j biesinger
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I'm only a couple of months and a few recipes into this cookbook but I have to say I'm pretty much in love with it.
Tonight's meal started with a trip to H Mart on or way home from Boston. It was about 20 min out of our way but it was worth the trip. We scored lots of cool ingredients along with some korean cucumbers, kimchi, frozen dumpling, and slice pork belly, which would be dinner.
Before grilling, the sliced belly was briefly cured in a mixture of equal parts salt and sugar. I had to modify the belly instructions since H mart only sold it sliced.
The finished ssam lettuce wrap consisted of the belly, mustard seed sauce, quick pickled cukes, and a few grilled jalapenos.
The real star was the sauce. You pickle mustard seeds and mix them with scallions, chopped quick pickles, dijon and chinese mustards, and kewpie mayo. It complimented the salty/fatty belly and made for an awesome bite of food.
Tonight's meal started with a trip to H Mart on or way home from Boston. It was about 20 min out of our way but it was worth the trip. We scored lots of cool ingredients along with some korean cucumbers, kimchi, frozen dumpling, and slice pork belly, which would be dinner.
Before grilling, the sliced belly was briefly cured in a mixture of equal parts salt and sugar. I had to modify the belly instructions since H mart only sold it sliced.
The finished ssam lettuce wrap consisted of the belly, mustard seed sauce, quick pickled cukes, and a few grilled jalapenos.
The real star was the sauce. You pickle mustard seeds and mix them with scallions, chopped quick pickles, dijon and chinese mustards, and kewpie mayo. It complimented the salty/fatty belly and made for an awesome bite of food.
