Forgot to mention after you combine the garlic, onion, pear, soy sauce, sugar, honey, & sesame seed oil, taste the sauce. if you want it sweeter you can add more sugar/honey/cola
also instead of honey you can also used cola.
pear is used as a meat tenderizer so you can substitute w/ kiwi or rice wine too!
enjoy!
I have made this a couple times and it's super yummy! Made it exactly like the recipe states and it drew 2 of my neighbors over to find out what I had on the grill that smelled so good! I always make extra so that we can have it again for lunch the next day.
Excellent barbeque marinade recipe. My family and friends love it when we put this on the grill. Finger licking good.
this was a home run i am from Hawaii and this was just like eating at the local drive in i made the usual Hawaiian sides rice and macaroni salad. ONO.
I'm Korean and this is the best galbi recipe... as is. No need to change anything. I wonder if honey is the secret ingredient that gives it the sweet glaze like coating that you can't get with other recipes. I also tried this recipe with the boneless short rib meat from Costco (which is better for braised short ribs) and still came out delicious.
In Korea Galbi is served in lettuce leaves with Ssamchang and sometimes Gojujang - these are spicy condiments and quite tasty. You can probably get them in an Asian grocery store.
This made a delicious dinner for us. I did have to change a few things (sorry review purists!) because of personal preferences. I had bonesless short ribs but this was the recipe I wanted to use. I only used one cup of sweeteners (about 7/8 cup of brown sugar and a tablespoon or so of honey) and went short on the sesame oil. I only marinated this for 8 hours and the taste was very delicious. I loved how they grill because you get crunchy parts on the edges and the insides were perfectly medium rare and perfect. I served this over sticky rice a perfect complement to the meat! I have more to BBQ waiting for us and I can't wait! Thanks for this recipe!
This is one of my favorite dishes from Korea. Just to clarify from the earlier review Ssamchang is a spicy bean paste and Gojujang is also a paste made from finely crushed red peppers. Served with steamed white rice this is a great meal.
I lived and worked as a chef in Seoul for three years and often ate Kalbi with my Korean wife. While the marinade is close to being authentic there are a few ingredients missing the cut of meat is wrong and that is why only 2 stars. When I was in Seoul they never served "short" ribs as used in this and other recipes on this site but a rib with a lot of meat attached which was cut and spread out from the bone. Difficult to describe and I do not have a camera to show what I mean as I am preparing it for some friends tonight for our monthly ethic food gathering.
