{"id":7497,"date":"2019-05-10T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2019-05-10T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T22:46:06","slug":"yaki-tori-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/yaki-tori-chicken.html","title":{"rendered":"Yaki Tori Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Marinade in a savory sweet sauce, these chicken and scallion skewers (Negima) are hard to resist! It&#8217;s great for grilling outdoor or under the broiler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs or chicken tenders (at room temperature)<\/li>\n<li>9 green onions\/scallions<\/li>\n<li>neutral flavor oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c mirin (sweet cooking rice wine)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c sake<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c water<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp brown sugar (packed)<\/li>\n<li>short bamboo skewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Soak bamboo skewers in water for 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>In a small saucepan, add the mirin, soy sauce, sake, water, brown sugar, and the green part of 1 scallion.<\/li>\n<li>Bring it to a boil over high heat.<\/li>\n<li>Once boiling, reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until the liquid is reduced by half. It will take about 30 minutes. The sauce will be thicker and glossy.<\/li>\n<li>Let it cool to room temperature before using.<\/li>\n<li>Reserve 1\/3 of the sauce in a small bowl for final coating.\u00a0 (If the sauce for final coating came in contact with the raw chicken, you have to need to boil the sauce again to avoid contamination.)<\/li>\n<li>Cut the chicken into 1\/2 thick, 1 in square chunks.<\/li>\n<li>Season with salt.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the white and light green part of scallions into 1 inch pieces.<\/li>\n<li>On a flat work surface, fold each slice of chicken in half.<\/li>\n<li>Insert skewer into chicken at 45 degrees angle, and press down on the skewer to pierce thorough the center.<\/li>\n<li>Alternate each chicken slice with a piece of scallion lined up perpendicular to the skewer. Each skewer will hold about 4 chicken slices and 3 scallion pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Grease the grate of the broiler\/wire rack (or oven-safe cooling rack) to avoid the chicken sticking on the grate.<\/li>\n<li>Place the skewers on top.<\/li>\n<li>Set the broiler to high and wait until the heating elements are hot.<\/li>\n<li>Broil for 6 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Once one side has browned, turn over and grill until cooked through to the center.<\/li>\n<li>Baste with some sauce and lightly grill once more.<\/li>\n<li>Continue to broil for 3-4 minutes to caramelize the sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Transfer the skewers to a serving plate and brush the chicken on top with the reserved sauce (with a clean brush).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> 11 &#8211; 12 skewers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0 <\/strong>Just One Cookbook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marinade in a savory sweet sauce, these chicken and scallion skewers (Negima) are hard to resist! It&#8217;s great for grilling outdoor or under the broiler. Ingredients: 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs or chicken tenders (at room temperature) 9 green onions\/scallions neutral flavor oil 1\/2 c soy sauce 1\/2 c mirin (sweet cooking rice wine) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/yaki-tori-chicken.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yaki Tori Chicken&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizers","category-entree-chicken","category-ethnic-japanese","tag-koa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}