Chicken Teriyaki is a simple grilled dish with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. Sometimes also with cooking sake to add more flavor. This time, we will share our favorite Chicken Teriyaki Recipe from one of our home chef Japanese staff. Feel the complex umami enough to get a second bowl of rice!
Chicken Teriyaki
Ingredients
Instructions
- Prepare the ingredients.
- Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on the chicken thigh.
- Combine mirin, soy sauce, sake, and sugar in a sauce plate.
- Heat the frypan with oil on medium heat, cook the chicken skin side down for about 4 minutes.
- Once the skin start to crisp, lower the heat, flip the chicken, close with a lid and cook again for 4 minutes.
- Take off the lid, and remove excess oil with a paper towel.
- Turn up the heat to medium, add the combined seasoning to the frypan.Don’t forget to flip the chicken so both sides will absorb the flavors.
- Cook until the moisture is reduced.
- Take the chicken off the heat, cut into pieces and serve.
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