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Yakitori - Japanese Chicken Skewers
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Yakitori - Japanese Chicken Skewers

Chicken skewers in a sweet soy sauce glaze.

⏱ 25 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat
Versions:Original🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Soy-Honey Sauce

  1. 1
    Cook the soy sauce, honey, garlic, ginger and vinegar in a small saucepan over medium heat, until the sauce thickens.
    StoveSmall saucepan

To assemble

  1. 2
    In a bowl, mix and coat the chicken in the mixture.
    Bowl
  2. 3
    Soak the wooden skewers in water before threading.
    ⚙ SoakingBowlSkewers
  3. 4
    Thread the chicken cubes onto the skewers.
    Skewers
  4. 5
    Heat a grill over high heat.
    Charcoal grillorGas grill
  5. 6
    Grill the skewers on the hot grill rack 3 minutes per side, until the chicken is golden and cooked through.
    Charcoal grillorGas grill
  6. 7
    Brush the skewers with the sauce and return to the grill for 1 minute.
    Pastry brush
  7. 8
    Sprinkle the sesame seeds and scallions over the chicken.
242calories
32 gprotein
11 gcarbs
7 gfat
● protein 53%● carbs 19%● fat 28%

Per serving (193 g), of 4 servings

For the Soy-Honey Sauce · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Pastry brush · Also works: Spoon / teaspoon (regular) (Spread with the back of a spoon, less even) · Paper towels (Paper towel dipped in oil)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Skewers · Also works: Grill basket (Grill basket) · Toothpick (For small bites)
  • Charcoal grill or Gas grill · one of them

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🧩 Built from…

Soy-Honey Sauce → Grilled Chicken

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