Chicken Yakitori Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ cup soy sauce

  I prefer dark soy sauce
• ½ cup sake

  or use Shaoxing wine or dry sherry
• 3 tablespoons mirin
• 1 tablespoons brown sugar

  optional - you can use white sugar
• 1 garlic clove

  minced
• 1 teaspoon grated ginger
• 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
• 6-8 fat scallions

  optional - green onion, sliced into 3/4-inch pieces (white and light green parts only)
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil

Instructions

• 1 Whisk together the soy sauce, sake, mirin, brown sugar, garlic, and ginger in a
  saucepan. Simmer over medium-high heat until the sauce reduces by half and
  becomes thick and syrupy, 5-6 minutes. Allow to cool.
• 2 Reserve 2 tablespoons to serve as a dipping sauce, if desired.
• 3 Add the chicken and scallions to the cooled sauce and marinate 1 hour.
• 4 If using wood skewers, soak them in water for 1 hour while the chicken
  marinates.
• 5 Lightly oil your grill grates and heat your grill to medium-high heat.
• 6 Thread the marinated chicken and scallions onto skewers. Reserve the marinade.
  Grill the skewers 6-7 minutes per side, brushing a few times with the reserved
  marinade.
• 7 Serve with the reserved 2 tablespoons of sauce for dipping, if desired.

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