Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Yakitori sauce recipe

Yakitori recipe from a forum

Ingredients

1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup mirin
1/4 cup sake
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 slice fresh ginger, peeled (1/8 inch thick)
1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Directions
1 In a small saucepan, combine soy sauce, sugar, mirin, sake, garlic and gingerroot.
2 Cook over medium high heat 3 to 4 minutes.
3 In a small bowl, blend water and cornstarch.
4 Stir constarch mixture into soy sauce mixture.
5 Cook until thickened, stirring constantly.
6 Strain sauce.
7 Keep at room temperature for up to 24 hours.
8 Refrigerate.

Tsukunhicken Balls
Ingredients for four people:
Minced chicken ··· 450g
Salt ··· 5g
Green onions ··· 20g
Egg ··· 1/4 (Break and lightly beat egg; use 1/4 of mixture)
Starch ··· 1.5g
Seasoning A:

Soy sauce ··· 30cc

Sake ··· 10cc

Sugar ··· 20g

Mirin ··· 10cc

Ginger juice ··· 10cc
Shichimi pepper ··· as necessary
Cooking surface: Grill pan
Method:
1) Mix minced chicken and salt until whitish.
2) Add minced green onion, egg, starch, and ginger juice and mix well with meat.
3) Shape the mixture into meat patties around 3-4 cm in diameter and 2 cm in thickness.
4) Heat oil in a grill pan, brown one side of the meat patties, then the other side.
5) Remove excess oil with cooking paper as necessary.
6) Add seasoning A to the pan and cook it on low heat until sauce thickens and becomes lustrous on the surface of meat.

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