Steps to Make Favorite Mike's Grilled Skewered Asian Chicken Yakitori Appetizers

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Yakitori with Soy, Marinade, Chinese Hot Mustard and Ginger Dipping Sauce. Garnish dish with fresh cilantro, chives, pickled ginger and / or Asian cucumbers. Serve with your marinade and hot mustard sauce. Also, with ice cold Asian beers like Sapporo.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mike's grilled skewered asian chicken yakitori appetizers using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Grilled Skewered Asian Chicken Yakitori Appetizers:

1. Take ● For The Meats
2. Make ready 3/4 Pound [or 12] 4" Long Thin Chicken Strips [left whole and threaded or cut bite-sized]
3. Make ready ● For The Chicken Brine
4. Prepare 1/3 Cup Salt
5. Prepare 1/3 Cup Sugar
6. Take 1 tbsp Granulated Garlic & Granulated Onion Powder
7. Prepare 4 Cups Ice & Enough Water To Cover Chicken
8. Prepare ● For The Marinade [or, "Tare Sauce."]
9. Prepare 1/8 Cup Brown Or 1 tbsp Granulated Sugar
10. Take 1/4 Cup Quality Sake Or Dry Sherry
11. Prepare 1/2 Cup Soy Sauce [or, Tamari]
12. Make ready 1/2 Cup Quality Mirin [a sweet rice wine]
13. Prepare 3 Cloves Fresh Garlic [smashed & fine minced]
14. Take 1 inch Slice Fresh Grated Ginger [smashed & fine minced + a dash of pickled ginger juice]
15. Take 1/4 tsp White Pepper & Fresh Ground Black Pepper
16. Make ready ● For The Sides, Utensils & Garnishments
17. Get as needed Chinese Hot Mustard [definitely hit up that hot mustard!]
18. Make ready as needed Asian Cucumbers
19. Make ready as needed Fresh Cilantro
20. Prepare as needed Pickled Ginger
21. Take as needed Soy Sauce
22. Make ready 5 inch Wooden Scewers [soaked in sake or water for 5 minutes]

If you don't know what yakitori is, it literally means grilled chicken, but can also refer to skewered food in general. It's usually skewered meat or vegetables that are grilled over a fixed charcoal grill that you can find either on the street, or in tiny izakayas, or Japanese pubs. Yakitori is a popular dish of Japanese skewered grilled chicken. In Japanese, yakitori literally means grilled chicken. "Yaki", means to grill and "tori" refers to chicken.

Instructions to make Mike's Grilled Skewered Asian Chicken Yakitori Appetizers:

1. Create your brine. Place ice, water and all seasonings into sealed tupperware for 3 hours minimum.
2. Soak your 5" wooden scewers in a quality Sake or, water for 5 minutes.
3. In the meantime, in a small saucepan, bring your marinade, or Tare Sauce, to a simmer to dissolve your sugars and spices.
4. Allow it to fully cool and place your chicken strips in it for 15 minutes to marinate refrigerated.
5. Gather and chop your vegetables for garnish.
6. Feed your chicken on to your pre-soaked scewers but definitely reserve your marinade.
7. Grill scewers for 7 minutes, then, turn up the heat. You'll want a slight char on your chicken. Constantly baste your chicken with your marinade as they grill. Flip scewers as needed until fully cooked and charred. Don't over cook tho.
8. Serve with Soy Sauce, Hot Mustard, Pickled Ginger and any leftover marinade mixed in your Soy Sauce.
9. Yakitori with Soy, Marinade, Chinese Hot Mustard and Ginger Dipping Sauce.
10. Garnish dish with fresh cilantro, chives, pickled ginger and / or Asian cucumbers. Serve with your marinade and hot mustard sauce. Also, with ice cold Asian beers like Sapporo. Or, even a quality Sake. Enjoy this very simple taste of Japan!

Yakitori is a popular dish of Japanese skewered grilled chicken. In Japanese, yakitori literally means grilled chicken. "Yaki", means to grill and "tori" refers to chicken. However, there are many different types of yakitori, and is not limited to only chicken. For example, grilled vegetables, vegetables with meat, offal, and other types of. These Japanese Chicken Yakitori Skewers are traditional street food, grilled and basted with a sweet and savoury sauce and topped with a zesty sesame-lemon sprinkle.

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