Quick & Easy Chicken Teriyaki Recipe | How to make Chicken Yakitori |Grilled Chicken Japanese Style

chicken thighs

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: chicken drumsticks

Chicken breast is leaner, while drumsticks are often less expensive.

mirin

🥗Healthier: rice vinegar + sugar

💰Cheaper: white wine + sugar

Rice vinegar + sugar mimics mirin's sweetness and acidity.

sake

🥗Healthier: dry white wine

💰Cheaper: rice wine vinegar

Dry white wine can substitute sake for flavor.

shichimi togarashi

🥗Healthier: black pepper

💰Cheaper: paprika

Black pepper adds spice without the cost of shichimi.

Cut chicken into cubes.

Season chicken with salt, black pepper, paprika powder, and garlic powder.

In a bowl, mix soy sauce, water, vinegar, brown sugar, and grated garlic to create the teriyaki sauce.

Heat olive oil in a pan and add the chicken cubes, cooking until browned.

Pour the teriyaki sauce over the chicken and cook until the sauce thickens and glazes the chicken.

Serve hot.

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