Juicy, sweet and spicy Korean pork tacos topped with fresh kimchi and the most finger licking good sauce all on a tortilla. Make the best tacos of your life!
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Happy Cinco de Mayo! I hope you have your sombrero ready because I’m doing Korean Pork Tacos today. I actually made this two weeks ago when we first tested our new grill. Boy, it was a tough one!
We never owned a BBQ grill before but finally decided to buy a Traeger BBQ Grill for our new house. Dinner was supposed to start at 6 pm, and I thought that we would have enough time if we start grilling at 4 pm. Little did we know that we had to preheat the grill for an hour before we could use it. So, there we were… with our meats, doing nothing but waiting for the grill to start heating up. Finally, we were able to start cooking at 5.15pm, but voila, the grill worked perfectly! And luckily, the butcher was able to thinly sliced the pork so it didn’t take us too long to cook it.
I’ve also made homemade kimchi using the recipe from Maangchi. Kimchi is easy to make but very time consuming. Nevertheless, I’m super happy with the result. The kimchi also works well with this spicy pork as a perfect way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
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Korean Pork Tacos
Ingredients
- 1- pack your favorite tortilla
- Kimchi I used a recipe from Maangchi
- Toasted sesame seeds
Grilled Pork Belly
- 2 lb pork belly thinly sliced
- 2 cups of water
- 1/4 cup salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1- inch ginger
Pork belly sauce:
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sambal oelek
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon chili flakes
- 2 tsp grated ginger
- 1 clove garlic minced
Instructions
- In a bag, marinate the pork belly with water, salt, sugar, and 1-inch ginger for 24 hours.
- Mix the sauce and set aside.
- When ready, rinse under cold water and pat dry.
- Preheat the grill for high heat.
- Brush the pork belly with sauce and place pork on the grill. Cook 6 to 8 minutes per side, until juices run clear.
- Serve pork belly over taco, top with kimchi and toasted sesame seeds.
Notes
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I am SOOOO making these! I’m a HUGE Korean food fan, and I’m seriously salivating right now! Wow!! Thanks for the fab idea!!
Now I could eat tacos of some sort every single night and even though today is Cinco De Mayo and I should be eating Mexican—these are the beauties I want. Pinned! (Oh and are you happy with your Tragger–I am debating one)
What a fun recipe for Cinco de Mayo! My wife loves (I mean LOVES) Korean pork tacos…so maybe I’ll surprise her with these when she gets back in town later this week. 🙂 Have fun on your travels! Pinning this now, too.
I love this idea – and I’ve heard that kimchi is very healthy too 🙂
The flavor in these is absolutely fantastic!
These look awesome! Pinned and stumbled them.. yum!
These look amazingly good, what a fun way to eat tacos! I can’t wait to try making them
YUM! I love tacos and have had so many kinds, but not this type! Adding this to try the next time we’re craving tacos 🙂
Hooray for grilling season! These tacos look amazing! Have a lovely time in LA!!
Man I wish we really celebrated Cinco de Mayo here. All the opportunity for so much delicious food like this! I like your Korean twist 😀
Ah yum! Korean food and tacos – perfect! My husband will go mental over these 🙂 pinning for later, thanks for sharing!!
OMG yum!! Definitely pinning this recipe because this looks crazy good. I used to go to a food truck in SoCal that was Korean food mixed with Spanish style. Totally reminds me of their short rib tacos!
Linda, I’ll take ANY leftovers you have of these divine tacos! Warren and I call Korean tacos “koree-cos” and I think the name should catch on 🙂 Man, now I want some kimchi in a major way!
Oh wow! I have pinned this – this is incredible! Thanks <3
Yum! I love the homemade kimchi from Maangchi too, I make a new batch every few weeks and now I can’t wait to make these tacos. They look absolutely incredible!