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Pyongyang Onban

Name: Pyongyang Onban
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: North Korea
Ingredients: 600g Cooked rice; 400g Chicken Thigh; 100g Mung beans, peeled and dried; 1/2 bag Bean sprouts; 4 Shiitake mushrooms; 2 Green Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 tbsp Soy Sauce; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp Sesame Oil; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1.5L Water

Rice

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Rice topped with chicken and mung bean pancake with hot chicken broth poured over — a Pyongyang regional dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pyongyang onban means 'warm rice' and is known as a Pyongyang regional dish. Rice in a bowl is topped with shredded chicken, mung bean pancake, and mushroom and bean sprout namul, and plenty of hot chicken broth is poured over. It's a bowl that warms you in the cold winter.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Pyongyang eatery in winter, rice, chicken, and mung bean pancake are arranged in a steaming bowl and hot broth is poured over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cooked rice 600g
Chicken Thigh 400g
Mung beans, peeled and dried 100g
Bean sprouts 1/2 bag
Shiitake mushrooms 4
Green Onion 2
Garlic 2 cloves
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sesame Oil 1 tbsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the mung beans in water for 3 hours, blend smooth with a little water, mix in a little salt, and cook into thin pancakes in a frying pan.
Simmer the water, chicken, and garlic for 40 minutes; remove and shred the chicken, and season the broth with soy sauce and salt.
Blanch the bean sprouts and slice and stir-fry the shiitake; dress each with sesame oil and salt.
Put rice in bowls and top with the chicken, sliced mung bean pancake, bean sprouts, and shiitake.
Pour over the hot broth and scatter with chopped green onion.

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