Korean

Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice)

Name: Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 2 cups short grain rice; 8 sheets roasted seasoned seaweed snacks (gim); 1 tbsp sesame oil; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp sesame seeds

Seung-ho @seunghojang

Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice) is Korean home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups short grain rice
8 sheets roasted seasoned seaweed snacks (gim)
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame seeds

How to cook it

Cook the rice separately by your usual method and keep it warm, or use leftover rice.
Crumble the roasted seaweed sheets into small flakes with your hands.
Toss the warm rice with the seaweed flakes, sesame oil, soy sauce, and sesame seeds until evenly mixed.
Serve warm as a simple, humble bowl, a classic lunchbox and school-morning staple.

Watch how to cook Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice) carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Godeungeo-gui (Salt-Grilled Mackerel)
Fish	No
Sesame	Yes	Bossam (Boiled Pork Belly Wraps)
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 260 kcal
Protein: 6 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 290 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Gim-jaban-bap (Seaweed Rice) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.