One of the cooking styles used in Japanese cooking is teriyaki, where food is either broiled or grilled. The word teriyaki is of Japanese origin. Teri stands for shine or glaze given to the food by the sugar content in the sauce used for cooking, while yaki stands for the broiling or grilling the food. More often than not, it was meat, which was cooked in the teriyaki style, where traditionally the meat pieces were either dipped in the sauce or brushed with the sauce a number of times, before the meat pieces are cooked. The ingredients used to make the teriyaki sauce are soy sauce, mirin, sugar or honey. Normally the ingredients are mixed together and then boiled to reduce it to the thickness, which one wants. The meat is then left in the sauce before it is grilled or broiled. This sauce tastes the best with chicken. One can easily make teriyaki chicken at home without having to buy the sauce from the store. These recipes will prove to be of great help for making wonderful chicken dishes at home.
How to Make Teriyaki Chicken
It is important to note that different ingredients like sesame, garlic, pineapple juice may also be added to the teriyaki sauce. However in traditional Japanese food these ingredients were not added to the recipe. One of the method used these days is to cook meat first and them pour the sauce on the cooked meat, however it is not the traditional method of making teriyaki chicken or any other meat dish using teriyaki sauce.
Japanese Style
There are many versions of the teriyaki chicken, which you will come across. However, to make teriyaki sauce does not take long either. The sauce can also be used in the teriyaki chicken stir fry recipe as well.
Ingredients
- pounds chicken breasts or thighs
- 4 tbsp mirin
- 2 tbsp sake
- 4 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 to 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- Clean the chicken pieces and using a fork poke the pieces.
- In a mixing bowl, mix mirin, sake, soy sauce and sugar together.
- Continue to stir, till sugar is dissolved.
- Pour the mixture on the chicken pieces and place the refrigerator for half an hour.
- In a frying pan, heat vegetable oil.
- Fry the chicken pieces on medium heat till the skin is browned.
- Change the sides of chicken and fry the other side as well.
- After the chicken is browned, pour the marinating sauce on the chicken pieces.
- Cover the pan and let the chicken cook on low heat till it is done.
- Once the chicken is done, open the lid and let the sauce simmer till it becomes thick.
- Slice the chicken pieces and serve with rice.
Although traditionally chicken wings are made by frying chicken in oil, in this recipe we are going to broil the chicken pieces for sometime, before we place them in the crockpot. Making chicken wings using this recipe is very healthy as well. Now we will see how to cook chicken wings with teriyaki sauce.
Ingredients
- 16 chicken wings
- cup dry sherry
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Scallion for garnishing
- After the chicken wings are washed, pat dry them and remove the wing tips.
- At the joint of the chicken wings make two sections.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken wings.
- Keep them aside for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Now place them on a broiler pan and broil the pieces for 10 to 12 minutes on each side, till the wings are brown in color.
- In the mean time, in a mixing bowl combine chopped onion, brown sugar, soy sauce, sherry, ginger and garlic.
- After the chicken wings are done, place them in a crockpot and pour the sauce on the wings.
- Stir the sauce, so that all the pieces are well soaked in the sauce.
- Cover the crockpot and let the chicken pieces cook on low for 4 to 5 hours till they are well cooked.
- Ensure that you do stir a couple of times in between, when the pieces are cooking.
- Sprinkle scallions on the chicken and serve warm.
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