Step 1

Pour two cups of rice into the rice-cooker bowl. Throughly rinse and wash the rice. Let it sit in cold water for 30 minutes.

Step 2

Then drain the residual water from the rice again.

Step 3

Use the same cup and pour two cups of water into the rice-cooker bowl. Place bowl into rice-cooker and turn it on .

Step 4

Note: If you do not have a rice-cooker, cook rice on in a pot (read post)

Step 5

Let's start with the veggies: Cut off the ends from the cucumber. Cut cucumber into long strips (~1cm in width). Pour salt (1/2 teaspoon) and vinegar (1 teaspoon) over cucumber strips. Give a mix with your hands and let it rest for 10 minutes.

Step 6

Cut carrots into thin strips (0.5cm in width). Repeat the same salting (1/2 teaspoon) and vinegar process (1 teaspoon) for carrot strips.

Step 7

Then let's move over to the meats: Split the crab sticks in half with your hands.

Step 8

Take out a bowl and crack four eggs into it. Season the eggs with salt (1/2 teaspoon). Pour 1 teaspoon of water into the eggs. Mix eggs throughly and set aside for frying.

Step 9

Season minced beef with salt (1/2 teaspoon) and pepper. Take out the frying pan and cook the meat fully through.

Step 10

Pour out rice from the rice cooker into a large mixing bowl. Pour (1 teaspoon) of salt and (1 Tablespoon) vinegar over rice. Gently mix it into rice and let the rice cool down.

Step 11

Use a paper towel to squeeze out the extra moisture from cucumber.

Step 12

Place frying pan on medium heat. Put cucumber strips onto frying pan and cook briefly to remove moisture (roughly 10 seconds).

Step 13

Repeat the process above (step #2-for the carrot strips.

Step 14

Turn frying pan on a medium heat. Pour vegetable oil into frying pan. Pour egg mixture in and give the pan a swirl so it is evenly coated.

Step 15

Wait until the egg omelette is half-way cooked, then begin to roll the egg.

Step 16

Finish the first roll and move the egg omelette to the bottom of the pan. Pour more egg mixture into the other-side, tilt the pan and connect the two pieces. Roll again and repeat until you finish the egg mixture. (reference video below)

Step 17

Cut the finished egg roll into long strips. Halve the strips until you get roughly 1cm in width.

Step 18

Put a frying pan on medium heat. Wait until frying pan is hot. Place the gim (seaweed) sheet on the hot frying pan on each side for roughly 10 seconds. Repeat until sheets turn crispy and slightly green. Be careful not to burn them.

Step 19

Place gim on sushi mat. Check that the gim is close to the bottom of the sushi mat. Then pat down rice up to 3/4 of the gim sheet (or up to 1 inch from the top).

Step 20

Add the egg, carrot, cucumber, crab stick, beef and danmuji strips to the middle of the rice.

Step 21

Fold the kimbap (watch video for details).

Step 22

Use a brush to coat the gimbap with sesame oil. Cut the gimbap into circles.

Step 23

Take a picture and enjoy the fruits of your labor :)