Korean Gilgeori Toast

The ultimate Korean Street Food sandwich! Once you make this Gilgeori Toast and realise how simple and delicious it is, you'll never go back to boring sandwiches.

What is Gilgeori Toast?

This mouth-watering sandwich is a classic Korean street food filled with a veggie omelette, and topped with cheese, sugar (it works, I promise), ketchup, and a few extra shavings of cabbage. 

The Bread 

The most important element in terms of bread is that it’s thick in slice size, and square. Traditionally, the filling protrudes from the slices of bread, making it a pleasurable challenge to eat. Nevertheless, in order to sustain the weight and power of the filling, you’ll need two pieces of bread around 3cm thick. 

Now that we’ve got that sorted, we can move onto the type of bread. Many Korean street food vendors make their sandwiches with milk bread. However, you can also use multi-grain bread or plain white bread. For this recipe, I used a white bloomer bread that had been pre-sliced into thick chunks…ideal for Gilgeori Toast! 

The Filling

Oooof, now for the good bit! This is a very simple recipe, one that you could make again and again…and again. Here are the ingredients:

• Cabbage
• Onion
• Carrot
• Spring onion
• Eggs

There are a number of variations to this dish. Some recipes have just cabbage and onion, some have more eggs to make the filling more of an omelette, some have fewer eggs to make it more veg-based. It’s totally up to you and your preferences. 

All you really need to do is to chop up your veg into thin slices…or shredded! 

Let’s Get Cooking

Ideally, you’d cook this on a huge square frying pan so you can fry your bread on one half of the pan. However, like most of you I expect, I only have a medium sized circular frying pan. 

So, lather up your frying pan with butter or margarine. Pour in your egg mixture and shape it into a square (a bit larger than the size of your bread). Fry on one size (on medium heat) for around 5 minutes and then flip over onto the other side. Fry for a further 4 minutes and then place on your slices of cheese, teaspoon of sugar, and a squirt of ketchup. Remove from the pan and keep warm.

Add some more butter to the pan and place in your pieces of bread. Fry for 2 minutes on each side and then you’re ready to get serving!

Serving Gilgeori Toast

First, lay down one slice of fried bread on your plate. Then, gently place down your Gilgeori omelette filling. Optionally, sprinkle with some more shreddings of cabbage.

Finally, seal the sandwich with your second slice of fried bread. Press down with your hand to unify the Korean toast, and bam, you’ve got yourself an insanely delicious sandwich.

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