[Easy Cooking] How to Make Delicious Kimbap with Basic Ingredients—Perfect for People Living Alone

Kimbap Made with Easy-to-Find Ingredients

Kimbap is a dish made by placing rice and various ingredients on a sheet of seaweed and rolling it up. The rice may be seasoned with salt alone, or sushi rice may be made by sprinkling it with a seasoned vinegar mixture of salt, sugar, vinegar and other ingredients. Kimbap typically contains pickled radish, fish cake, egg, beef, spinach and carrots. The ingredients commonly used in kimbap are generally easy to find. Kimbap is often packed in lunchboxes for picnics or outings, or eaten as a snack.

Various Types of Kimbap

Recently, many varieties of kimbap have been made with ingredients such as cheese, tuna and kimchi. Different types are also distinguished by their shape, including triangular kimbap, Kkomi kimbap made small enough for a young child to eat in one bite, and nude kimbap with the rice on the outside. Chungmu kimbap, which contains no other fillings and is eaten with radish kimchi and seasoned squid, is so famous that it has become a regional symbol. Among the many varieties, tuna kimbap made with tuna mayonnaise is the most popular.

How to Make Kimbap

Ingredients: seaweed sheets, rice, ham, imitation crab sticks, egg, pickled radish, cucumber, carrot, sesame oil and salt

1. Julienne the carrot, then season it with salt and stir-fry it in an oiled frying pan.
2. Trim and julienne the cucumber.
3. Julienne the ham and cook it in a frying pan.
4. Lightly season the egg with salt and cook it into a thin sheet. Roll it up, then cut it into long strips.
5. Spread the rice over a sheet of seaweed, add the prepared ingredients and roll it up.
6. Brush sesame oil over the rolled kimbap.

[FAM Times=Reporter Kim Hyun-wook]