Day-old rice fried in butter with kimchi, sausage and carrot, seasoned with chili paste and the kimchi’s own juice, then topped with a fried egg, sesame seeds and furikake.

Ingredients

For the fried rice

• Kimchi
• Neutral oil
• Sausage, diced
• Carrot, diced
• Green onion, whites chopped and greens thinly sliced lengthwise
• Garlic, minced
• Butter
• Day-old cooked rice
• Chili paste
• Salt
• Sesame oil

For serving

• Eggs
• Sesame seeds
• Furikake

Instructions

1. Snip the kimchi into smaller pieces with kitchen scissors, then drain it in a fine-mesh strainer, saving the juice.
2. Heat a little neutral oil in a skillet and cook the sausage, carrot and green onion whites.
3. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant.
4. Add the kimchi and sauté.
5. Push everything to the side of the pan, add the butter, then the rice.
6. Stir to combine, then add the chili paste, kimchi juice, salt and sesame oil.
7. Fry the eggs in a separate pan.
8. Plate the rice and top with a fried egg, the green onion greens, sesame seeds and furikake.

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