Say NO to Takeaway: Try this Tasty Teriyaki Chicken Instead!

This is easily one of my favourite dishes. It's one of the few things that I've actually made twice!

Er, I realise that makes my recipes look a bit dodgy when I imply that I don't repeat my own dishes. I promise you, the only reason I rarely make the same thing twice is so I always have new stuff to blog about. Lucky you, eh?

The most satisfying part of this dish (apart from eating it so happily of course), is being able to make the sauce, oh-so-easily. It would be very difficult to get the measurements wrong for this. Yes, I m bold enough to make such a claim.

So, first, the ingredients for the teriyaki sauce.

Teriyaki sauce is made out of sake (a Japanese rice wine), mirin (a sweet Japanese cooking wine), soy sauce, brown sugar and ginger. Ok, so the last three you probably have in your store cupboard. But the sake and mirin not so much? That's ok, you could use rice vinegar, white wine vinegar or sherry instead for the sake, and honey instead of the mirin.

Now I'm not particularly well-versed on ratios, but to make the sauce, you basically have equal parts of soy sauce and sake, half that of mirin, then about half that of brown sugar and a bit of ginger to taste.

Make sense?

So to make roughly 100ml of sauce, you would use:

6 tbsp soy sauce
6 tbsp sake
3 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp grated/ground ginger (fresh is better!)

All you need to do is gently heat it up until the sugar dissolves! If you want to make it as a dipping sauce instead, just mix in some cornflour to thicken it up as you heat it through.

But to continue making this Tasty Teriyaki Chicken...

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250g diced chicken thigh/fillet
Half a red onion, chopped
100g broccoli florets, chopped
100g aubergine, diced
Some grated ginger

1) Marinade the chicken in your newfound teriyaki sauce for at least 15 minutes.
2) Fry the chicken with the onion, reserving some of the marinade.
3) Add a large handful of broccoli florets and diced aubergine, mixing well. Cook over a low heat for about 5-10 minutes.
4) Mix in some grated ginger and serve with fluffy steamed rice.

And there you go - your own healthy take-out alternative!

If you liked this, you might want to try making these other takeaway alternatives too.