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Originally Posted by CarleyGee
Yakitori is grilled chicken speared on sticks. All different parts of the chicken, thighs, skin, liver, etc. can be used for yakitori. The following recipe shows one of the most popular kind which is prepared with chicken thighs and leek.
Ingrediants :
* Chicken thighs: without bone and skin
* Japanese leek (negi*), leek, or green onion
* Soya sauce
* Mirin* or sake*
* Sugar
* Honey or maple syrup
* Small wooden spears
* This ingredient may not be available in Western supermarkets, but you should be able to find it in Japanese grocery stores that exist in most large European and American cities.
Preparation:
1.
Mix together 4 tablespoons of soya sauce, 3 tablespoons of sugar, a little bit of honey or maple syrup, a little bit of mirin and water, and heat it up until it's homogenous.
2.
Cut the chicken thighs into about 3x2x2cm large pieces.
3.
Put the chicken pieces into the already prepared sauce, and let it stand for a while.
4. Cut the leek or green onions in about 3 cm long pieces.
5.
Spear three or four pieces of chicken and some leek on each wooden stick.
6. Grill them, or use the oven at 200 degrees celsius. (You may want to wrap the wooden sticks with aluminium foil; otherwise, they may burn off.)
Japan-guide.com is where I got recipe.
This looks delicious. |
Better yet >.>''
1. Omit the Honey. There's already sugar there AND the Mirin. Adding honey just Americanises the dish.
2. It's better of you baste the chicken while cooking it over a flame or charcoal.... just letting chicken marinate for a few minutes isn't going to do anything but leave you with tasteless chicken >.>'
3. Yakitori means shiny chicken =3
not "skewered chicken"
4. Recipe TOTALLY omits the soaking of the skewers in water for atleast 30 minutes prior too cooking in order to prevent scorching of the wood >.>
5. Don't use "SOYA" sauce. it's bad for you. Instead opt for a more natural "soy" sauce ^_^
6. American supermarkets now a days are a bit better equipped with foreign ingredients than your recipe suggests >.>'