Rice Dishes

Spring Greens Rice Balls

Name: Spring Greens Rice Balls
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 65 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Korean
Ingredients: 70 g Rice; 20 g Chwinamul (aster greens); 20 g Bracken (gosari); 5 g Red bell pepper; 5 g Yellow bell pepper; 3 g Sesame oil; 1 g Minced garlic; 0.7 g Salt; 0.5 g Sesame seeds

봄나물주먹밥

Rice balls mixed with seasoned chwinamul, bracken and red and yellow bell peppers. You can also tuck chopped plum pickles, anchovies or pollock roe inside.

40mPrep

25mCook

2Servings

EasyLevel

🧺 Korean ingredients in this recipe

Korean Wild Greens & Mountain RootsBellflower root, deodeok, bracken and dried greens
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📘 Cooking basics for this recipe

📝 Step-by-Step Instructions

Soak the rice and cook it.

Boil the bracken, and blanch the finely chopped bell peppers briefly in the same water.

Add the chwinamul to the bracken water partway through and blanch together.

Finely chop the bracken and chwinamul.

Season the peppers, bracken and chwinamul with some sesame oil, garlic, salt and sesame seeds.

Season the rice with the remaining sesame oil, sesame seeds and salt, mix in the greens and shape into rice balls.

📊 Nutrition Facts (per serving)

295.8Calories (kcal)

57.9 gCarbs

6 gProtein

3.9 gFat

240.3 mgSodium

Nutrition values are taken from the original recipe data and are approximate.

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Source: adapted from the recipe database of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (Food Safety Korea), used under the Korea Open Government License (KOGL) Type 1. English translation and editing by coo K food.