Kimbap: My New Guilty Pleasure

It's no surprise that Koreans already invade our everyday lives: from telenovelas, fashion and even food. I recently went on a food court of an SM mall and saw a stall of Mr. Kimbob. Even before, I wish that some would come up with  Korean food on stalls like siomais on cart. The good thing about this is that they have a lot of choices and are affordable of course compared to authentic Korean restaurants. It's only Php70 for a whole platter or Php5 per piece! There are many versions of this dish alone so I had picked my favorite ingredients and I would like to do my own Kimbap at home so good luck to me!  


Gimbap or Kimbap as known in Korea is one of their popular dish which is made of  steamed rice (bap) and various ingredients rolled in a gim (sheets of dried laver seaweed) and cut in bite-size slices.

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Ingredients:
dried seaweed
immitation crab sticks ( 3 sticks )
egg ( 2 )
long grain rice or any sticky rice ( 1 cup )
vinegar ( 1 tbsp. )
mirin ( 4tbsp.)
ripe mango ( 2 thin flesh cut to long strips )
spam or any luncheon meat ( 3 pieces cut to long strips )
canola oil ( 1 tsp. )
pinch of sugar


Sauce:
light soy sauce ( 1 tbsp. )
sesame oil ( 1/4 tsp. )


1. Boil rice ( 1 cup water = 1 cup rice ) in a rice cooker. Place the steaming tray of the cooker and put the crab sticks to be steam with the rice.


2. Whisk egg and add 2 tbsp. mirin and add a pinch of sugar. Pour canola oil on a non-stick pan and make an omelet over medium heat. Let it cool then cut to long strips.


3. Mix the rest of the mirin ( 2 tbsp ) over cooked rice with the vinegar and carefully mix or fold. Let it cool.


4. Get a sushi mat on top of a chopping board and prepare the dried seaweed.


5.  Get a bowl of water to wet your hands so the rice wont stick to your hands. Spread a 1/3 cup of  rice on the dried seaweed and arrange the other ingredients on top.


6. Roll the bamboo/sushi mat over and gently push to compact the rice and other ingredients together.


7. Get a sharp and moistened knife and cut it into small rolls.


8. For the sauce, mix the light soy sauce and sesame oil.


Enjoy!
         
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