Kogi Inspired Buritto Recipe

Last week, after binge watching Season 3 of The Chef Show on Netflix and being wildly inspired by seeing Chef Roy Choi and Jon Faverau play around in the the kitchen of Best Friend (Choi’s new Asian fusion street food restaurant at Park MGM in LasVegas), it occurred to me I had a bunch of staple flavor ingredients in my fridge to really kick up the ground turkey burritos I was planning on making for dinner. With the simple additions of fusing the Korean street food flavors soy sauce, gojuchang, and kimchi, I brought the south LA food staple burrito to the next level.

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil
Ground meat (I used turkey, any mince will work)
4 cloves garlic, minced
half onion, sliced
half red bell pepper, sliced
3 oz kimchi, chopped
2 generous tablespoons of gojuchang
3 tablespoons soy sauce
white pepper to taste
flour tortillas
steamed white rice
taco blend shredded cheese
leaf spinach
siracha chili sauce
kewpie mayo

This is a super easy and quick recipe that requires about 15 min prep and 20 min to cook and assemble. Steam rice, I usually do this ahead of time, getting it started so it is cooking in the rice cooker as I am chopping all the veg. In a fry pan add oil, garlic, onion, bell pepper, and kimchi and sauté on medium heat. After aromatics have cooked down and softened to a fragrant and robust aroma filling the kitchen, add your ground turkey, season with white pepper and begin to brown. Once ground meat is cooked, add in soy sauce and gojuchang (a Korean chili paste that isn’t really spicy, with sweeter notes like more of a Korean ketchup than anything else, can be found easily at any Asian market or online) and mix well until combined, drop heat to a simmer and let cook in for a few min.

Once you have your meat and veggie mix combined and cooked in, the task is simply layering the ingredients, wrapping the burrito, and throwing it back on a clean pan on the heat to toast up the outside. Order of layers for this combination (which you can clearly change to make your own) was tortilla, rice, meat mixture, cheese, siracha and kewpie mayo, and spinach. Spicy, savory, salty, creamy, toasty, cheesy, this burrito is an explosion of taste and texture.