My stomach already make a "noisy" thing right now because I'm getting hungry after looking all this pictures. OMG~it's really tasty....Help!! Anybody can make or buy Gimbap for me? I want to taste it.
Reposted and Pictures from TWSSG Team:
Gimbap or Kimbap is a popular korean fast food made from steamed white rice (bap) and various other ingredients, rolled in gim (sheets of dried seaweed) and sreved warm in bite-size slices. Gimbap is often eaten during picnics or outdoor events, or as a light lunch, served with danmuji or kimchi. It is similar, but not identical, to makizushi, one of the many variants of the Japanese rice-based dish sushi.
The basic components of gimbap are rice, meat or other protein-rich ingredient, and a large variety of vegetables, pickled, roasted, or fresh, Traditionally, the rice is seasoned with salt and sesame oil/perilla oil. Popular protein ingredients are fish cake, crab meat, eggs, and/or seasoned beef rib-eye. Vegetables usually include cucumbers, spinach, carrots, and danmuji (pickled radish). After the gimbap has been rooled and sliced, it is typically served with danmuji.
Short grain white rice is usually used, although short-grain brown rice, like olive oil grain on gim, is now becoming more widespread among the health-conscious. Rarely, sweet rice is mixed in gimbap rice. Nowadays, kimbap's rice is many kind of black rice, boiled rice and cereals etc.
Gim is dried, pressed seaweed made from an edible species, laver. Gim may be roasted and seasoned with oil and salt, roasted but unseasoned, or raw and unseasoned. The oil used for roasting gim is traditionally sesame oil; however, today, corn and canola oils are also commonly used, especially with the pre-seasoned packs gim sold widely in stores. Olive oil is also becoming more prevalent, For gimbap, the roasted, unseasoned variation is typically used.
Besides the common ingredients listed above, some varieties may include cheese, spicy cooked squid, kimchi, luncheon meat or spicy tuna. The gim may be brushed with sesame oil or sprinkled with sesame seeds. In a variation, sliced pieces of gimbap may be lightly fried with egg coasting.
Samgak gimbap is a triangle-shaped gimbap sold in many convenience stores in South Korea. It is derived from Japanese triangle-shaped rice ball "Onigiri" which was introduced in Japanese convenience stores in South Korea in recent years. Samgak gimbap come in many varieties also.
