Bo Ssamwich

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This mammoth repast for a Super Bowl assemblage captures the communal tone and bold flavors of bo ssam, the fashionable Korean crockery successful which slices of pork are wrapped successful lettuce and eaten with accompaniments specified arsenic kimchi, marinated oysters and steamed rice.

The look was inspired by cook David Chang's mentation of bo ssam, served astatine his restaurants, including Momofuku CCDC successful Washington.

Fried oysters are optional, but the cook judges of Smackdown X recovered that the bivalves added a nice, briny, umami-powered constituent to the sandwich. Coating them with "00" flour alternatively of all-purpose flour makes them other crispy.

You'll request an instant-read thermometer for monitoring the pork and the frying lipid for the oysters. Long toothpicks are adjuvant for assembly and serving. It's besides adjuvant to person an easy transportable woody plank -- 3 1/2 to 4 feet agelong and 8 to 10 inches wide -- to physique the sandwich on.

The 3-foot-long party-sub breadstuff needs to beryllium ordered astatine slightest 24 hours successful beforehand from Catania Bakery and A. Litteri successful the District, and from the Italian Store successful Virginia. Three standard-size loaves of bully Italian bread, chopped unfastened lengthwise, whitethorn beryllium substituted. Kewpie mayonnaise (slightly sweeter than regular mayonnaise) is disposable astatine Asian markets, including H Mart successful the Washington suburbs and Hana successful the District. The Korean chili paste gochujang is sold determination and astatine Whole Foods Markets.

The pickled carrots request to cure for astatine slightest 1 hour. The pork needs to beryllium dry-brined successful the refrigerator overnight and cooks for 8 hours successful the oven; it tin beryllium roasted a time oregon 2 successful beforehand and reheated. For a Super Bowl party, commencement roasting the pork nary aboriginal than 9 a.m. connected crippled time if you program to service it by kickoff time. The ginger-scallion sauce, Kewpiejang and pickled carrots tin beryllium made and refrigerated up to 2 days successful advance. Leftover sandwich slices tin beryllium individually wrapped successful integrative wrapper and refrigerated for up to 2 days.

From Washington Post integer exertion Alex Baldinger.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 24

For the pickled carrots

1 quart distilled achromatic vinegar
1 cupful sugar
3 pounds carrots, good scrubbed, past shredded oregon chopped into precise bladed matchsticks (julienne; whitethorn substitute 6 cups shredded carrots)

For the ginger-scallion sauce

1 1/2 cups minced ginger (from 15 ounces caller ginger root, peeled)
6 bunches scallions (white and light-green parts), chopped into bladed slices (about 7 1/2 cups total)
3/4 cupful grapeseed oil
6 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
3 teaspoons sherry vinegar
3 teaspoons kosher salt