Spicy Fish Cake Gimbap Recipe (Easy Korean Rolled Rice)

This spicy fish cake gimbap is one of those snacks that you just can’t stop eating. It’s bold, savory, a little spicy, and so satisfying. All you need are a few simple ingredients like fish cake, eggs, and well-fermented kimchi.

Roll everything together, slice, and get ready to fall in love.

Ingredients (3 servings)

Main Ingredients

• Cooked rice: 2 bowls

• Fish cake (sliced): 5 sheets

• Chili peppers: 4 (seeded and minced)

• Eggs: 4

• Fermented kimchi: 200 g (cut into long strips)

• Seaweed sheets for gimbap: 3

• Cooking oil: as needed

• Sesame oil: 1 tbsp

Egg Seasoning

• Sugar: ½ tbsp

• Salt: 1 tsp

• Rice vinegar: 1 tbsp

• Water: ¼ cup

Fish Cake Sauce

• Soy sauce: 2 tbsp

• Chili flakes: 2 tbsp

• Minced garlic: 1 tbsp

• Oligosyrup (or your sweetener): 2 tbsp

• Water: 3 tbsp

• Sesame oil: ½ tbsp

Kimchi Seasoning

• Chili flakes: 1 tbsp

• Kimchi liquid: 3 tbsp

• Water: ½ cup

• Oligosyrup: 1 tbsp

Rice Seasoning

• Salt: 2 pinches

• Sesame oil: 1 tbsp

• Toasted sesame seeds: a little

Instructions

Step 1. Prep the ingredients

Slice the fish cake into thin strips.
Cut the chili peppers in half, remove the seeds, and mince them.

Step 2. Mix the sauces

In another bowl, whisk the eggs with the egg seasoning.

Step 3. Make the egg strips

Heat a pan with a little oil and pour in the egg mixture.

Cook into a thin omelet, let it cool slightly, then slice into thin strips.

Step 4. Stir-fry the kimchi

In a heated pan with a little oil, add the sliced kimchi and kimchi seasoning.

Stir-fry until the liquid reduces and the flavor deepens.

Step 5. Cook the fish cake

Heat a pan with oil, add the sliced fish cake, and start stir-frying.

Pour in the fish cake sauce and add the minced chili peppers.

Cook until the sauce coats the fish cake well.

Finish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds.

Step 6. Season the rice

In a large bowl, mix the warm rice with salt, sesame oil, and sesame seeds.

Step 7. Roll the gimbap

Place a sheet of seaweed on a mat.

Spread a thin layer of rice.

Add the cooked fish cake, stir-fried kimchi, and egg strips.

Roll tightly from the bottom up.

(You can add pickled radish or extra veggies if you like.)

Step 8. Finish and serve

Brush sesame oil over the outside of the roll.

Slice into bite-sized pieces and enjoy.

Enjoy your Spicy Fish Cake Gimbap (Eomuk Gimbap)