How to Make Tuna Kimbap

Serves: 2-3

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 15 mins

Ingredients needed to make Tuna Kimbap:

• 5-6 cups cooked rice
• 1 avocado, peeled and stoned
• 3 strips pickled yellow radish
• Several seaweed sheets
• One canned tuna
• 3 crabmeat strip
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp sugar, divided
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tsp green onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted
• 3 tsp sesame oil

Cooking instructions for Tuna Kimbap:

• For the sauce, whisk half of the sugar and the entire salt into vinegar until they dissolve completely.
• Empty the cups of cooked rice into a large mixing bowl and drizzle the above sauce over it.
• Give it a good stir to coat the rice well with the sauce and set aside until required.
• To cook the tuna,
• Drain the tuna into a hot skillet and add a lashing of sesame oil in it.
• Toss to coat well with the oil and stir fry over moderate heat for a couple of minutes.
• Add a splash of soy sauce into it and give it a nice stir along with the minced garlic, rest of the sugar and a dash of black pepper.
• Continue to sauté the tuna flakes for another couple of minutes, stirring often and remove from heat.
• Drizzle rest of the sesame oil over it and toss the tuna along with the green onion and sesame seed until they distribute evenly throughout the mixture.
• To assemble, spread a seaweed sheet across a bamboo mat and spoon a portion of the rice onto it.
• Spread the rice across the sheet, pressing it at the same time, so that the rice sticks to it.
• Top it up with the cooked tuna and arrange a slice of avocado, a pickled yellow radish strip and piece of crabmeat, side by side.
• Roll the sheet tightly, with the help of the bamboo mat and unwrap it from the kimbap roll.
• Wipe a sharp knife with a damp cloth and cut it into slices, each about a couple of cms thick.
• Arrange them on a plate and use rest of the ingredients to make more kimbap rolls in a similar fashion.
• Serve with your favourite Asian dipping sauce.

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Last Updated on February 20, 2013 by