I love Asian food and I love tacos so I thought, why not combine the two together? Asian tacos are not a new concept, but I thought why use a regular tortilla shell when you can use a scallion pancake! These Korean Short Rib Scallion Pancake Tacos were perfect to satisfy my Asian taco craving.
Ever since I started making my Simple Chinese Scallion Pancakes, I have been wanting to find different ways to use them. I like to make a big batch and freeze some for later. They are so simple to put together and really, it doesn’t take much extra time to make a double batch.
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When I first tried out these tacos, I would just rip off pieces from larger pancakes and make small wraps. I decided for the next batch I made, I would make them corn tortilla sized and they were perfect for tacos!
I’m not sure if you can really consider this a recipe, but I thought they were too good to not share. The nice part about this recipe is that you can really customize it to your tastes or what you have on hand. That’s really how I came up with these Korean Short Rib Scallion Pancake Tacos.
Substitutions/customizations
Like I mentioned above, you can really customize this to your tastes. Don’t have short ribs? Use BBQ pork, Cilantro Lime Chicken, or any other kind of protein you would like. If you don’t want to make the scallion pancakes, you would easily use corn or flour tortillas. I highly recommend the scallion pancakes, but the choice is yours!
I like to add pickled daikon and carrots to these tacos. If you like things a little spicy, you can add pickled jalapenos as well. I happened to make my own pickled vegetables, but you could also buy them from the store. Would you be interested in seeing how I pickled my vegetables?
You could leave out the pickled veggies and use a slaw on top. I have not tried a slaw on top, but there is a good Asian salad mix we like to get that has a sesame dressing that would probably be amazing on top of these tacos. You could also make your own slaw if you’d like. The possibilities are really endless with these tacos. That’s what I love about tacos, you can add what ever you’d like and it would still be good!
What kind of tacos do you like? Have you had an Asian taco before?
Korean Short Rib Scallion Pancake Tacos
Ingredients
- 1 recipe
K orean Short Ribs, see notes below - 1 recipe Scallion Pancakes, see notes below
- pickled jalapenos, optional
- pickled daikon and carrots, optional
Instructions
- Cook the scallion pancakes according to the recipe.
- Cook the Korean short ribs according to the recipe.
- Assemble tacos, laying meat, pickled daikon, pickled carrots, and pickled jalapenos on the scallion pancakes.
Notes
- I used my Keto Korean BBQ Short Ribs recipe, but you could also use any type of protein you’d like. My Cilantro Lime Chicken would also go well in these tacos. BBQ pork is another good option, I like to have bags of marinated BBQ pork in the freezer for a quick meal.
- For the shells, I used my Simple Chinese Scallion Pancakes. You could also use regular corn or flour tortillas as well.
- I happened to have pickled daikon, carrots, and jalapenos on hand for these tacos. Highly recommended but you could use a bagged Asian slaw or salad to top these tacos.
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These look really good! I wonder if you could easily make a vegan version?
Thanks Krysti! I’m sure you could easily make this vegan. Just marinade some tofu in the Korean BBQ marinade recipe instead of the beef. Let me know if you give this a try!
OMG! Scallion Pancake Tacos? What a great combo! Can’t wait to try these!
I hope you give them a try! They are such a great combo.
This looks so good, I love trying new things. Thank you for the great idea.
Thanks Lillian! I hope that you will give these a try!