Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken yakitori. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Yakitori is the Japanese name for skewered chicken that is grilled and basted with a sweet and salty sauce of sake, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. Chicken is marinated in a soy sauce, sake and ginger sauce, then threaded onto skewers and broiled with leeks for an easy, tasty and fun meal. Photo: Jennifer Causey; Styling: Lindsey Lower.
Chicken yakitori is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken yakitori is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken yakitori using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken yakitori:
- Prepare 2/3 cup soy sauce
- Prepare 3 tbsp rice vinegar
- Take 1 teaspoon ginger
- Get 2 pounds chicken thighs, boneless, skinless, cut into 1” by1 ¼"
- Make ready To taste kosher salt
- Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 cup Water
- Take 2 tbsp Mirin
- Make ready 2/3 cup Light brown sugar
- Take 2 Clove
- Prepare 2-4 Garlic minced
- Make ready To taste Black pepper
- Take 1 tbsp Sesame seeds
Chicken yakitori is an easy Japanese grilled recipe served on skewers. The meat is basted with a savory-sweet sauce as it cooks over a hot barbecue grill. A quick appetizer for a crowd or dinner served with a few extra sides. Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat - you want to cook the chicken fairly gently so it soaks up the sauce.
Instructions to make Chicken yakitori:
- In a medium-size pot whisk together soy sauce, water, mirin, rice vinegar, sugar, ginger, garlic, and cornstarch.
- Bring mixture to a boil, constantly whisk until sauce is slightly thickened, about 1 minute. - - Transfer 1 cup of the sauce to a bowl to use for basting the chicken. - - Thread cut pieces of chicken on skewers. Season with salt and pepper on both sides. - - Drizzle both sides of skewers with a small amount of oil to prevent sticking when cooking. - - Preheat grill over medium-high heat.
- Clean grill and then use a paper towel dipped in oil to grease the grill. - Once the grill is hot add the skewers and cook for 4 minutes. Flip over and baste the cooked side with the sauce. Cook 4 minutes. - Flip skewer over, baste with sauce, cook 2 minutes covered. - Flip skewer over again, baste, cook 2 minutes covered. - Repeat flipping, basting and covered cooking 2 additional times, 16 minutes total cooking time. - Sprinkle chicken yakitori skewers with sesame seeds. Serve chicken skewers.
Put the skewers in the pan, then brush with the sauce. Cut chicken into one-inch pieces and place in a shallow dish. In a small saucepan, combine soy sauce or tamari, mirin, sake or sherry, brown sugar, garlic and ginger. Yakitori is a Japanese skewered chicken, cooked on a griller with either sweet soy sauce or just salt. Great for entertaining a big crowd as it is a kind of finger food.
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