Teriyaki dishes are found in many different type of cuisine nowadays, even in Mexican and Western dishes. Then, what is teriyaki? It's a way of Japanese cooking. The word, teriyaki is a combination of two Japanese words "teri" and "yaki." Teri means luster, and yaki means grill or broil.
To make a teriyaki dish, ingredients are broiled, roasted, or grilled after being marinated in or basted by teriyaki sauce. It's the teriyaki sauce that brings the shiny look (teri) to the ingredients. This is the real teriyaki, although any dish cooked with teriyaki sauce seems to be called teriyaki nowadays, whether the ingredients are Japanese or not.
You can buy teriyaki sauce in a bottle at the grocery store, but authentic teriyaki sauce is very easy to make. To make teriyaki sauce, you need soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. (If you don't have mirin, you can substitute it with sake and sugar.) The key ingredient in teriyaki sauce is mirin. Mirin adds luster to ingredients. See Teriyaki Sauce Recipe. Teriyaki sauce can be used for glazing and marinating meats and vegetables.
3 comments:
wow.. taste delicious but what is the different between "japanese teriyaki" and "chicken teriyaki" that one? is that similiar?same? or?..
hmm, is there another substitute? i don't think using sake if you don't have mirin is good if some children happen to eat it...
@Sonia Traveler :
Chicken Teriyaki is prefer to "Chicken" as it's main meat, but in this post Teriyaki is a technique of cooking which is orginated from Japan and ifluenced Cooking all over the world.
@ClassiCalm :
Mirin (味醂 or みりん?) is an essential condiment used in Japanese cuisine, consisting of 40%–50% sugar. It is a kind of rice wine similar to sake, but with a lower alcohol content—14% instead of 20%. There are three general types. The first is hon mirin (lit. true mirin), which contains alcohol. The second is shio mirin, which contains alcohol as well as 1.5% salt to avoid alcohol tax. The third is shin mirin (lit. new mirin), or mirin-fu chomiryo (lit. mirin-like seasoning), which contains less than 1% alcohol yet retains the same flavour.
Because it is low alchohol so it's safe for children to eat. Precisely, mirin makes teriyaki's scent tastier. You can try if you don't believe me. LOL :DDD
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