Recipe · Mains and snacks
Chili oil fried eggs in 5 minutes
Gochugaru in hot oil turns red in seconds. Fry eggs in it, spoon the oil over the whites, and you have crisp, red-edged eggs for rice or toast.
Ingredients
Eggs
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
- 1 tsp to 1 tbsp Taekyung gochugaru, flake
- 1 garlic clove, sliced thin (optional)
- 1 scallion, sliced, white and green parts apart
- 2 eggs
- A pinch of salt
- 1 tsp soy sauce (optional)
To serve
- Rice or toast
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Method
Warm the oil
Warm the oil in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat. Add the garlic and the white part of the scallion and cook for 1 minute.
Bloom the gochugaru
Stir in the gochugaru and let it sizzle for 15 to 20 seconds, until the oil turns red. Don't let it go dark: it turns bitter.
Fry the eggs
Crack in the eggs and turn the heat to medium. Fry them for 2 to 3 minutes, spooning the red oil over the whites, until the edges are crisp and the yolks still run.
Serve
Sprinkle on the salt, the soy sauce and the green scallion. Slide the eggs over rice or toast, oil and all.
How much?
1 teaspoon of gochugaru makes it warm; 1 tablespoon makes it hot and very red.
Over rice
Put the eggs on kimchi fried rice for a full dinner.
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