Thursday, September 6, 2012

Korean Burritos

This was spawned from a food truck festival.  I love food trucks.  They are like little traveling food adventures.  I have had some very creative food from them and like seeking them out.  So when a food truck fest came local I was excited.  Checked out all the trucks before I made my choices of where to eat.  Picked three trucks to try.  All where good but one had a Korean Burrito.  It was tasty but I really felt it fell short of the description.  So as I ate it I immediately formulated how I would fix it.  So here it is...my Korean Burritto!

First off the burrito I had they put 'fried rice' in.  It was rice with some quicky frozen veg mix in it and not very fried. It was an unnecessary filler.  I don't like things in my food that don't add to the delight of the experience.  They also had a 'Korean BBQ' pulled pork.  It was not like any Korean BBQ I've had.  It was definitely more western style BBQ with a bit of ginger in it. It also had an 'asian' slaw which was a American creamy style slaw again with a bit of ginger added (I see a theme here!) and kimchi.  The burrito was good...I wanted better.
 

My reboot omits the rice totally.  I marinated shabu shabu meat (paper thin sliced beef) with green onions and Bulgogi (Korean BBQ) overnight.  After marination, I cooked up the BBQ meat .


 Made my asian slaw (see previous post) and got some good Kimchi.  Made the slaw the night before and bought a good Kimchi from the local Korean market.


 To assemble them just put a bit of all three ingredients on a nice soft tortilla.  I found a great one with out junk ingredients a The Andersons.


 
The finished product!!!  It is tasty and all who tried it on movie night thought it was great.  You add a bit more zing by using a bit of Saracha sauce on it or (as my son tried) dip it in some sour cream! We also had a few Korean sides with it as well to make a tasty meal.