Korean Gimbap Sushi Ingredients

Series Summary

If we enjoy the beautiful simplicity of traditional Korean cuisine today, we have the royal Hangul court, the seat of the Korean monarchy, to thank. A steamed rice dish, infused with a hint of soy sauce, red chili paste, and sesame oil, blended with spicy kimchi and bulgogi and topped off with a fried egg—my friends, there’s no tastier dish on a soggy Tuesday afternoon, sitting around the table with friends.

Korean cuisine is largely rice-based, like many other Asian cuisines. One distinguishing characteristic, though, is the profusion of side dishes present in Korean cooking. In this free Korean food video series, learn how to make an easy recipe for gimbap, a dish almost like sushi—except that it often does not have a raw fish component. Our expert will show you step-by-step how to put this recipe together, including a list of ingredients, rice cooking tips, how to steam the spinach, how to cook the beef (bulgogi), how to slice vegetable ingredients, how to pack the nori, and how to roll and cut the gimbap dish. Enjoy a great snack or side dish: learn how to make this classic Korean recipe today!

Video Transcript

"In my house around the holidays we all sit with baby breath waiting for my aunt to come over with plate full of gimbap which is one of her specialties and that is what we are going to make today. Gimbap is much like a sushi roll without having any raw fish in it. It got a really interesting taste and the closes thing I can equated to in a Japanese scale would be Futomaki. It doesn't have to be vegetarian today we are going to make some with meat but it has a whole plus of ingredients that we should look at. One is the outer nori which is the wrapper, various vegetables go into it cucumbers, marinated spinach. What the Koreans called danmuji which is a dye pickled daikon radish and the Japanese called Takuan. We are going to make a special omelet that goes into the gimbap and we are going to put in some crab meat, crab meat right over here for a little extra flavor. The first step is going to be to make a nice pot of rice cause that is the essential ingredient to the gimbap. Okay let's get started."