My wife is from Korea and this is one of her favourite quick and easy dinners. The great thing is that it only has a handful of ingredients, and it can be cooked really quickly. 

SPAM, SPAM, SPAM

I want to preface something about this recipe, and that's the usage of SPAM. I know that to a lot of people the idea of SPAM is not popular (at least in Australia), but trust me - it is really great when cooked/used in recipes. If you are really adamant about not including SPAM, you can substitute in pork mince (but make sure you cook it properly, I would do this as part of step 2 in that case).

Ingredients

• Garlic minced, 4-5 cloves minced

• Kimchi (3 cups), cut into medium bite sized pieces. (Tip: retain juice for cooking!)

• SPAM, 1-2 cups, cut into small cubes. (substitute = pork mince)

• Rice, cooked, 2.5 cups (Tip: if you have left over or day-old rice, that always makes for better fried rice).

• Rice Oil, 4 Tbs

• Olive Oil, 2 Tbs

• Sesame Oil, 2 Tbs

• Salt, to taste

• Egg (per person/serving), fried, as garnish.

Method

    1. Cut up all the ingredients (kimchi, SPAM), and have kimchi in a bowl cut up into 2-3 cm pieces. 

    2. In a large pan, heat rice oil over medium heat, add in Garlic mince. Cook garlic (without burning/browning) for 1-2 min.

(NB: if you are substituting in pork mince instead of SPAM, then this is when I would cook the pork mince)

    3. Lower heat and add in kimchi, then bring heat up to medium. Allow to cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally.

    4. Add in SPAM and stir. Once mixed, let it sit & cook on medium heat for 2 minutes then stir & flip so SPAM is being cooked. Continue cooking like this for 5 minutes.

5. Add in rice (approx 2.5 cups). The idea is to have more kimchi to rice, so the ratio is like Kimchi:Rice = 3:2 (it doesn't need to precise, just as long as its more kimchi than rice). 

    6. Stir, and then allow it all to cook on medium heat for 2 minutes without touching. This allows the bottom to become crispy / well cooked. After 2 minutes, stir and try to flip the stop rice mixture to the bottom where the pan is (to maximise crispiness).

    7. Add Salt to taste. Start with 1 Tbs at first, stir and taste.

    8. Add in Sesame Oil, approx 2 Tbs.  stir and taste. (when using Sesame oil, less is more. Add small amounts and taste)

    9. At this point you can take it off the heat (simply turn off the heat) and commence making the fried egg on top. Fry an egg in olive oil, over low-medium heat. As it is frying, at a pinch of salt on the egg yolk as it cooks.

    10. Serve with fried egg on top.

Enjoy! 

Let me know if you make this and how it turns out!