Tori no Tsukune: Yakitori Meatballs

23May09

This is a reminder to all of my readers about how delicious these grilled chicken meatballs are. They are easy to make, and easy to eat—who doesn’t love food on a stick! The pictures make the skewers look burned, but that is in fact the yakitori sauce that flavors the outside of the meatballs.

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Tebasaki Take 2

22May09

Yakitori bars are found all over Japan. Chicken and other foods on skewers are served with drinks. One popular version is tebasaki: chicken wings on skewers. The section of the wing between the tip and the drummette has two bones, a fatty skin, and a little meat. The larger bone might correspond to the radius bone in your forearm (your thumb side), and the smaller to the ulna. This is the section used in this recipe, with a bit of surgery not for the faint-hearted. I converted the pictures above after Mr. Tess commented that I shouldn’t put those gory pictures up on my blog!

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Yakitori: Sasami no Ume-shiso

16Aug08

This Japanese recipe combines two of my favorite flavors: umeboshi and shiso. Umeboshi are “the olives of Japanese cuisine.” Shiso is the Japanese basil, the flavor of summer.

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Yakitori: Negima

06Aug08

Yaki (grill) tori (chicken): Negi (onion) ma. This is a popular yakitori dish for good reason! It’s not difficult to make and it is delicious.
Two grilling tips:
• a metal bread pan is good for heating the yakitori sauce on the grill, and it’s easy to dip the chicken into the sauce. Just dip and shake!
• don’t grill in the dark. Being tired and hungry does not make a happy cook.

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Yakitori Chicken Dumplings

28Jul08

The idea of going to a yakitori restaurant in Japan and ordering a cold beer with a variety of yakitori-ya appeals to me. Have a skewer with some of these grilled chicken meatballs, a couple of grilled wings, a few nibbles of dark chicken meat and negi, a little taste of the livers, and some crispy skin; it looks like a fun way to enjoy Japanese food. Eating yakitori at home, especially when there are only two of us, means dispensing with the variety. Never mind, these chicken dumplings were both easy to make and delicious!

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