Toasted White Sesame Seeds (Large)

Enjoy Hwayo Soju 25 chilled for a refreshing alternative to sake or vodka. Soju is a Korean rice spirit, and Hwayo is one of the best-known distillers of premium soju. Their Soju 25 has a crisp and clean taste, with subtle notes of fruity melon.

For years soju has been known as a fairly weak beverage, made from the diluted spirits of sweet potatoes or rice and added sugar. Hwayo are one of the small distilleries that are popping up all over Korea that aim to bring back the sophisticated sojus of the past, and create a spirit to rival the finest sakes or vodkas of the world.

The Hwayo distillery only uses the finest organic rice and pure spring water drawn from 150 metres underground. Their low-temperature distillation and maturing processes have been handed down over a period of 700 years with little change, and Hwayo’s Soju 25 is praised for its pure, clean taste that is the result.

Ingredients: water, rice, koji.

25% ABV. This product contains alcohol and is only available for purchase by over 18s.

Dolsot bibimbap is a Korean rice dish, served in a searingly hot stone bowl – the ‘dolsot’. The dolsot bowl should be slowly brought up to heat in an oven, while the sticky, sushi rice is cooking on the hob. To make bibimbap, sesame oil is heated inside the dolsot bowl, and then the cooked rice is heaped in – so that it starts frying in the sesame oil. Traditional bibimbap is then topped with vegetables, a raw egg yolk and gochujang chilli paste. It’s stirred through at the table – so the egg yolk and rice cook in the heat from the stone dish, and the vegetables stay piping hot.

This bibimbap kit contains a recipe card, and enough ingredients to cook our traditional Korean bi bim bap recipe 12-18 times. It contains an authentic Korean dolsot stone bowl, sesame oil, gochujang paste and delicious sushi rice. All you need is a few vegetables to stir fry, and an egg to crack on the top – a great store cupboard supper!

Additional dolsot stone bowls are sold separately. Just add one or more, if you'd like the kit to serve more people.

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• Spicy cucumber salad - finely slice cucumber and toss in little kimchee base along with spring onion.
• This is a great example of Japanese fusion comfort cooking: Cabbage, processed cheese & egg with kimchi! Slice a small Chinese cabbage and stir fry for a couple of minutes. Add a slice of processed cheese cut into 1cm squares a lightly beaten egg. Stir until the egg is lightly set.  Drizzle over the kimchee base to taste.