… with a pineapple on top.
I’ve gotten some great teriyaki sauce as a gift, but I don’t know what to do with it. Anyone have any delicious recipes involving teriyaki? I’m open to anything-- meat, fish, veggies, it’s all good. I assume. You tell me.
Sorry Bead…can’t help you…but man, am I going to keep close tabs on this thread.
Teriyaki…mmmmmmmmmmm. Hopefully someone will chime in with how we Japanese keep the meat so tender too (yeah, I know there was a recent thread about meat, but IIRC, that started getting a little weird…)
I like to marinate chicken in teriyaki sauce for an hour or so, then grill it on my George Foreman grill. Eat it as is or slap it on a bun with a little more teriyaki sauce. Mmmm.
Yakitori
Debone some chicken thighs. Cut them up into 1" chunks, making sure to include the skin. Thread the chunks on skewers with little squares of green and red peppers and white onion between them. DON’T put teriyaki sauce on them at first; grill the skewers over hot coals until about half done, then sauce them and continue to cook until done. Teriyaki sauce has a lot of sugar in it, and too long of an exposure to heat will char it unappetizingly black. Two or three minutes of exposure should be enough to caramelize it into a glaze without burning.
Serve with: nice sticky Japanese rice, and some chilled sake.
www.epicurious.com has some excellent ideas:
Chicken Teriyaki with noodles: http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=5301
Grilled Teriyaki Pork Chops with Pineapple Papaya Relish (just skip the ‘marinade’ part of the recipe and use your teriyaki sauce): http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=11847
Basically, teriyaki is used pretty much as a marinade, and doesn’t always need much else if you’re soaking your meat in it. Things like green onions and cilantro work really well with teriyaki.
Oooh, that yakitori is sounding good… although, I’m stuck in an apartment right now, so coals aren’t an option (tempting as it might be to just burn the place down for the coals alone).
Grilled Teriyaki Pork Chops with Pineapple Papaya Relish sounds devilish good. I even have a pineapple in my refrigerator, so I could just swing by the store on the way home for a papaya, etc. Hoo-ee! I am going to eat well this weekend.
Thanks for the ideas, my people. Keep 'em coming!
And I have a George Foreman grill! I am so ready to start cooking teriyaki-style, it’s embarrassing!
Take a cheap cut of beef (flank steak used to be perfect for this, now it’s trendy and getting expensive). Put it in the freezer for 45 min - 1 hr. When partially frozen, slice on a bias AGAINST the grain into paper thin slices.
Meanwhile, get an onion and slice thinly.
Boil some water. Steam the beef and onions 'till beef is just barely cooked. Won’t take long, 7 minutes tops.
Grate some ginger, chop some garlic. Pour some neutral veggie oil in a wok (peanut oil is fantastic, you can get it really hot) and heat oil. Toss in ginger and garlic. When cooked, toss in the meat and onions. Stir-fry for a couple of minutes. Add a dash of mirin (or sherry if not available) Add some teriyaki sauce, some chili or sesame oil (go LIGHT on the oil: it should be warm, not hot) and serve over a medium grain rice like basmati.
Fenris
Well, if you’re mixing ginger and garlic and soy and vinegar and sake and mirin and maybe a little extra sugar, you’ve GOT teriyaki sauce. Putting MORE in from a bottle would be redundant.
That bottle of teriyaki sauce you got there, that’s MARINADE.
Marinate something in it, and cook it.