Whether it's a summer celebration, a late-night convenience store or a trendy bar, yakitori is the most popular delicacy. What exactly is this dish made of? A typical yakitori is a bite-sized chicken skewer on a bamboo skewer and grilled over charcoal.
Yakitori may not look very impressive, but it is a unique culture of Japan, and many restaurants specialize in this seemingly simple delicacy. It doesn't take much effort to find yakitori these days, and there are plenty of different options for both quality and price.
Although vendors are rarely seen on the streets of the city these days, this dish is indeed a famous street food. Especially the celebration of summer. The yakitori is simple to cook, only the grill is needed, and it can be easily eaten while walking, which is popular everywhere. Although it is also possible to use an electric oven, it is only grilled with charcoal that the yakitori with the traditional smoky flavor is grilled. Traditional charcoal, called "Bicho charcoal", comes from oak and is also recognized as the most suitable charcoal for yakitori.
Many chefs especially like this charcoal because it burns cleanly and smokes less, and the meat does not have an unnecessary taste due to the oil and gas in the wood. In the past, if you wanted to come to a string of skewers, you had to find a charcoal-grilled roadside stall? Now don't bother with it ~ with the fried oven, want to eat what kind of skewers can do their own, a maximum of 10 skewers at a time, the family population is small, simply grill two or three skewers is no problem, whether it is under the wine, supper, open, show this dish is invincible in the world!
Ingredients: 5 boneless chicken thighs, 2 tbsp salt, a pinch of white pepper, 2 minced garlic, 2 tbsp vegetarian oyster sauce, 15 bamboo skewers
Spread: 3 tbsp vegetarian oyster sauce, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 minced garlic, 1 tbsp sweet soy sauce paste, 1 tbsp white sesame seeds
1, boneless chicken thigh meat washed, dried, cut off the edges and corners of the sebum, thicker meat slightly repaired, each piece of chicken thigh meat cut into nine small pieces, add marinade: salt / white pepper / vegetarian oyster sauce / garlic paste, grab a grab, place ten parts, bamboo skewers washed, put into hot water to cook, and then use bamboo skewers to string up chicken thighs, each string of three pieces of meat.
2, placed on the oven rack, baked until the surface of the chicken skewers is slightly dry, 180 degrees for about 30 minutes, (need to flip on both sides, if the grilling phase is unevenly colored, to change the position) spread the sauce: vegetarian oyster sauce, garlic paste, sugar, sweet soy sauce paste, white sesame seeds, mix well together, take the chicken skewers out of the oven, spread the sauce on the chicken skewers, and bake for about 10 minutes, (like to burn a little longer) Plus version: roast chicken thigh meat rice.
Uncle tips
1, different baking methods, different sauces are also different, although the grilled chicken sauce is called grilled chicken sauce, but can be used in many meat or fish dishes, especially suitable for barbecue, grilled eel is also suitable for this sauce.
2, its usage is: put the fatty meat directly on the charcoal grill, while grilling while forcing out the oil, baking until it is about to cook and then brush the roast chicken sauce, first brush a thin layer, slightly bake and then brush, according to the thickness of the meat to determine the number of times to brush the sauce.