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Watermelon Gamtae Rice Ball
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A cute watermelon-shaped rice ball filled with pink rice and decorated with seaweed and cucumber.
00:30:00 total
Serves 3
easy
Sides / Appetizer
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Ingredients
- roasted gamtae seaweed - 1 sheet (1 sheet, crushed)
- nori seaweed - 1/2 sheet (1/2 sheet, cut into stripes)
- rice - 3 bowls (3 bowls, cooked)
- roe (myeongranjeot) - 1 piece (30g, for pink rice)
- black sesame - to taste (for decoration)
- salt - to taste (to taste)
- sesame oil - to taste (to taste)
- herb stems - to taste (for decoration, optional)
- beet powder - a pinch (for coloring pink rice)
- sesame oil - 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon for white rice)
Instructions
- Prepare Seaweed: Finely crush the roasted gamtae seaweed in a plastic bag and cut the nori into thin stripes for watermelon skin.
- Make Pink Rice: Make a cut on the roe and scrape it out. Combine with 2 bowls of rice and beet powder to create pink rice.
- Make White Rice: In 1 bowl of rice, mix in salt and sesame oil to create white rice.
- Form Rice Balls: Spread the white rice, place the pink rice ball in the center, and wrap it with the white rice to form a round shape.
- Coat with Seaweed: Roll the white rice ball on the crushed gamtae seaweed to create a green rice ball.
- Decorate: Attach the nori stripes as watermelon skin and place a thin cucumber slice or herb stem on top as a watermelon stem.
- Final Touch: Cut the finished rice ball into pieces and sprinkle black sesame on the pink rice surface to resemble watermelon seeds.
