Monday, 6 April 2015

First time making Kimbap!

Hi! Today I am going to start this post with a little guessing game:) Can you guess what I am going to make with these colourful ingredients?

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Ta-da! It's another Korean dish called Kimbap! I really like this dish/snack because of how colourful it is. For those who does not know what kim-bap (김밥) is, it literally translate to "dried seaweed- rice". It is actually Korean Style Sushi, a very popular and affordable dish/snack in South Korea. For those who is not a big fan of sashimi, you can try this as an alternative to Japanese sushi.

You will need:
(2-3 servings)

3-4 strips of yellow radish
1 carrot
3-4 strips of cucumbers
3 eggs
mince pork (size of your fist)
4 bowls of rice
3-4 sheets of dried seaweed
sesame oil
salt
soy sauce
sugar
corn starch

Steps: 

1. Wash the rice twice and cook it in the rice cooker. 
2. Prepare the ingredients. First, marinate the mince meat with sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and corn starch. 
3. Then beat up the three eggs, and pour it into frying pan, let it fill the bottom of your prying pan, and then fold it into half when the eggs are half cooked. 
4. Peel the carrots. Cut the carrots, cucumbers, yellow radish, and egg omelette into strips.
5. Fry the meat with a little oil.
6. Now that you have all the ingredients ready and when the rice is done. Here comes the fun part:P
7. Just before we start, mix the rice with 3 teaspoons of sesame oil and sprinkle some salt. Let the rice cool down a little bit till it's warm.
8. Lay on a flat surface a sheet of dried seaweed, then add a thin layer of rice that covers the entire surface of the seaweed. then put one strip of all the ingredients and line the mince meat there as well. (The picture below shows the layout, but I suggest to have the pork close to the other ingredients, so the top part of the picture will have just the rice and will stick better)
9. Slowly roll it from the side with all the ingredients (ie start from bottom of picture) while squeezing it gently, with some pressure, but not too much that you break the seaweed.



10. Apply minimal sesame oil onto the surface of your sushi roll. Not only does it look better, giving a shinny effect, but also makes it easier when cut the roll into bite size pieces. And of course, sesame oil just makes the kim-bap taste even better!



You may have your kim-bap with soya sauce, or with yellow radish or kimchi.



This is my second attempt making kimbap, I used ham instead of minced pork.

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