๐Ÿณ Easy Korean Kimchi Fried Rice (๊น€์น˜๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ)

Kimchi fried rice is one of the most iconic Korean comfort foods โ€” spicy, savory, and deeply satisfying.
Even if youโ€™re outside Korea, you can easily make it with a jar of kimchi from your local Korean or Asian grocery store.
Once you try it, youโ€™ll see why itโ€™s such a staple in Korean homes.

๊น€์น˜๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ํ•œ ๋ผ ์‹์‚ฌ๋กœ, ๋งต๊ณ  ์งญ์กฐ๋ฆ„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊นŠ์€ ๋ง›์ด ๋‚˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹์ด์—์š”.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ ํ•œ์ธ๋งˆํŠธ๋‚˜ ์•„์‹œ์•ˆ ๋งˆํŠธ์—์„œ ๊น€์น˜๋งŒ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์™œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.


๐Ÿง„ Ingredients / ์žฌ๋ฃŒ

  • 1 bowl cooked rice (preferably cold)
    โ€ƒ๋ฐฅ 1๊ณต๊ธฐ (์ฐฌ๋ฐฅ ์ถ”์ฒœ)
  • 1 cup well-fermented kimchi, chopped
    โ€ƒ์ž˜ ์ต์€ ๊น€์น˜ 1์ปต (์ž˜๊ฒŒ ์ฌ ๊ฒƒ)
  • ยผ onion, chopped
    โ€ƒ์–‘ํŒŒ ยผ๊ฐœ (๋‹ค์ง„ ๊ฒƒ)
  • 1 green onion, chopped
    โ€ƒ๋Œ€ํŒŒ 1๋Œ€ (์†ก์†ก ์ฌ ๊ฒƒ)
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
    โ€ƒ๊ฐ„์žฅ 1ํฐ์ˆ 
  • ยฝ tbsp gochugaru (optional, for spice)
    โ€ƒ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ ยฝํฐ์ˆ  (์„ ํƒ)
  • ยฝ tsp sugar
    โ€ƒ์„คํƒ• ์•ฝ๊ฐ„
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
    โ€ƒ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ 1ํฐ์ˆ 
  • 1 egg (fried for topping)
    โ€ƒ๊ณ„๋ž€ 1๊ฐœ (ํ›„๋ผ์ด์šฉ)

๐Ÿ’ก Ingredient Tip:
If you canโ€™t find gochugaru (Korean chili flakes), use a small pinch of cayenne or paprika instead.
๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ์นด์ด์—”ํŽ˜ํผ๋‚˜ ํŒŒํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•ด๋„ ์ข‹์•„์š”.


๐Ÿณ Instructions / ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•

1๏ธโƒฃ Heat oil and stir-fry kimchi & onion.
Add 1 tbsp oil to a pan and stir-fry chopped kimchi and onion for 3โ€“4 minutes.
์‹์šฉ์œ ๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊น€์น˜์™€ ์–‘ํŒŒ๋ฅผ 3~4๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋ณถ์•„์š”.

2๏ธโƒฃ Add seasonings.
Add soy sauce, gochugaru, and sugar. Stir well to mix.
๊ฐ„์žฅ, ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ, ์„คํƒ•์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ์„ž์–ด์š”.

3๏ธโƒฃ Add rice and combine.
Add the rice and stir-fry until evenly coated and hot.
๋ฐฅ์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์ž˜ ์„ž์ด๋„๋ก ๋ณถ์•„์š”.

4๏ธโƒฃ Finish with sesame oil & fried egg.
Drizzle sesame oil and top with a fried egg before serving.
์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์— ๊ณ„๋ž€ํ›„๋ผ์ด๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ ค ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐ŸงŠ Storage / ๋ณด๊ด€๋ฒ•

  • Let it cool completely before storing in an airtight container.
    ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์‹ํžŒ ํ›„ ๋ฐ€ํ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ด์•„์š”.
  • Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
    ๋ƒ‰์žฅ ๋ณด๊ด€์€ 2์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.
  • Reheat in a pan over medium heat for the best taste.
    ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ „ ํŒฌ์— ์‚ด์ง ๋ณถ์•„์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ง› ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿฅฆ Nutrition / ์˜์–‘ ์ •๋ณด

Kimchi fried rice is a balanced meal โ€” carbs from rice, probiotics from kimchi, and protein from the egg.
Itโ€™s light but filling, and supports healthy digestion.

๊น€์น˜๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ์€ ๋ฐฅ์˜ ํƒ„์ˆ˜ํ™”๋ฌผ, ๊น€์น˜์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ๊ท , ๊ณ„๋ž€์˜ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ์ด ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ํ•œ ๋ผ์˜ˆ์š”.
์†์ด ํŽธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋“ ๋“ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ’ก Cooking Tips / ์š”๋ฆฌ ๊ฟ€ํŒ

  • Use cold rice so it doesnโ€™t get sticky.
    ์ฐฌ๋ฐฅ์„ ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์•Œ์ด ํผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
  • Add a spoon of kimchi juice for deeper flavor and color.
    ๊น€์น˜ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ํ•œ ์ˆŸ๊ฐ€๋ฝ์œผ๋กœ ํ’๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
  • Want it spicier? Add a bit of hot sauce or extra gochugaru.
    ๋งค์šด๋ง›์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•ซ์†Œ์Šค๋‚˜ ๊ณ ์ถง๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋„ฃ์–ด๋„ ์ข‹์•„์š”.
  • It’s also delicious with a sprinkle of mozzarella cheese on top.

๋ชจ์งœ๋ ๋ผ ์น˜์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๊น€์น˜๋ณถ์Œ๋ฐฅ ์œ„์— ๋ฟŒ๋ ค๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.


โš ๏ธ Things to Watch / ์ฃผ์˜ํ•  ์ 

  • Donโ€™t use too much kimchi juice โ€” it can make the rice soggy.
    ๊น€์น˜ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์ด ๋ˆ…๋ˆ…ํ•ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
  • Avoid high heat for too long. It can burn easily.
    ๋ถˆ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์„ธ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐฅ์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ํƒˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๐Ÿ›’ Where to Buy Korean Ingredients in the U.S.

(๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹์ž์žฌ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜๊ธฐ)

Finding Korean ingredients is easier than ever in the U.S.
You can shop at a local Korean market or order online.

๐Ÿฌ Korean Grocery Stores (ํ•œ์ธ๋งˆํŠธ)

H Mart is the largest Korean grocery chain.
You might also find Zion Market, Lotte Plaza, or Galleria Market depending on your state.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ H๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฌ๊ณ ,
์ง€์—ญ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž์ด์˜จ๋งˆ์ผ“, ๋กฏ๋ฐํ”„๋ผ์ž, ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๋งˆ์ผ“๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๐Ÿ’ก Tip: Search โ€œKorean market near meโ€ on Google Maps โ€”
youโ€™ll often find small local stores selling fresh kimchi and side dishes.
๊ตฌ๊ธ€๋งต์—์„œ โ€œKorean market near meโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋ฉด
์ง์ ‘ ๋‹ด๊ทผ ๊น€์น˜๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜์ฐฌ์„ ํŒŒ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ๋งˆํŠธ๋„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๐Ÿ’ป Online Stores (์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ)

If thereโ€™s 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

๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋‹ค์Œ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”:

hmart.com โ€“ H๋งˆํŠธ ๊ณต์‹๋ชฐ

seoulmills.com โ€“ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•œ์‹ ์†Œ์Šค

์•„๋งˆ์กด Korean grocery โ€“ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์š”.


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.

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