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Friday, December 17, 2010

Onion Salad

Once again, I’ve been on a blogging hiatus and I apologize for that. The weather has been SOOOOOOOOOO hot here in SoCal that just the thought of going into the kitchen and turning up the heat was suffocating. I felt bad about not cooking more often, so this past weekend we headed to K-town and picked up some meat. On Sunday we had some yummy steaks and today we ate cha-dol-begi.

Enough rambling and onto the recipe…

Ingredients:

  • 1 large onion
  • dressing: 1/2 TB minced garlic, 1/2 TB wasabi, 2 TB rice wine, 1 TB soy sauce and 7 TB vinegar

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I was being lazy and didn’t want to head upstairs to grab my flash and THIS is what the picture looked like. =/

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So I went upstairs, grabbed my flash and this is the result. It’s strange how flash works better for me with food pictures, but when I’m shooting Munchkin or anything else – I rarely use flash. Anyhow…

I usually eat cha-dol-begi (thinly sliced beef brisket) with this sauce. But today I decided that I would make an onion salad similar to the one they *used to* serve at Byul Dae Po – one of my favorite AYCE Korean BBQ places. The last time I was there, the server informed me that they no longer gave out the onion salad because the price of onions had skyrocketed. =/ I dunno if that’s the truth, but I’m hoping they will serve it again in the future. Anyhow this is my replication of their onion salad. Super easy and a perfect accompaniment to gogi-gogi! First, go and grab one large white onion. You can slice it by hand, or use a trusty mandolin to do the work for you! Slice away~

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You want it thin, but not too thin…

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And then add the following ingredients: 1/2 TB minced garlic, 1/2 TB wasabi, 2 TB rice wine, 1 TB soy sauce and 7 TB vinegar.

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Mix it up WELL. You do not want to bite down into a chunk of wasabi.

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And transfer it into a nice serving bowl. You’ll be left with quite a bit of liquid so just pour it over the top and discard any excess.

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You’re now ready to eat with some gogi!

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I know I’ve mentioned Choice Meat Market before and if you haven’t already, you MUST go and try their meats.

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It’s a lot more than what you would pay at the K-market, but their meat melts in your mouth.

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I sliced up some onions and mushrooms…

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Got our trusty old indoor gogi-grill going (there’s even a compartment that collects the drained fat!) – I think the last time we brought this out was over two years ago!

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And then it was grilling time!

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We ate the whole thing!

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Everyone in our small family of three was happy and full! Hope everyone is doing well. I will *try* to be back sooner rather than later. =)

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