Rice Dishes

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce

Name: Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 100 g Rice; 15 g Ground turmeric; 50 g Sweet potato; 300 g Chicken stock; 10 g Young garlic chives; 15 g Green chili, minced; 15 g Red chili, minced; 15 g Onion, minced; 15 g Fish sauce (eo-ganjang)

강황고구마밥

Golden rice cooked in turmeric chicken stock with diced sweet potato, served with a fresh sauce of fish sauce, chilies, onion and young chives. Letting the vegetables steep in the fish sauce brings out their own flavors so the sauce tastes less salty.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce

35mPrep

30mCook

2Servings

EasyLevel

🧺 Korean ingredients in this recipe

Korean Sweet Potato (Goguma)Purple-skinned, chestnut-sweet sweet potatoes for snacks and sweets
Garlic Chives (Buchu)Flat garlic chives for pancakes, kimchi and dumplings
Korean Chili PeppersFresh green and red chilies, from mild to Cheongyang
Jeotgal (Salted Shrimp & Fish Sauce)Salted, fermented seafood — Korea's umami seasoning 🛒 Shop on Amazon

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📘 Cooking basics for this recipe

How to Cook Korean Rice (Bap)Short-grain rice in a pot, a rice cooker or a pressure cooker, plus multigrain rice and nurungji

📝 Step-by-Step Instructions

Make the sauce with everything except the chives 30 minutes ahead.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce — step 1

Soak the rice 30 minutes ahead. Dice the sweet potato with its skin on and soak in cold water.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce — step 2

Dissolve the turmeric in the chicken stock, mix in the rice and sweet potato and cook.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce — step 3

Cut the chives into bite-sized pieces and add them to the sauce.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce — step 4

Serve the turmeric sweet potato rice with the sauce.

Turmeric Sweet Potato Rice with Chive Dipping Sauce — step 5

📊 Nutrition Facts (per serving)

251.1Calories (kcal)

54.1 gCarbs

4.3 gProtein

1.9 gFat

164.7 mgSodium

Nutrition values are taken from the original recipe data and are approximate.

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Source: adapted from the recipe database of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (Food Safety Korea), used under the Korea Open Government License (KOGL) Type 1. English translation and editing by coo K food.