This is how I made my Out of the box rice Sandwich - my very first Samgak Kimbap.
One of those Oriental food I love the most is the Japanese' Onigirazu. It's their rice sandwiches. They come with different fillings. I had one a long time ago - with chicken bulgogi, one of my Korean students who have lived in Japan has made one for me. People have this impression that Koreans are miser - in my own experience, they are one of the most generous people on earth or perhaps, I have met most of the most generous ones.
Korea also has their own version of Onigirazu - it's called Samgak Kimbap and on my last year in the Philippines, one of my students gave me this mold for making one.
Last Thursday, I thought of using it for the first time, to make my sandwich out of the box. I needed a picture for this week's Steemit Culinary Theme announcement post. I didn't want to use bread so I thought of making my own Samgak Kimbap. The thing is - this is my first Samgak Kimbap and I just grabbed whatever was in the fridge that I would make it easy since I don't know how on earth one makes such. These were the ingredients and a teaspoon of traditional olive oil.
Here's how I did it. The Koreans and the Japanese probably have their own way but this was how I did it since I didn't have the luxury of time. I only had less than an hour free time.
Wash the vegetables.
Julienne the zucchini.
Cut into thin strips.
Do the same to the carrots.
Heat up a teaspoon of olive oil and throw in the carrots. Fry for 2 minutes - just half - cooked.
Pepper up the eggs. No, I didn't salt it because the cheese and the kimchi would provide enough taste to what I'm going to do. Too much salt is never healthy - it is fattening and could damage your kidney but if you like it tastier - go ahead and salt those eggs.
Fry the egg on the same oil you used with the carrots to avoid wasting it. Well, I'm using a ceramic pan - so it doesn't require much oil.
Let's cut it to the chase and proceed to making the ones with the cheese.
Take one sushi nori out of the package and lay on a plate.
Put the mold on top. That's the bigger triangular mold.
Spoon some rice in it. I used 1 table spoon.
Flatten the rice using the smaller part of the mold.
Add on the thin scrapes of cheese. I used the cheese scraper but you may also just slice your cheese however you want to.
Top it with the strips of carrots and arrange them neatly to fit in the mold. Cut some into shorter pieces.
Add the zucchini on top of the carrots.
Add the cheese on top of the zucchini.
Top with another tablespoon rice.
Flatten with the smaller part of the mold - Push hard.
Slowly pull the bigger mold while you're pushing the smaller part of it downwards. Pull the bigger part of the mold like how you would pull a loose tooth - tilting it to the sides till it comes loose.
Fold the sushi nori on one side. I brushed the edges with a bit of water to make it stick to the rice and to each other. Keep folding till you achieve a triangular form. I had a hard time at that part. By the way, cut the extras - it's essential not to make the cover too thick - a thick fried nori would feel like eating a seaweed flavor gummy bear - I experienced that experimenting on making cheese sticks with noris back before I joined Steemit.
There are 5 sushi noris in the pack and I made two with the cheese in it, one with kimchi filling and two without cheese using the same process.
I threw them back in the pan to reheat the rice and melt the cheese in it on low fire. High fire would make the nori explode.
The usual Samgak Kimbap nor the Onigirazu don't get fried but hub and I like warm food lunches so I did. Or that's called tweaking the recipe ;).
The technique in cutting them in half is to wet the knife.
Sink the tip of the knife on the base of the Samgak Kimbap.
Slide it diagonally and slice on a forward motion.
I just choose these 5 slices to present them to you. It was faster eating it than making it.
Enjoy !
I took all of these pictures with my Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 edition and made my own gif at makeagif.com