Monday, June 8, 2009

Teriyaki Chicken

The other night I made one of Gaz's fave homemade food - teriyaki chicken. Previously I had been buying teriyaki marinade from the shops but I found that the flavour was weak although I had marinated the chicken for hours. I stopped buying the bottled marinade when I found how easy it was to make my own.

The basic marinade calls for 1 cup of light soy, 1 cup of mirin, sugar to tenderise the meat and my own twist to it: grated ginger. Gaz loves the ginger in the dish.

Teriyaki chicken with sesame seed

We also bought some king mushrooms for dinner that night. They're enormous!! I suppose they're not called king mushrooms for no good reason! It's a very meaty mushroom, with a strong flavour. I had no idea how to cook them, so stir fried it with ginger, and sesame oil. The combination didn't really work though.

6 comments:

farizan said...

Any idea what to substitute mirin with?? What does mirin actually taste like?

farizan said...

Check out the recipes here...

http://www.goldengourmetmushrooms.com/kingrecipes.html

sammie said...

It taste sweet, and alcoholic - sorry not very descriptive since it is sweet Jap sake! Other substitutes are sherry, or white wine with sugar... which aren't suitable coz they're both alcoholic! Maybe just sugar will do the trick.

farizan said...

How about grape-juice??

sammie said...

no la... where can? like ribena?

farizan said...

Well, I was thinking that most alcoholic drinks are produced from grape anyway, so perhaps grape-juice would be the best substitute... unless I can make juice out of rice (to substitute mirin)?!