Bibimbap Sauce

The sauce used for bibimbap is red pepper paste (고추장) based. There are various additions or ways you can enhance your red pepper paste-based sauce to make it your own.

• You can add just plain red pepper paste to the Bibimbap.
• You can add a watered-down and seasoned version of the red pepper paste sauce by adding a little water to make it thinner and then seasoning the paste with ingredients like garlic, green onion, sugar, or sesame oil.
• Another option is to simply stir fry the red pepper paste before topping it onto your Bibimbap.
• Finally, you can stir fry the red pepper paste with some aromatic ingredients like garlic, green onion, and or a ground meat protein like pork or beef and use that as the sauce.

As you can see, you can really go ham with your red pepper paste-based sauce.