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Gimbap

Gimbap is a popular snack or lunch dish in Korea. Its primary ingredients are gim (sheets of dried seaweed) and bap (rice).

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Ingredients

  • Yellow pickled daikon radish
  • Spinach
  • Salt
  • Sesame oil
  • Sesame seeds
  • Carrots
  • Ground pepper
  • Vegetable oil
  • Eggs
  • Steamed short-grain or sushi rice
  • Gim seaweed
  • Tuna, ham, sausage, or any other kind of cooked meat

Instructions

  1. 1
    Slice radish lengthwise, about 1 cm thick.
  2. 2
    Boil water and add spinach. Boil for about 10 seconds, then drain it.
  3. 3
    Rinse the spinach with cold water, and squeeze all the water out. Season with salt, sesame oil, and sesame seeds.
  4. 4
    Shred carrots about 2 inches (5 cm) long. Stir-fry it with salt, pepper, and vegetable oil. You don’t have to cook it all the way through.
  5. 5
    Crack about 4–5 eggs into a little bowl. Mix well, and season with salt and pepper. Transfer beaten eggs to a hot greased skillet, and cook like an omelet until it is solid. Cut lengthwise, about 1 cm thick.
  6. 6
    Mix rice, 2 tbsp of oil, and sesame seed together.
  7. 7
    Place the mat on a flat surface and place a sheet of seaweed on top. Spread a layer of seasoned rice on top of the seaweed, and arrange the eggs, carrots, spinach, radish, and meat on top of that in long strips.
  8. 8
    Use the bamboo mat to tightly roll everything up, with the fillings on the inside and the seaweed on the outside.
  9. 9
    If desired, slice the roll into rounds.
Category
Side Dishes
Cuisine
Korean

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