Ggo ma kim bab (Mini roll)

This is one of the famous street food from Korea.
It contains almost nothing but rice and tiny bits of vegetables
but you can't resist wonderful smell of sesame oil
and perfect match of rice and veges after shopping.

6 cups cooked rice

rice seasoning : 2 tablespoons sesame oil

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon soy sauce

10 sheets kim (seaweed sheet, nori)

5 mini seafood sausage *

1/4 dan mu ji (pickled radish, yellow)

1/2 carrot

1/2 bunch spinach

spinach seasoning : 1 teaspoon sesame oil

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon soy sauce

sesame oil to cover the surface of kim

sesame seed to garnish

* This is about 4 inchs length 3/4 inch diameter fish paste sausage.
Ask for sausage for Kim bab at Korean grocery
or it can be substitute with any mild flavor sausage.

Cool rice slightly, add seasonings, mix lightly.
Blanch spinach, drain, squeeze well, mix with seasonings.
Cut carrot, radish and sausages into 1/8 inch thick strips.
Saute carrot with some salt.
Cut kim half in lengthwise.

Using bamboo roller, place kim, add rice leaving quarter inch on top.
Place several rice grain on top part, press so they work as a glue.
Add radish, spinach, sausage and carrot.
Roll carefully, seal with rice grain pressed flat to kim.