from your local Korean or Asian grocery store.
Once you try it, youโll see why itโs such a staple in Korean homes.
๊น์น๋ณถ์๋ฐฅ์ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ํ ๋ผ ์์ฌ๋ก, ๋งต๊ณ ์งญ์กฐ๋ฆํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊น์ ๋ง์ด ๋๋ ์์์ด์์.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ํ์ธ๋งํธ๋ ์์์ ๋งํธ์์ ๊น์น๋ง ๊ตฌํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ ๋ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์๋์ง ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์์.
๐ง Ingredients / ์ฌ๋ฃ

- 1 bowl cooked rice (preferably cold)
โ๋ฐฅ 1๊ณต๊ธฐ (์ฐฌ๋ฐฅ ์ถ์ฒ)
- 1 cup well-fermented kimchi, chopped
โ์ ์ต์ ๊น์น 1์ปต (์๊ฒ ์ฌ ๊ฒ)
- ยผ onion, chopped
โ์ํ ยผ๊ฐ (๋ค์ง ๊ฒ)
- 1 green onion, chopped
โ๋ํ 1๋ (์ก์ก ์ฌ ๊ฒ)
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
โ๊ฐ์ฅ 1ํฐ์
- ยฝ tbsp gochugaru (optional, for spice)
โ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ ยฝํฐ์ (์ ํ)
- ยฝ tsp sugar
โ์คํ ์ฝ๊ฐ
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
โ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ 1ํฐ์
- 1 egg (fried for topping)
โ๊ณ๋ 1๊ฐ (ํ๋ผ์ด์ฉ)
๐ก Ingredient Tip:
If you canโt find gochugaru (Korean chili flakes), use a small pinch of cayenne or paprika instead.
๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ์นด์ด์ํํผ๋ ํํ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ก ๋์ฒดํด๋ ์ข์์.
๐ณ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ

1๏ธโฃ Heat oil and stir-fry kimchi & onion.
Add 1 tbsp oil to a pan and stir-fry chopped kimchi and onion for 3โ4 minutes.
์์ฉ์ ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฅด๊ณ ๊น์น์ ์ํ๋ฅผ 3~4๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ณถ์์.
2๏ธโฃ Add seasonings.
Add soy sauce, gochugaru, and sugar. Stir well to mix.
๊ฐ์ฅ, ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ, ์คํ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ์์ด์.
3๏ธโฃ Add rice and combine.
Add the rice and stir-fry until evenly coated and hot.
๋ฐฅ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ ์์ด๋๋ก ๋ณถ์์.
4๏ธโฃ Finish with sesame oil & fried egg.
Drizzle sesame oil and top with a fried egg before serving.
์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๊ณ๋ํ๋ผ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ค ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ง Storage / ๋ณด๊ด๋ฒ

- Let it cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
์์ ํ ์ํ ํ ๋ฐํ์ฉ๊ธฐ์ ๋ด์์.
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
๋์ฅ ๋ณด๊ด์ 2์ผ๊น์ง ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
- Reheat in a pan over medium heat for the best taste.
๋จน๊ธฐ ์ ํฌ์ ์ด์ง ๋ณถ์์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ฒ์ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ฅฆ Nutrition / ์์ ์ ๋ณด
Kimchi fried rice is a balanced meal โ carbs from rice, probiotics from kimchi, and protein from the egg.
Itโs light but filling, and supports healthy digestion.
๊น์น๋ณถ์๋ฐฅ์ ๋ฐฅ์ ํ์ํ๋ฌผ, ๊น์น์ ์ ์ฐ๊ท , ๊ณ๋์ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ด ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ๊ท ํ ์กํ ํ ๋ผ์์.
์์ด ํธํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ ๋ ํ๊ฒ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ์ฑ์์ค๋๋ค.
๐ก Cooking Tips / ์๋ฆฌ ๊ฟํ
- Use cold rice so it doesnโt get sticky.
์ฐฌ๋ฐฅ์ ์ฐ๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์์ด ํผ์ง์ง ์์์.
- Add a spoon of kimchi juice for deeper flavor and color.
๊น์น ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ํ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ํด๋ณด์ธ์.
- Want it spicier? Add a bit of hot sauce or extra gochugaru.
๋งค์ด๋ง์ ์ข์ํ๋ค๋ฉด ํซ์์ค๋ ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ฃ์ด๋ ์ข์์.
- It’s also delicious with a sprinkle of mozzarella cheese on top.
๋ชจ์ง๋ ๋ผ ์น์ฆ๋ฅผ ๊น์น๋ณถ์๋ฐฅ ์์ ๋ฟ๋ ค๋จน์ด๋ ๋ง์์ด์.
โ ๏ธ Things to Watch / ์ฃผ์ํ ์
- Donโt use too much kimchi juice โ it can make the rice soggy.
๊น์น ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์ด ๋ ๋ ํด์ง ์ ์์ด์.
- Avoid high heat for too long. It can burn easily.
๋ถ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ธ๊ฒ ํ๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์ด ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ํ ์ ์์ด์.
๐ Where to Buy Korean Ingredients in the U.S.
(๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ํ๊ตญ ์์์ฌ ๊ตฌ์ ํ๊ธฐ)

Finding Korean ingredients is easier than ever in the U.S.
You can shop at a local Korean market or order online.
๐ฌ Korean Grocery Stores (ํ์ธ๋งํธ)
H Mart is the largest Korean grocery chain.
You might also find Zion Market, Lotte Plaza, or Galleria Market depending on your state.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์ญ์์ H๋งํธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฌ๊ณ ,
์ง์ญ๋ง๋ค ์์ด์จ๋ง์ผ, ๋กฏ๋ฐํ๋ผ์, ๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ง์ผ๋ ์์ด์.
๐ก Tip: Search โKorean market near meโ on Google Maps โ
youโll often find small local stores selling fresh kimchi and side dishes.
๊ตฌ๊ธ๋งต์์ โKorean market near meโ๋ผ๊ณ ๊ฒ์ํ๋ฉด
์ง์ ๋ด๊ทผ ๊น์น๋ ๋ฐ์ฐฌ์ ํ๋ ์์ ๋งํธ๋ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์์ด์.
๐ป Online Stores (์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ผํ๋ชฐ)
If thereโs no store nearby, try these trusted sites:
hmart.com โ Official H Mart online shop
seoulmills.com โ Variety of sauces and snacks
Amazon (Korean grocery section) โ Easy for beginners
๊ทผ์ฒ์ ๋งํธ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํด๋ณด์ธ์:
hmart.com โ H๋งํธ ๊ณต์๋ชฐ
seoulmills.com โ ๋ค์ํ ํ์ ์์ค
์๋ง์กด Korean grocery โ ์ฒ์ ์๋ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฌ์์.

Buying a few Korean staples like kimchi, gochujang, or rice cakes once will go a long way โ
you can reuse them for dishes like bibimbap, tteokbokki, or Korean stews.