This sushi bowl is a very healthy dish composed of fresh vegetables and raw tilapia sashimi also known as "izumi dai" in Japanese. A substitute for tilapia would be red snapper, tuna, yellow tail, or other whitish or reddish colored fish, but probably not salmon. Also a little touch of flying fish roe known as "tobiko" adds extra freshness and vibrance to the dish. When I go to a Korean restaurant or a casual Korean restaurant, I often get this dish when I crave for something fresh. I think a dish similar to this is probably also available at Japanese restaurant but not with the sweet and spicy dressing to mix the bowl with. I don't know the origin of this dish. Apparently, both Koreans and Japanese eat raw fish and due to the fact that overall flavor of this dish is more Korean and how it resembles "bibimbap", I would say that this dish is 100% Korean. But yeah, there are many gray areas between Korean and Japanese food when it comes to certain types of food. Anyways, this dish is something you might want to try because it's yummy.
Ingredients: tilapia fillet, mixed garden vegetables, alfalfa sprouts, tobiko (flying fish roe), carrot, cucumber, dried nori strips, toasted sesame seeds
Spicy dressing ingredients: Korean red pepper paste (2 tablespoons), sesame seeds (1 teaspoon), apple juice (1 tablespoon), vinegar (1 teaspoon), soy sauce (1 teaspoon), sugar (2 teaspoons)
Refer to this direction on my other page but forget garlic, sesame oil, and red pepper powder mentioned on that page for our purpose. Sesame oil will be added separately later.
1. The easy step would be to prepare a bowl of rice first.
2. Then prepare vegetables. Peel and slice carrots, cucumbers, and wash the mixed green vegetables.
3. spread out the greens on top of the rice in the bowl.
4. Place sliced carrots, cucumbers, and alfalfa sprouts.
5. Cut the tilapia sashimi fillet and place them on your bowl.
6. Add a spoonful of tobiko.
7. Add a final touch of dried nori strips and toasted sesame seeds.
Add the spicy dressing. I add a lot of them. Also add a table spoon of sesame oil. It helps the flavor and mixing.
Totally destroy it! Enjoy.
14 comments:
Hi Peter, I like your Hwe Dup Bap very much, my Korean colleague has made me once but with salmon because we could not get other fish so easily esp we have just arrived the foreign country not long. Your dish reminded me of our dinner together but now we hardly can meet up because of her busy schedules. I would love to try our the spicy sauce, as I craved for Korean and spicy food a lot recently : )
That Hwe Dup Bap your friend made for you must've been good that you're craving it now. :) This dish is so easy to make. You'll just whip one out in 5 minutes if you have all the ingredients. Yeah the spicy dressing very helpful. Notice it is a little different from the other one. I try now to use more people friendly dressing minus the garlic. ^^
Looks nice and yummy ... but it seems so hard to prepare ...Any new recipes ?
Any sushi recipe?
Check out the "Japanese" section for sushi recipes. :)
Hi Peter, sorry I just saw your comment today. Of course you can add my blog to your link and I am going to add yours to mine too :)
Hey thanks! I just added your link!
Hi Peter, I love your blog with all the step-by-step instructions you included. You make me crave for Korean food right now.
I'll be back for more, definitely!
hi peter,i love your recipes!!!like you, i am also a student. your recipes just made my diet more varied in so many ways. cheers :D
Hey I'm glad my blog helped! Bon appetite and stay healthy!
I just stumbled onto your blog while looking for things to do with this frozen Tilapia fillet I found at the local international store for super cheap. Can't wait to try this!
I made this last night and it came out wonderful. I was feeling really lazy and used Sriracha instead of making the sauce. It came out good, but probably not as awesome as it could have been. I'll have to actually make that sauce next time.
Use FLUKE or some other fish... I've never even heard of hwedukbap(NOT SUSHI!!!!!!! WTF.) made with tilapia. If you even that in my presence I would use my taekwondo skills to axe kick you in your face. I'm not kidding.
Perhaps calling it “Hwe Bowl” might be better as “sushi” is a Japanese term. More people do know sushi over hwe, but I think it’s good to stay true to the terminology so that people don’t confuse the two.
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