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Weather often plays a role in what we decide to make and serve for dinner. In the winter, we tend to like comfort food and, in the summer, we tend to gravitate to lighter foods or barbequed foods. Well, Spring came early to Minneapolis – at least temporarily. So, I decided to serve our dinner guests a very light Korean BBQ Pork Cabbage Wrap.
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Ingredients
  

Pork Marinade:

  • 1/4 cup sake or mirin rice wine
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp grated ginger root
  • 1 tbsp Asian chili oil
  • 1 pork tenderlion (about 3/4 pound), thinly sliced

Vegetable Marinade:

  • 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
  • 6 radishes, thinly sliced

Cook Pork:

  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 3 green onions, cut into 1 inch lengths

Serve:

  • 12 Napa cabbages
  • 2 cups shredded baby bok choy

Instructions
 

  • Pork marinade
    Mix together the sake, soy sauce, water, garlic, gingerroot, and chili oil, in medium bowl.
    Add the pork and mix to cover the pork. Cover and refrigerate.
    Marinate at least one hour; overnight is best.
    Cook pork
    Heat sesame oil in a large skillet.
    Once pan is hot, add pork (use a slotted spoon so that you are not cooking the pork in
    the marinade). Add the onions.
    Cook through – about 5 - 10 minutes depending on how thinly the pork is sliced.
    Vegetable marinade
    While the pork is cooking, mix together rice wine vinegar and honey.
    Separate equally into two bowls. In one bowl, add the radishes. In the other bowl, add the cucumbers. Stir both. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
    Assemble
    Fill the cabbage leaves with pork and top with marinated vegetables and shredded bok choy.
    Lessons Learned:
    You can marinate the vegetables in the same bowl, however, the red from the radishes will turn the whites of the cucumber red.
    Do not marinate the vegetables for too long as they may lose their crispiness.
    I serve this family style so that each person can assemble the wrap to their unique tastes.
    HAPPY EATING!!