How to make teriyaki chicken

How to make teriyaki chicken . Japanese cuisine has endless dishes beyond sushi and among them is this teriyaki chicken recipe .

It is one of the best-known Japanese dishes in the West, along with sushi and sashimi, and has become a recurring recipe for lovers of Japanese cuisine.

Without going into the depths of sushi, which can be quite laborious when it comes to preparing it, teriyaki chicken  is a very simple recipe that we can easily make ourselves. Teriyaki is actually a culinary technique that involves cooking food in a sweet sauce, either baked or grilled.

The word teriyaki derives from teri , referring to the shine or lacquer provided by the sauce in which it is bathed, and yaki, indicating the cooking method by dipping the product into the sauce.

We can make teriyaki with other types of meat (pork, cow, tuna, salmon …) and forms, the yakitori teriyaki , some chicken skewers and vegetables cooked in the teriyaki style , is very well known . On the blog you will find a recipe that also succeeds, the meatballs in teriyaki sauce . The sauce in this recipe is prepared by heating and reducing various ingredients: soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sake, and ginger can be added as a dressing.

An original dish within the recipes with chicken that you can find on the blog, something different from the chicken preparations that we are used to at home, easy and successful. What are you waiting for? Surprise your friends and family.

Preparation of teriyaki sauce

1. Teriyaki sauce is made by mixing and heating four ingredients: sugar, takara mirin, soy sauce and sake (the latter can be substituted by another type of alcohol) and I also add the freshness of ginger. The ingredients do not have to be in the same proportion, it depends on the recipe.
2. We prepare our sauce by  pouring the soy sauce, the Mirin, the sugar, the sake and the ginger skin into a saucepan. Heat over high heat and stir until sugar dissolves.
3. Let it cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Strain the sauce and reserve. In case you do not want to make the sauce at home you have the option to buy it ready-made, but it is not as rich.

Preparation of the teriyaki chicken. Final presentation

1. We clean the chicken breasts of possible traces of fat and veins that it may have. We chop them into not too small dice.
2. As an accompaniment to chicken, the most common is to use fresh onion or chives that are cooked with the meat.
3. With any of the two we will get that in the end it is caramelized thanks to the sugar of the teriyaki sauce. In this case we have chosen a large chive, we cut it into julienne strips in thick strips.
4. In a large frying pan, heat the oil and add the chicken pieces and the chives. We brown for about 5 or 6 minutes.
5. We add the teriyaki sauce that we have prepared and let cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.
6. We will see that the chicken is shiny, like lacquered with the sauce, and it has almost been consumed. We serve the chicken with white rice, if you dare I leave you with this basmati rice recipe , ideal for this dish.

Here you have the step by step of this teriyaki chicken recipe in this album. Following the explanations and the photos I assure you that it will be perfect for you at first.

Tips for a yummy teriyaki chicken

• The only difficulty may be getting the Japanese ingredients for this sauce. Although today on the shelves of many large areas. We can already find typical oriental ingredients, both Chinese and Japanese, or in any case, in many online stores.
• The soy sauce is a seasoning produced by fermentation of soybeans with a fungus, Aspergillus sojae the.
• Mirin is a sweet wine with a lower alcohol content than sake. It can be consumed as is or after a reduction to eliminate its alcohol.
• Sake , or rather, what is known in the West as sake, is a rice wine. An alcoholic beverage prepared from an infusion made from rice, which in Japan is called nihonshu.
• The word sake in Japanese means alcoholic beverage. The mixture of all these ingredients helps us to prepare this delicious recipe.