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Korean Fusion Tacos

≡ The perfect blend of sweet, spicy and salty. This adds a whole other twist to how you can eat tacos. This recipe is from SortedFood.com and i’ll modifying this recipe to make it healthier for you to eat.

  • Honest Prep Time: 5 Minutes
  • Cooking Time: 30 Minutes
  • Assembly: 1 Minute
  • Level Of Difficulty: Easy

Just a little warning… the instructions and ingredient list is just way too long. I would recommend watching the video and skip to my modified recipe.

Ingredients

Beef

  • 300 g Beef Mince
  • 60 ml soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
  • 2 cloves of garlic

Radish Salad

  • 60 g radishes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 pear
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1/2 clove of garlic, crushed
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar

Spinach Salad

  • 100 g fresh spinach
  • 2 spring onions
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp sesame oil

To Serve

  • 6 flour tortillas
  • 4 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp sriracha sauc

Instructions

  1. Marinate The Beef: Slice the beef into thin slices. Crush the garlic cloves and add to a bowl. Chuck in all the other marinade ingredients then add the sliced beef. Marinate for at least 2 hours in the fridge, if not overnight.
  2. Radish Salad: Peel and slice the radish, carrot and pear into very thin strips. Add in the vinegar, sugar, chilli flakes, garlic and sesame seeds and mix well until there is an even colour throughout the salad.
  3. Spinach Salad: Wash and finely slice the spring onions. Blanch the spinach in boiling water for 5 seconds, then cool and squeeze dry before tossing with the other ingredients.
  4. Sear The Beef: Get two frying pans very hot. Add the beef strips to one, without too much of the marinating liquid, and sear quickly for a minute on each side. In the other frying pan place the tortillas down one at a time and warm in the dry pan to heat and start to blacken (optional… we ran out of gas in the video!).
  5. Assemble: Mix the mayo and sriracha, then spread it over the tortillas. Fill the tortillas with the spinach, beef and top with radish salad to serve. Serves 2

Recipe: Sortedfood.com/koreanbeeftacos

Add This To Your Plan

For the beef

  • 72g of cooked OR 86g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 88g of cooked OR 105g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 105g of cooked OR 126g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 121g of cooked OR 145g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 138g of cooked OR 166g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 154g of cooked OR 185g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

For the beef

  • 170g of cooked OR 204g of raw lean beef mince
  • 4 tsp of soy sauce
  • 2 tsp of caster sugar
  • 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil
  • Dried chilli flakes & garlic to taste

Radish salad (1 serving)

  • 20g of radish
  • 1/3 of a carrot
  • Half a pear
  • 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar
  • Garlic
  • Sesame seeds

Spinach salad

  • Fresh spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Sesame seeds
  • 1 tsp of sesame oil

For the sauce

  • 1 flat Tb of light mayonnaise
  • Siracha, hot sauce or chipotle to taste

To serve, choose from:

  • 1 Old el paso tortilla OR
  • 1 old el paso mini tortilla OR
  • 2 Farrah’s tortilla OR
  • 1 Farrah’s burrito tortilla OR
  • 1 light old el paso wrap OR
  • No Farrah’s Wrap

My Thoughts

The main ingredients you need to watch out for is the sugar, sesame oil, beef mince, mayonnaise and the wrap. Make sure you use oil spray to coat the pan.

The soy sauce, caster sugar, rice wine and sesame oil is 4:2:2:1. This is important because this dish can easily stack up calories from the added sugar and oil in the marinade. The same goes for the mayonnaise. I have restricted the quantities in this recipe but feel free to add more hot sauce, vegetables, herbs and spices as you like. If you are going for a higher calorie version then I would recommend adding more chipotle in as the sauce.

I recommend you have lean beef mince 1-2 times per week.