It’s been a while since we’ve done a good food experiment, so I felt it was time. I this week’s experiment, I played a game I like to play called, “make something up out of nothing”. It was even more fun than usually because it was the end of the week and there was not much left anywhere in the house. I find it opens up my mind to challenge myself a little.
Going through and digging through everything we had, I managed to find the following:
2 frozen hamburger patties
1 container of fresh chunked pineapple
1 container of Mongolian beef sauce (leftover from homemade Mongolian beef earlier in the week)
1 package of bacon
2 whole wheat tortillas
Brown sugar
Once we had decided what we were having, it came together quite well. Wifey recommended the Mongolian beef sauce and pineapple. It reminded her of the Bonzai Burger at Red Robin. I was going to make a black and bleu taco, but she won out. I was pleasantly surprised, too.
First I set the bacon up to cook in the oven. I used a style derived from Kona bacon: Using only brown sugar instead of brown sugar, pepper, and instant coffee. Just spread the brown sugar out on the bacon and bake for about 12 minutes. Creates almost a candied bacon.
Then we cooked the beef patties in the Mongolian sauce. Simple as that. While the burgers and bacon were cooking we chopped the pineapples up.
Once the meats finished cooking we sliced them up as well to work on the tortilla shell. After that, it was just a matter of piling on the shell. I called it “Mongolian Bonzai Burger Burrito”
Everything worked very well. The brown sugar helped tie the bacon into the Mongolian sauce, which had brown sugar in it. Pineapple always pairs well with Asian cuisine, or in this case, I guess you can call it Asian fusion. Feel free to try it out. It had a great flavor to it, and was really just a great, somewhat healthy, clean out the fridge meal. Happy cooking!
Here’s the link to the Mongolian Beef recipe we used: http://www.justataste.com/2012/10/pf-changs-mongolian-beef-recipe/
