This week’s selection required a trip to the local Asian market (Mitsuwa Marketplace) and some help with translation. Needed ingredients were oyster sauce and gochujang. I found the oyster sauce but needed help with the later which was not in English and was shelved as kochijan, I learned something new. Other needed ingredients which I had were soy sauce, and Asian sesame oil. This recipe also has a healthy dose of mushrooms, 10 ounces is called for but I ended up using an 8 ounce package. The fungi group is one of the few things my husband dose not like so I expected him to pass on this one but he threw me a curve ball and decided to eat one.

We all found these to be moist and tasty. I tasted the flavor of the mushrooms but most did not. All thought I should have added more gochujang. I did not buy the bulgogi sauce but maybe I should have. These were good hamburgers but I think they missed the mark a bit.

Now that I have gochujang (kochijan) on hand I will re-make the ginger fried rice in which I made without this ingredient. I will also be voting for the beef stew (page 149) as it also requires gochujang. To see what others thought head over to Cook the Book Fridays.