Korean tacos shook up the American food world with their Asian-Mex-LA flair, but I also love Korean-ish quesadillas and burritos. I think of them as customizable sandwiches or kimbap - you can have fun experimenting with fillings, flavors, and sauces to our heart's desire.

Ingredients

• 12 ounces chicken breasts or thighs, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup of bulgogi marinade
• 4 large flour tortillas
• 2 Tbsp cho gochujang
• 2 cups cooked rice
• 1/2 onion, minced
• 1 cup of red cabbage, finely chopped
• Romaine lettuce, chopped
• 3 limes, cut into wedges
• Sour cream (on the side for serving)
• guacamole (optional, on the side)

• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes

• Total Time: 40 minutes
• Yield: 4 servings

Preparation

1. Marinate the chicken for at least 20 minutes in the marinade.
2. Quickly stir fry the chicken over medium-high heat (adding the marinade to the pan).
3. When you're ready to create your burrito, lay out a tortilla and spread some cho gochujang in the center of it.
4. Layer the chicken, rice, onion, cabbage, and lettuce.
5. Squeeze some lime juice over the layers.
6. Fold, wrap, and serve each of the 4 burritos with sour cream on the side.

 

Some History of the Burrito (abridged from Today I Found Out):

"Burritos are one of the most popular Tex-Mex items on the menu. Anyone who knows a little Spanish has probably raised their eyebrows at the name, however. In Spanish, a “burro” is a donkey, and “burrito,” the diminutive form, means “little donkey.” As far as we know, donkey was never a popular ingredient in the famous dish, so how exactly did it get its name?

The Diccionario de Mexicanismos has an entry for the burrito as early as 1895, quite a few years before Juan’s time. The entry states that a burrito is “A rolled tortilla with meat or other ingredients inside, called ‘coçito’ in Yucatán and ‘taco’ in the city of Cuernavaca and in Mexico City.”
The term burrito was popular in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico.  As the dictionary entry is the only hard and fast evidence we have to show where burritos came from, the idea that they originated in Guanajuato seems to be the most likely...

Unfortunately, we can’t be sure exactly how burritos got their name.

Some people believe that it could simply be because burritos look a bit like a donkey’s ears or the rolled packs and bedrolls often carried by donkeys.

The burrito made its way into the US in the 1900s. The first mention of a burrito on a U.S. menu was in the 1930s at the El Cholo Spanish Café in Los Angeles, though burritos had likely been making the rounds in the states before then. California is still well-known for its burritos, with the Mission burrito—arguably the most popular style of burrito in the United States—originating in San Francisco. The Mission burrito is wrapped up in a tortilla and then again in aluminum foil—this is the sort that is commonly served at restaurants like Chipotle, Qdoba, and Freebirds."