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Albap

"Korean fish roe rice"

By Jaedon Lee, April 10, 2025

Albap

ingredients

  • Flying fish roe
  • Pickled radish
  • Perilla leaves
  • Radish sprouts
  • Kimchi
  • Oyster sauce
  • Minced garlic
  • Sugar

Trust me, Try it!

I’d been craving albap (rice with fish roe) for so long.

Couldn’t find a place that really hit the spot, but since I recently got a stone pot, I figured — why not try making it myself? It seemed pretty simple.

Ingredients

  • Flying fish roe
  • Pickled radish
  • Perilla leaves
  • Radish sprouts
  • Kimchi
  • Oyster sauce
  • Minced garlic
  • Sugar

How to make it

  1. Cut up the kimchi into small pieces, toss it in a pan with some oil, oyster sauce, sugar, and garlic — stir-fry it until it smells delish.

stir frying kimchi with oil, oyster sauce, sugar and garlic

stir-fried kimchi

  1. Dice up the pickled radish nice and small.

  2. Slice the perilla leaves into thin strips.

ingredients preps ready

  1. Brush a little sesame oil on the bottom of your dolsot and scoop in some rice.

adding sesame oil on the bottom of dolsot bowl

rice added to the dolsot bowl

  1. Add all your prepped toppings on top of the rice.

toppings added on top of the rice

  1. Got seaweed flakes? Throw those on too!

  2. Mix everything together over low heat, kind of like stir-frying it right in the pot.

This was totally my kind of fish roe rice — made with what I had on hand.

albap result

I forgot to grab crab sticks and seaweed flake, so I just went with the basics. It wasn’t perfect, but after craving it for so long? It totally hit the spot.

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