Recipe: Yummy Korean Egg Toast

Korean Egg Toast. Gilgeori toast, which literally means "street toast" in Korean, is a popular salty-sweet egg sandwich sold by many street-food vendors in Korea. For many who grew up there, it's a nostalgic snack, reminiscent of childhood. Eaten for breakfast or lunch, it's quick, easy and adaptable.

Korean egg toast, also known as gilgeori toast (길거리 토스트) / street toast , is a popular "on the go" breakfast in Korea. Korean street toast (aka, Korean egg toast, gyeran tostuh, or gilgeori tostuh) is a classic example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. The sandwich comprises easy-to-find ingredients: soft white bread, eggs, thinly sliced cabbage and carrots, ketchup, sugar (more on this in a bit), and the optional additions of mayonnaise, slices of ham, and American cheese. You can have Korean Egg Toast using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Korean Egg Toast

1. You need 4 slices of bread.
2. Prepare 4 of eggs.
3. It's 1 ounce of carrot sliced thinly/julienne.
4. You need 2 ounces of cabbage sliced thinly.
5. It's 1 ounce of onion sliced thinly.
6. You need 1 stalk of onion leeks/green onions sliced thinly.
7. Prepare 2 tablespoons of butter.
8. It's of Mayonnaise.
9. It's of Ketchup.
10. It's 2 tablespoons of sugar or to taste.
11. You need of Salt.
12. You need of Pepper.
13. It's of Cooking oil.
14. It's of Optional: ham and sliced cheese.

Korean Street Toast is a grilled egg omelette sandwich filled with crunchy veggies and cheese. It's a wonderful medley of flavors - buttery, savory, crunchy and even is a bit salty and sweet. It also has great chewy and crunchy texture in addition to the gooey melted cheese so it's bound to satisfy all your cravings! The sandwich is made with soft, thick, brioche-like bread, slathered in garlic herb butter sauce, and then grilled.

Korean Egg Toast step by step

1. Crack eggs in a bowl and beat for a few seconds. Add cabbage, carrots, onions and onion leeks. Season with salt and pepper and mix until all ingredients are well combined..
2. Preheat pan on medium low heat. Add cooking oil and pour in egg mixture. Cook for a few minutes until egg is no longer too runny to flip and cook the other side. Remove egg and set aside..
3. Optional: add a little oil to cook ham for a few minutes on both sides. Remove from pan..
4. Spread butter or mayonnaise on bread and toast using the same pan (on low heat) until golden brown. Turn off heat..
5. Add 1/4 of a teaspoon of sugar on top of toasted bread. Add/squirt on about a tablespoon of mayonnaise and a teaspoon ketchup (or according to taste). Cut cooked egg into square shapes to fit bread. Assemble on top of the bread with mayo and ketchup. Add half a teaspoon of sugar. Optional: add ham and sliced cheese. Put the other slice of bread on top and cut diagonally. Serve while hot..

It's stuffed with a slice of cheese and a couple strips of crispy bacon just like the American version, and then topped with two kinds of eggs — that's right, two — one over hard and one scrambled. Upon serving, the toast is drizzled with mayo, and garnished with a light. Korean street toast sells mostly as breakfast, it is Korean style of Grab-and-Go type of breakfast. The signature of Korean street toast and what makes it different than any other egg sandwich out there is amount of veggies and the sweet flavor. To build, Place egg on toast then place warm ham and cheese, lightly squirt the ketchup and sprinkle the sugar right on top.