Korean
Chicken Bulgogi
Chicken Bulgogi is Korean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 Asian pear
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 onion
- 4 scallions
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
- 5 cups cooked white rice
How to cook it
- Grate the pear and whisk it with the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, and honey for the marinade.
- Toss the thinly sliced chicken and onion in the marinade and let sit at least 20 minutes.
- Heat the neutral oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cook the chicken and onion in a single layer, turning once, until caramelized and cooked through, about 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds and scallions.
- Serve over warm rice with lettuce leaves for wrapping if you like.
Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Bulgogi, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Bulgogi carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Japchae Glass Noodle Stir-Fry |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Bulgogi takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, onion, and rice.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.