Gluten-Free Kimchi Fried Rice

Gluten-Free & Fermented Recipes

Fried rice is the perfect weeknight home for two of the best things you can do for your gut — a live-culture ferment and cooled, resistant-starch rice — and it happens to be naturally gluten-free. This one comes together in one pan in about fifteen minutes.

Prep 15 min · Serves 2

Why this feeds your flora

Two gut-friendly moves are hiding in this bowl. First, kimchi is a live ferment carrying Lactobacillus and the tangy acids of fermentation — so stir most of it in at the very end, off the heat, to keep those cultures alive. Second, rice that has been cooked and then cooled overnight forms resistant starch: a fiber that skips digestion and feeds the bacteria in your colon, which ferment it into butyrate. Day-old rice isn't a shortcut here — it's the point.

Gluten-free & celiac notes

Naturally gluten-free — just swap soy sauce for certified gluten-free tamari, and if you have celiac disease check that your kimchi and tamari are labeled gluten-free (some contain wheat) and keep your pan and utensils free of cross-contact.

Ingredients

• 2 cups day-old cooked rice, cold from the fridge
• 1 cup chopped kimchi, plus 2 tbsp of its juice
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
• 1 tbsp certified gluten-free tamari
• 2 scallions, sliced
• 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
• Sesame seeds, to finish

How to make it

1. Heat 1 tsp of the sesame oil in a wide pan over medium-high. Add the beaten eggs, scramble softly, and set aside.
2. Add the remaining oil, then the ginger and the white parts of the scallions, and stir for 30 seconds until fragrant.
3. Add the cold rice and press it into the pan, letting it sit undisturbed for a minute or two so it crisps before you toss it.
4. Stir in most of the kimchi and its juice and the tamari, and heat through for another minute.
5. Take the pan off the heat. Fold the scrambled egg back in, along with a spoonful of the reserved raw kimchi to keep its cultures live.
6. Top with the scallion greens and sesame seeds, and serve warm.

The takeaway

Live cultures from the kimchi, resistant starch from the cooled rice, and not a trace of gluten — a fast, everyday bowl that feeds your flora. Rotate it with other ferments so your gut sees a variety of microbes.

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