Korean Food Not Actually Cooked by my MIL

All week long I've been watching Full House. Not the version with the Olsen twins, the Korean drama with my boyfriend, Bi Rain.

Okay, he's not my boyfriend, but I have this thing for Korean boys, hence why I married one and decided to use his DNA to create offspring and stuff.

Basically all they do on this show is eat, fight, eat, look cute, eat, almost kiss, and get married a few times. The eating is what was killing me. Over and over and over again, and so of course I was dying to partake in the eating part. And maybe a bit of the making out with my fake Korean boyfriend. Just kidding babe, love you!

My MIL makes this awesome chicken. I wanted it. I had to figure it out and I came pretty damn close to how she makes it.

I took....
3 heaping tbsp red pepper paste (Gochujang)
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ginger paste
1/2 Korean pear, grated and the juice squeezed out (use the gratings, not the juice)
3 green onions, chopped
1 tbsp Mirin
1 tbsp soy sauce
3 tsp red pepper flakes
Mix all of the above with 4 chicken thighs pounded flat. You could ideally use breasts, but ugh, why would you want to?

I made my husband grill this while I made other stuff. He grills, I cook, it's a fair deal, and rather cliche. To accompany this you can make white rice, wash some Romaine lettuce leaves, and marinade some Julienned green onions with 1 tsp sesame oil, black pepper, salt and red pepper.

Take a leaf of Romaine, fill with rice, top with the chicken (I cut mine into small pieces), then top with the marinated green onions. Oh, this was heaven. I so needed this.