The Kitchn: Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps
A trip to the Korean market is always fun when I'm getting ready to entertain or simply preparing a weeknight meal. We love Korean food at our house, and pork belly lettuce wraps are always a fun and active way to serve delicious, flavorful food, no matter the occasion.
These lettuce wraps celebrate the popular Korean dish Samgyeopsal Gui, which simply means grilled pork belly. Koreans traditionally eat Samgyeopsal while grilling the meat themselves at the table. The pork is then placed into a piece of lettuce topped with a Korean perilla leaf, a delicious green onion salad and then either ssamjang or a sweet and spicy gochujang (hot pepper paste) mixture to top it all off.
You can slice the green onions with a knife, as I used to do, or pick up a special green onion shredder at a Korean or Asian market. These make long, tender threads of onion in no time. I absolutely love tools that help me work faster in the kitchen. To my delight, my mother recently gave an extra one she had in her drawer of cool kitchen gadgets.
In addition to the green onion salad, I love topping my lettuce wraps with pickled vegetables and kimchi. Fresh, tangy and spicy all in one bite. It can't get any better than that.
Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps
Serves 6.
For the gochujang mixture:
3/4 cup gochujang
2 tablespoons honey
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