Korean Burrito

This vegan Korean burrito recipe is a spin-off of Korean street food you can make at home. Use Beyond Steak Tips or Mushrooms for this delicious spicy vegan burrito recipe.

We love street food and food trucks, so when we found a vegan Korean food truck on our travels, I ate the most incredible vegan Korean burrito. So, I created my version of this delicious Korean burrito recipe at home. And let's say this Asian fusion burrito was a hit!

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• Korean Street Food
• Korean BBQ Burrito Ingredients
• Korean BBQ Burrito Ingredient Substitutions
• Yum-Yum Sauce Ingredients
• Yum-Yum Sauce Ingredient Substitutions
• How to Make a Vegan Korean Burrito Recipe
• Serving Suggestions
• Recipe FAQs
• Tips
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Korean Street Food

Although Korean street food is generally not vegan, we hit the jackpot on our travels in Oahu, Hawaii, on the North Shore, where food trucks line the surfer town of Haleiwa. We love Korean food!

The vendor was cooking in front of me, allowing me to see each ingredient she added. She wrapped the Korean BBQ burrito in aluminum foil and handed it to me. In the cardboard container, she served the burrito with a vegan spicy yum-yum sauce.

My version is oil-free, and I improvised to remove the refined sugar and some other ingredients to make this vegan Korean BBQ burrito recipe as healthy as possible.

Korean BBQ Burrito Ingredients

• Beyond Steak Tips: Beyond Steak™ is plant-based seared steak tips designed to look and taste like real steak. Made from simple plant-based ingredients, these seared steak tips are delicious and can be cooked in just 5 minutes. Delicious fajitas, stir-fries, salads, and more became much easier with Beyond Steak™. And a Beyond vegan Philly cheesesteak sandwich is a perfect recipe to try!
• Garlic: Fresh minced garlic has the best flavor.
• Ginger: I also used fresh minced ginger as well.
• Rice Vinegar: Rice vinegar is sweet and tangy and the perfect sauce to use for this vegan Korean burrito recipe.
• Soy Sauce: Soy sauce supplies the Beyond Steak Tips with an umami flavor.
• Maple Syrup: Maple syrup offers a sweetness without using refined sugar.
• Vegan Kimchi: All kimchi is not vegan; some contain fish sauce, so read the label and look for the vegan types available. Also, you can choose mild, medium, or spicy. Pick your preference.
• Cooked Brown Rice: I cooked the rice in advance, so it was cold from the refrigerator when I put the burrito together.
• Sun-Dried Tomato Tortillas: We are fortunate to have an oil-free vegan bakery in town, but you can make oil-free tortillas at home.

Korean BBQ Burrito Ingredient Substitutions

• Skip the fake meat and use portobello mushrooms instead. I made both versions and liked the mushrooms and Beyond Steak Tips. I liked the mushrooms, and Paul enjoyed the Beyond Meat Steak Tips.
• One clove of garlic equals about ⅛th of a teaspoon of garlic powder.
• 1-inch piece of fresh ginger is the equivalent of 1 ¼ teaspoons of ground or 1 tablespoon of crystallized ginger.
• The closest match to rice vinegar's sweet-to-sour ratio is apple cider vinegar.
• Choose Tamari or liquid aminos to substitute soy sauce. Or use lower-sodium soy sauce for those who avoid sodium.
• Date syrup is an excellent replacement for maple syrup.
• Pickled cucumbers or pickled red onions to substitute kimchi.
• Any cooked rice or quinoa substitutes brown rice.
• Instead of using tortillas, add the ingredients to a bowl, or serve in lettuce wraps,

Yum-Yum Sauce Ingredients

• Vegan Mayonnaise: I make homemade cashew vegan mayo with a nut-free option.
• Organic Tomato Paste: A little tomato paste gives the sauce a pink tone and a creamy base.
• Garlic Powder: The flavor is garlicky but vastly different than fresh-chopped garlic. It tastes sweeter and much less assertive than fresh garlic, but also without the caramel undertones you get from roasted or sautéd garlic.
• Onion Powder: Onion powder adds a sweet and savory flavor to certain dishes that you can't get from fresh onions
• Smoked Paprika: Smoked paprika has a smoky and spicy flavor with hints of sweetness. Mildly hot smoked paprika does not have much sweetness, but it has some heat in the taste. Hot or spicy smoked paprika has more warmth than mildly hot smoked paprika and no sweetness.
• Maple Syrup: Add a slight sweetness to the sauce.
• Sriracha: It is generally spicy with a tangy, sweet flavor, pungent garlic notes, and a consistency similar to ketchup.
• Soy Sauce: Soy sauce provides salt, sweet, umami (savory), and even a little bitter flavor. This balanced flavor profile makes it an excellent condiment. You predominantly detect the salt, sweet, and umami.
• Water: Water thins the sauce to the perfect consistency.
• Sea Salt: Sea salt tends to have a slightly different taste than table salt, as well as texture and other processing
• Black Pepper: I prefer fresh ground pepper. Spicy, earthy, hot, woody, brash—pepper's distinct flavor somehow pairs well with just about any savory food and some sweet ones. If salt helps bring out flavors, black pepper makes foods bolder versions of themselves.

Yum-Yum Sauce Ingredient Substitutions

• For a soy-free option, try Tamari or liquid aminos.
• Buy store-bought vegan mayo that meets your nutritional goals.
• Try date syrup or agave nectar as a substitute for maple syrup.
• If you don't have tomato paste on hand, use ketchup.
• Chipotle pepper powder is likely the closest thing you will find as a smoked paprika substitute in most spice racks. Chipotle powder is made from smoked dried jalapeño peppers, so the earthy tone that's so important to the substitution is there in spades.
• Use fresh garlic and onion instead of the powdered versions, but double the amounts.

How to Make a Vegan Korean Burrito Recipe

Korean Burrito Meat

1. Add garlic and ginger in a large skillet, cooking until fragrant over medium heat.
2. Add the Beyond Steak Tips or substitute with sliced portobello mushrooms.
3. Once the steak tips or mushrooms begin cooking, add the soy sauce, rice vinegar, and maple syrup.

Yum-Yum Sauce

1. Combine all ingredients in a high-speed blender, or whisk to combine.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Taste to adjust spice level and personal preference for salt and pepper.

Assembling the BBQ Burrito

1. Cook the rice in advance and allow to cool.
2. Remove the kimchi from the jar/container.
3. Squeeze the kimchi in the sink, or retain the kimchi brine for another recipe.
4. Lay each tortilla on a flat surface.
5. Add ¼ of the brown rice to the center of the tortilla.
6. Then, add ¼ of the squeezed kimchi on top of the brown rice.
7. Now, Add ¼ of the cooked Beyond Steak Tips or Mushrooms
8. Drizzle with yum-yum sauce.

Cooking Options

• Preheat the air-fryer to 400 degrees or an oven to 400 degrees.
• Pull the sides of the burrito together and roll upward while tucking the ingredients inside the burrito.
• Wrap each burrito in aluminium foil.
• Place the burritos in the air fryer or on a baking sheet.
• Cook in the air fryer for 5-7 minutes.
• Or cook in the oven for 10-14 minutes.

Serving Suggestions

• I served this vegan Korean BBQ burrito with a spicy Asian salad.
• Also, my family likes additional vegan yum yum sauce on the side for dipping.
• Or, try spicy coleslaw.
• Another great side dish is Korean cauliflower.

Recipe FAQs

Tips

• Cook the rice, "meat," or mushrooms beforehand and allow them to cool so the ingredients are easy to handle when making the burrito.
• Placing the cooked rice in the burrito first adds a moisture blocker to the rest of the ingredients, preventing the burrito from breaking when folded.
• The aluminum foil keeps the burritos soft. If you want a crunchy burrito, don't wrap it in, but place it on the baking sheet or in the air fryer pan seam side down. The cooking time and temperature are the same.
• Prepare the yum-yum sauce so it has time to thicken in the refrigerator.
• Squeezing the kimchi's liquid helps keep the burrito from getting soggy.

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