Sometimes my viewers ask what kind of food I feed to my boys. Some moms tell me that they have difficulty getting their children to eat because they are picky eaters. I can understand how the moms feel. Moms want to make sure that kids eat well and grow up healthy. Recently, I met a mom with a son and her son only eats to eat rice and meat, but no vegetables. She asked me for advice or ideas. I wanted to come up with a good way to feed kids vegetables, and this is what I got: Seafood Rice Jeon. It is called “해물 밥전 (HaeMul BapJeon)” in Korean. Haemul means seafood and bap means cooked rice and jean is a Korean pancake. Instead of using flour, this recipe uses cooked rice for the batter. The jeon has various vegetables and seafood for great flavor. So in this simple food, you can get most of the nutrients that you need for your meal. Isn’t that cool? Also, because it doesn’t have flour, this can be an exciting recipe for people who can’t eat gluten. It is very delicious and easy to make. I’m happy to share this recipe with you today. Please try it someday. 🙂
Yield: 4 Pieces (8 Inch)
Short Korean Lesson
- EongDeongI (엉덩이) = Hip
- HeoBeokJi (허벅지) = Thigh
Video Instructions
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Cooked Short Grain Rice
- 2 Eggs
- ⅓ Cup Squid (6 Rings)
- ¼ Cup Shrimps (8 Medium Size)
- ¼ Cup Onion
- ¼ Cup Zucchini
- 2 Tbsp Green Onion
- 2 Tbsp Carrot
- 1 Tbsp Red Hot Pepper
- ¼ Generous tsp Salt
- Some Cooking Oil
Directions
Obtain ¼ cup onion, ¼ cup zucchini, 2 Tbsp green onion, 2 Tbsp carrot, and 1 Tbsp red hot pepper.
Cut all the vegetables into little pieces.
Obtain ⅓ cup worth of squid (6 rings) and ¼ cup worth of shrimp (8 medium size shrimps).
Chop the seafood ingredients into small chunks. The seafood will be bigger than vegetables.
Break 2 eggs and whisk them in a mixing bowl.
Add 1 cup of cooked short grain rice, all the chopped vegetables, the seafood, and ¼ generous tsp of salt into the egg.
Mix everything well.
Preheat an 8 inch nonstick pan with ½ Tbsp of cooking oil. Then put 2-3 spoonful of the mixture in the heated pan.
Spread the mixture with a spoon gently to form a nice circle. Fry it for about 3 minutes for one side on medium-high.
3 minutes later, flip it over and fry for another 3 minutes, or until golden brown.
With all the colors from the vegetables and eggs, it looks nice and appetizing. I hope your kids learn to love vegetables from this food. If you try this for your kids or yourself, please let me know how you like it. Good luck. 🙂
Love your recipes! Where did you get your chopping board ? I would like to buy one
Thanks
Hi Linda,
Yes, I love my cutting board too. I got it from amazon. Here is a link for you. 🙂
https://www.amazon.com/Seville-Classics-Bamboo-Cutting-Removable/dp/B001DNZI6O/ref=sr_1_15?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1479393694&sr=1-15&keywords=cutting+board
Will definitely try making this for my picky eaters. Thank you for this awesome recipe.
hi Sue,
You are welcome. Thanks a lot. 🙂
Hello Aeri,
Nice to meet you… I find your blog and recipes very useful 🙂
I will definitely try this as I have a very picky daughter 😀
My family and I really like Korean cuisine and cooking them are quite challenging because we are Asian family living in europe, so I there are not many reference that are authentic and I’m glad to find your website 🙂
Keep writing and God bless you 🙂
hi Pauline,
Nice to meet you too. I hope your daughter loves it too. I also hope you can try many delicious Korean recipes through my channel. thanks
Hi Aeri, love your blog 🙂 Can I ask a question? I tried the recipe but in a bigger volume since I have a big family to feed… sadly my pancake didn’t stick together in the frypan… I did use the short grain rice but I am wondering if it’s because I didn’t use enough eggs? In the end, it turned out as a delicious fried rice still but would apperciate your thoughts as to why it might not have stuck 🙂
hi Faith,
If your jeon stuck together well, actually I can think different cases.. first thing I can think is.. somehow your batter might be too runny.. Yes, egg does help to make the jeon stick together well..but if the batter is too runny, it will not stick together.. that case.. it’s better to make the batter a little more thick consitency.. another thing I can think is.. you might chopped your vegetable and seafood ingredients a little too big for jeon ?? When all the ingreidents has similar and small size.. the jeon can stick better. I hope it helps you.
Hi
Loved this recipe, very simple, but so tasty
could i add beef or pork instead of the seafood is that still traditional
hi Heath Ince,
Yes, you can use other meat..but I recommend to season the meat if you do.. since land meat is not as savory as the seafood just itself.. maybe you can use bulgogi sauce to marinate the beef or pork.. thanks
I tried to cook those tonight and at beginning tripled ingredients:) however, I experienced some issues turning them over, what I completely fixed by adding 4 table spoons of flour (it also reduced time of cooking).
Got much bigger pile of pancakes, than expected, but it’s fine: they taste so good, that even no sauce needed.
For seafood I took 1 can of minced clams and chopped shrimps.
Great job, Asa.
🙂 Yes, I love it very much too. Happy to hear your successful experience. Please try more recipes of mine and let us know. 🙂