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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