Hwedupbap 회덥밥, Korean raw fish on rice

As predicted the hot weather continues to torture the beautiful souls of Melbourne and the mercury reached 34.5 degrees C at 3.30pm. I did my shopping very early today, did some washing and headed for my local park. I picked up Small M from his school on my way and we had a little picnic under the big shady tree. We read our books and he fell asleep after talking about his school and my blog (he is a loyal follower of my blog) til M came to take him home. I decided I won't be complaining today after such a wonderful day, more importantly I have got everything in the fridge ready for tonight's dinner, the only thing required for cooking is the rice which will be taken care of by our robot look- alike rice cooker. Hwedupbap (meaning raw fish on rice) is a close cousin of bibimbap and if you are both a bibimbap and sushi lover this one is definately for you!!! There is no recipe as such; you just need to gather the freshest fish and vegetable you can lay your hands on, chuck everything in a bowl, drizzle with Korean spicy sauce and you are in business :) (of course the fish and vegetables need to be cleaned and cut nicely first) If you prefer the Japanese version (Chirashi) just omit the gojujang and drizzle some soy, rice vinegar and Japanese mayo instead. I think that's our dinner tomorrow night :)

P.S one of the tummy is away for work so if you are reading this I'll make it again when you get home!!

served 2 as a one dish meal;

250g of sashimi grade sword fish, thinly sliced

250g of sashimi grade ocean trout, thinly sliced

1 lebanese cucumber, sliced

5 sesame leaves, roughly sliced

2 carrot, peeled, thinly sliced

1/4 of daikon, thinly sliced

lettuce, roughly chopped

50g of snow pea sprout

2 cups of cooked Korean or Japanese rice, cooled

sesame seeds, toasted

black sesame seeds, toasted

finely shredded nori seaweed

dash of sesame oil

spicy Korean chili sauce 1

Prepared vegetables and herbs

Place cooled rice in a large bowl, drizzle with some sesame oil and both types of sesame seeds.

Arrange lettuce and shredded carrots neatly.

Follow by the rest of the vegetables.

Arrange the star of the dish neatly in the middle.

Finally drizzle both types of sesame seeds, spicy sauce and shredded nori over.

Now completely destroy all the prettiness and enjoy it with a cold beer or two. Korean crisis, what crisis???