Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay)
Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay)

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, yakitori (japanese-style satay). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay) I'm tweaking a recipe that I found from the net. This is quite easy and tasty. I made some for my kids' bento.

Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have yakitori (japanese-style satay) using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay):
  1. Prepare 250 gr chicken tenders (you can also use boneless chicken breast or boneless thigh fillets)
  2. Prepare 1 tbsp oil (more if needed. Usually I use 1 tsp first and add more if necessary)
  3. Make ready 1-2 leeks
  4. Prepare For the sauce: 60 ml shoyu (I prefer less salted version). 60 ml mirin (or grape/apple juice), 1.5 tbsp sugar

Yakitori is Japanese-style chicken, threaded on to skewers, grilled over a charcoal flame and glazed with a richly flavoured sauce. Yakitori is grilled skewered chicken dipped in a Teriyaki-like sauce. It is a very popular appetizer at Yakitori bars and other bar-type restaurants in Japan. Yakitori could be a dish at your dinner table, but it is more like the food you eat with drinks at bars.

Instructions to make Yakitori (Japanese-Style Satay):
  1. Cube chicken tenders. Slice leeks to 1-1.5cm width. Skewer them and set aside. (I put them in the fridge for a bit)
  2. Heat shoyu, mirin, sugar in a pan in low setting. Stir until sugar dissolves. Let simmer for about 5 minutes.
  3. You can cool it and keep it in the fridge for about a week. Or use it right away.
  4. Pour oil into a pan. Pour shoyu mixture to the satays, just enough to coat them. Use medium heat. Rotate the satays and pour more shoyu mixture, about 1 tsp per batch of four or five.
  5. Cover the pan and lower the heat. When the sauce is bubbly, rotate the satays. When the sauce is caramelized, yakitori is ready!

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. It is so tasty and easy to eat that you will not realise how many skewers you eat! Just like sushi and tempura, Yakitori in Japan is a serious business. At specialty restaurants, the chefs would go as far as sourcing special breeds of chicken from specific regions known for their unique texture and flavors.

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