The Traveling Epicurean

Korean Beef Bulgogi on CT Style with Teresa Dufour!

Korean Beef Bulgogi on CT Style with Teresa Dufour!

This week I was excited to show you how to make an easy and delicious dish on CT Style for the new year! The marinade for this Korean Beef Bulgogi recipe is so versatile you’ll find yourself going back to it over and over for these luscious flavors.

Cooking with Teresa Dufour on CT Style couldn’t be more fun! She is such a professional in her field, all awhile being her natural down to earth self! When we are going live for the camera’s it feels as though we are just hanging out in one anothers kitchen, laughing and cooking it up.

The marinade for this Beef Bulgogi is delicious on any meat, scrumptious chicken and pork.  Really easy to bring these wonderful flavors of the soy, toasted sesame oil, garlic and green onion to whole pieces of chicken breasts and thighs, beef london broil and ribeye, and pork tenderloin with out all the prep of slicing.

Let’s not forget the sugar in this marinade, a key player working hard as a natural tenderizer! In Korean cooking, sometime’s you’ll find grated asian pear in the ingredient list. An enzyeme in the asian pear called calpain naturally tenderizes the meat while giving it a hint of sweetness.

This marinade alone will make a great addition to your cooking repertoire! Below are a few of my high viewing recipe shows on my YouTube channel that you should check out.  Some are even into the 100,000’s viewing range. Remember to SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube Channel too. Enjoy and lets make this 2020 the best year ever!

BEST Buffalo Chicken Dip at 144,000 views, my Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies at 80,000 views, my Braciole at 34,000 views and a recent release already at 14,000 views is my BEST New England Chowder!

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS For Beef Bulgogi

  • 2 lbs. top sirloin or ribeye steak, thinly sliced
  • ¼ c. white sugar
  • ¾ c. low sodium soy sauce
  • ¼ c. sesame oil
  • 2 bunches green onion thinly sliced, saving ½ c. for garnish
  • ¾ c. toasted sesame seeds, ¼ c. for garnish
  • 4 garlic cloves put thru garlic press
  • ¼ c. vegetable oil
  • 2 bunches steamed broccoli
  • 6 c. cooked long grain rice

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Add sugar to sliced meat to begin tenderizing the meat
  2. Mix in a small bowl soy, sesame oil, green onion, crushed garlic and sesame seeds
  3. Add this soy mixture to the meat, cover with plastic wrap and put into the frig for 1 hour to over night
  4. Add 2 tbsp. corn oil to a hot cast iron pan or Korean stove top grill pan and sear in 4 batches so as not to crowd pan
  5. Sear for 4-5 minutes, remove and repeat
  6. When all the beef is cook serve with rice and broccoli, garnish with toasted sesame seeds and sliced green onion
  7. OR serve in lettuce leaf wraps and a Ginger/Soy Dressing for dipping

CT Style Making Asian Shrimp & Rice Noodle Salad with Ryan & Teresa!

CT Style Making Asian Shrimp & Rice Noodle Salad with Ryan & Teresa!

Back on CT Style this week with Ryan Kristafer and Teresa Dufour making the perfect summer picnic dish, Asian Shrimp & Rice Noodle Salad, never gets dull with those two! I thoroughly enjoy every second on the WTNH set at Channel 8. There were several groups going on camera this week making it even more exciting then usual, if that’s at all possible.

Not only do I try to offer appropriate seasonal recipes but its important for me to find out what recipes my followers and friends want to see so please feel free to make suggestions always. That’s how I came up with this Asian Shrimp & Noodle Salad… it was the #1 request, a picnic-beach salad that won’t spoil.

You can find the wriiten recipe for this Asian Shrimp & Rice Noodle Salad and how I originally got it from my big foodie friends Karen and Ken from Andover, MA by clicking on the hyper-link.

Here are some other summer dishes you may enjoy like my 2 minute Homemade PESTO on crostini with roasted cherry tomatoes and mozzarella, EGGPLANT BALLS, ZUCCHINI TORTA, Mediterranean Chicken Kabobs, or Dreamy Cream & Fresh Berries.

 

Thai Slaw

Thai Slaw

This is definitely not a boring old cole slaw. It has 2 cabbages, sweet and green onion, carrots, crunchy peanut butter, ginger, soy, fresh lime juice, and a few other seasonings. I have used both napa cabbage for this slaw and regular green cabbage and I have to tell you that the green cabbage holds up so much better while the napa gets mushy quickly. This Thai slaw is packed with flavor so you may want to pair this with something on the more simple side of things like grilled salmon, or steak, sautéed chicken or sea bass. Then a chocolate-avocado mousse or pavlova with fresh pineapple & berries could do the trick to end the meal well.

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Ingredients:

    • 4 cups thinly sliced green cabbage
    • 2 cups thinly sliced red cabbage
    • 1/2 cup thinly sliced Spanish onion or Vidalia onion
    • 1 cup shredded carrot
    • 1/2 cup thinly diced green onions (6 of them)
    • 3 Tbsp fresh zested ginger (on micro planer)
    • 1/2 cup Helman’s mayo
    • 3 Tbsp crunchy peanut butter
    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 2 tbsp olive oil
    • 2 Tbsp rice wine
    • 2 Tbsp cider vinegar
    • 2 Tbsp reduced sodium Kikoman soy sauce
    • 1 Tbsp sesame oil
    • 3 dashes tabasco
    • juice from 2 limes
    • 1 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds plus 1 Tsp for the garnish

Directions:

  1. Toast sesame seeds on medium heat in a small pan shaking the pan periodically back and forth
  2. This happens quickly once they heat up…it will only take about 3-4 minutes so it’s best not to leave the pan or the stove so they turn golden evenly
  3. Once the sesame seeds are golden remove from the pan, place in a ramekin and set aside
  4. Add sliced green cabbage, red cabbage, Spanish onion, green onions, shredded carrot and zested ginger to a large mixing bowl
  5. Then add in peanut butter, mayo, soy, vinegar’s, oils, fresh lime juice, sugar, Tabasco, sesame seeds and toss together to mix thoroughly
  6. Serve in a large bowl and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds