How to Make Perfect Kimbap (Korean seaweed rice rolls)

Kimbap (Korean seaweed rice rolls). Gimbap (or kimbap) is the most popular on-the-go meal in Korea! Learn how to make classic gimbap at home with my step-by-step guide! Gim is dried sheets of seaweed, and bap means rice.

Bite sized little rice and vegetable goodies are savory, nutty and delicious! Kimbap, one of Korea's most popular snacks, can have all sorts of fillings; this very classic version is a great place to start. One of the biggest challenges for the first-time kimbap maker is finding all of the ingredients. You can have Kimbap (Korean seaweed rice rolls) using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kimbap (Korean seaweed rice rolls)

1. You need 2.5 cups of cooked rice.
2. It's 2 tbsp of sesame oil.
3. It's 2 tbsp of toasted sesame seeds.
4. You need 2.5 tsp of salt.
5. You need 1 of cucumber.
6. Prepare 1 of carrot.
7. You need 5 of long slices of pickled radish.
8. You need 5 of long slices of luncheon meat/ham.
9. Prepare 5 of perilla leaves (optional).
10. You need 3 of large eggs.
11. It's 2 sheets of fish cake.
12. Prepare 5 of dried seaweed sheets.
13. It's 3 tbsp of olive oil.

The pickled daikon (danmuji in Korean) can come as a whole pickled radish that needs to. Today Mommy Oh shows us how to make Kimbap (Korean Seaweed Rolls). The main ingredients include unseasoned seaweed sheets and short grain white rice. Kimbap are Korean rice rolls that look a lot like sushi.

Kimbap (Korean seaweed rice rolls) step by step

1. Cut the carrot into small pieces. Oil the pan with 1 tbsp olive oil on medium heat, and lightly sauté the carrots..
2. Oil the pan with another tbsp of olive oil. Beat the eggs and make a flat omelette on the pan..
3. Oil the pan with another tbsp of olive oil. Cut the fish cake into thin, one-inch strips and lightly sauté them..
4. Slice the cucumber, pickled radish, eggs, and luncheon meat/ham into thin strips as shown below. Cut the perilla leaves in half, if using..
5. Add sesame oil, sesame seeds, and salt to the cooked rice and mix thoroughly..
6. Wrap a bamboo mat or a sheet of aluminum foil with a plastic wrap, and place a sheet of seaweed laver on top of the mat. Spread about 1/2 cup of rice evenly on the sheet, and lay all the ingredients at the bottom half of the sheet..
7. As if rolling a sleeping bag, carefully roll it up starting from the bottom, tucking the ingredients into the roll as you go. When a roll has been formed, squeeze gently for it to hold shape..
8. Slice it into bite-sized rolls. Enjoy!.

This recipe shows how to make kimbap with Kimbap—also known as gimbap—are Korean rice rolls that might look a lot like sushi but in truth are Kimbap (from gim, a type of seaweed, and bap the Korean term for "rice") is easy, portable. Kimbap is Korean Seaweed Rice Roll that is made with seasoned rice and various veggies and meat that's rolled in dried seaweed (kim). Ingredients for Korean Kimbap or Gimbap Roll (Rice rolled in dried seaweed). The hardest part about kimbap is making the roll. It will take a few tries to perfect it.