Recipe : Teriyaki Chicken
Teriyaki dish (including teriyaki sauce) is one of the most common Japanese foods overseas. Teriyaki sauce is easy to make so you can easily cook some Teriyaki dishes as main dish. The magic number to make teriyaki sauce is 1:1:1:1. You can just combine 4 of Japanese main seasonings; Soy sauce, Mirin, Sake and Sugar. Since Teriyaki sauce has a bit plain flavor, I recommend to sprinkle the “Shichimi” (Seven herbs and spices) on top as a final touch. Please try it out!
Ingredients (2 kinds) :
Teriyaki Chicken:
200g Chicken breast
1 Tbsp Soy sauce
1 Tbsp Sake
1 Tbsp Mirin
1 Tbsp Sugar
2 Tbsp Canola oil
Teriyaki Chicken Burger:
1 Set Hamburger Buns
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 leaf Lettuce
1 Tbsp Japanese Mayonnaise
Seven spices (shichimi), to your taste
Teriyaki Chicken Donburi:
150g Japanese rice *steamed
1/8 size Cabbage
1/2 stick Spring onion
2 Tbsp Canola oil
Salt & Pepper, as needed
1 pinch Nori seaweed *chopped
Directions:
Teriyaki Chicken:
1. Mix all the seasonings in a bowl and lightly stir to make Teriyaki sauce.
2. Place the skin down and make a cut in the surface of the chicken. Then, flatten the surface.
3. Marinate the chicken for at least 30 minutes.
4. Prepare the frying pan and turn on the heat to medium.
5. Put the oil and add chicken with skin side down.
6. When it starts to cook, put a lid and turn high heat.
7. When bottom gets brown, pour the sauce.
8. Flip the chicken and turn low heat with lid on. Wait for few minutes.
9. Turn over the chicken several times and entangle the sauce.
10. Heat the leftover teriyaki sauce until bubbles get bigger. Done!
Teriyaki Chicken Burger:
1. Apply Dijon mustard to the bottom of the hamburger buns.
2. Put lettuce, teriyaki chicken, Japanese mayonnaise over it. *Pour extra teriyaki sauce, if needed.
3. Sprinkle with seven spices and put the upper buns on it.
Teriyaki Chicken Donburi:
1. Thinly slice the spring onion diagonally.
2. Thinly slice the cabbage.
3. Prepare the frying pan and turn to the high heat.
4. Pour the oil and add spring onion and cabbage to stir-fry. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Put the stir-fried veggies over the rice. Then, add teriyaki chicken and drizzle the sauce.
6. To finish, put chopped seaweed on top of the chicken.
YUCa’s Tips:
1. Marinate the chicken with teriyaki sauce as long as possible.
If busy, marinate the chicken for at least 30 minutes.
2. Slice and flatten the chicken to cook well and fast.
3. Put the lid and steam chicken to make it fluffy and juicy inside.
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