Yakitori

Name: Yakitori
Yield: Makes 8 Skewers
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 100 ml (3½ fl oz) Japanese soy sauce; 2 tablespoons mirin; 6 spring onions (scallions), cut into 3 cm (1¼ inch) pieces; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 2 tablespoons sake or rice wine; 2 tablespoons sugar; 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 4 cm (1½ inch) pieces

Preparation info

Makes
8
Skewers

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Japanese in origin, yakitori (meaning ‘grilled chicken’) is made with pieces of chicken, sometimes interspersed with leek or spring onion, threaded onto skewers. These are basted in a marinade and traditionally grilled over charcoals.

Ingredients

100 ml (3½ fl oz) Japanese soy sauce
2 tablespoons mirin

Asia
Japan
Starter
Spring

Method

Soak eight wooden skewers in water for 30 minutes to prevent them burning.
Put the soy sauce, mirin, oil, sake and sugar in a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring. Turn off the heat and allow the marinade to cool. Transfer half the marinade to a bowl, large enough to fit the chicken skewers.
Thread the chicken onto the skewers altern