If you’ve been watching my videos for a while, you’ve probably seen me eating purple rice. Sometimes dark purple, or sometimes lavender, it has a beautiful color and stands out on any table.

It’s Korean multigrain rice, called japgokbap in Korean. It’s a pretty simple recipe and there are many variations to it, and I will make it differently depending on my mood, but today I’m going to show you a version that is reliably beautiful and delicious.

This recipe is also in my cookbook, but in this version I add peas. They’re optional, but they look really pretty to me. You can add your favorite fresh beans if you like.

If you have an electric pressure cooker this rice is really easy to make: you just add everything to the cooker and let it do the work. But of course not everyone has one of those cookers, or sometimes they just want to make it the old fashioned way, in a thick-bottomed pot.

Enjoy the recipe and have some fluffy, beautiful, multigrain rice!

Ingredients (4 servings)

Directions: