How to Tuna-kimchi Rice Ball

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Illustration by Owen Lee


Do you have trouble making breakfast in the morning for you kids?

How about making a batter of pancakes, are pancakes healthy?

Sometimes, aren’t you sick of using a fork and knife to eat? What about all the hassle of cooking sausage, bacon, and eggs?

Well, if you are struggling to choose what to make for breakfast or what to prep for lunch (for yourself or your kids), I got the right recipe for you. It only takes 15 to 20 mins to make.


Ingredients:

  • One can of tuna

  • 2 to 3 bowls of cooked rice (each bowl is about 210 g)

    • Make sure it is the sticky rice, not the one that flies around your plate

    • Rice from rice cooker or packaged microwave rice is also ok

  • Salted roasted seaweed (usually sold in Costco as ‘roasted seaweed snack’)

  • 150 to 200 g. f. kimchi (if you have aged kimchi even better)

  • Sesame oil or perilla oil (2 – 3 spoons)

  • Some salt (couple pinches)

Here are the steps:

  1. Prepare your two to three bowls of rice into a large mixing bowl (make sure your rice is warm).

  2. Open the can of tuna and squeeze out the oil and fluid with your hand (or whatever tool you have) until the tuna doesn’t drip with any solutions. 

  3. Put the tuna into mixing bowl.

  4. Now in a running wash the kimchi lightly and squeeze it like tuna until it doesn’t drip.

  5. Cut the kimchi into smaller pieces (smaller than the bite size) and add it to the mixing bowl.

  6. Add two to three spoons of sesame or perilla oil into the mixing bowl with a pinch of salt.

  7. Open a packet of seaweed and crumble them into small pieces then add it into the bowl as well.


  8. Mix everything together until it is evenly distributed.

  9. Make a small circular rice balls from the mixture (bite-size is preferable for little kids)



Voila, you have a tuna kimchi rice ball that both kids and adults love. It is perfect for smaller children who likes finger food.

As a child, I used to eat this rice ball often for breakfast and lunch. Sometimes, my mom would put small, dried anchovy instead of tuna (leave a comment for me if you’d like to know how to make the anchovy version of the rice ball). 

Enjoy your delicious tuna kimchi rice ball!

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