Tsukune

Name: Tsukune (Chicken Meatballs)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped; 2 cm (¾ in) ginger, grated; 400 g (14 oz) minced (ground) chicken; sunflower oil, for frying; 1 teaspoon cornflour (cornstarch); 2½ tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon mirin; 1 tablespoon oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; ⅓ egg; 2½ tablespoons mirin; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 1 garlic clove, bruised

Chicken Meatballs

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Tokyo Cult Recipes

By Maori Murota

Published 2015

About

Ingredients

400 g (14 oz) minced (ground) chicken
2 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped</

Method

Combine all the sauce ingredients and set aside. Place the chicken, spring onion and ginger in a large bowl and knead them together well until the mixture is smooth and even. Add the rest of the ingredients except the oil and mix well. Roll into small balls about 2 cm (¾ in) in diameter if you want to make yakitori skewers, or shape into larger balls about 4–5 cm (1½–2 in) in diameter, as in th