Rice Dishes, Rice Balls & Kimbap

Kimbap, onigiri, rice balls and rice bowls — easy, portable meals built around a pot of rice, many of them ideal for lunchboxes.

8 recipes

⏱ 50 min

Soft, slightly chewy rice shaped by hand, tucked with savory fillings, and finished with crisp nori—these homemade onigiri are wonderfully simple.

⏱ 45 min

Fragrant coconut rice with pandan, sambal, crispy ikan bilis, peanuts, cucumber, and egg—the classic Malaysian nasi lemak platter made at home.

⏱ 20 min

Seasoned rice, crunchy cucumber, and a creamy tuna-mayo filling, rolled up in seaweed. No cooking required — ready in 20 minutes.

⏱ 15 min

Gochu chamchi samgak gimbap — spicy tuna mayo with fresh perilla leaves, pressed into a triangle and wrapped in crisp seaweed.

⏱ 10 min

Warm rice, sesame oil, and seaweed, pressed by hand into a portable, no-fuss meal — the classic version to start from before customizing.

⏱ 10 min

A fried egg over hot rice, finished with soy sauce, sesame oil, and seaweed — the Korean pantry meal that's ready in about 10 minutes.

⏱ 25 min

All the flavor of classic Hawaiian spam musubi, without the shaping and wrapping — glazed spam, rice, a fried egg, and furikake, straight in a bowl.

⏱ 20 min

Chamchi mayo deopbap: canned tuna and mayo over warm rice with scrambled egg and a sweet-savory onion relish. Ready in 20 minutes.

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