Hello you lovely people, this is me the Bombay Chef Varun Inamdar
and welcome to 'Get Curried'
Today's recipe is possibly one of the simplest
and the tastiest Chicken recipes on the planet.
Chicken Teriyaki.
Let's begin.
The first step of this recipe is actually
to pan fry Chicken thighs
of course they need to be boneless.
Let's place in pieces of Chicken.
Time to add in a touch of Salt
and Pepper.
Well, Pepper in this case is completely optional
but Salt is a must.
After 3 minutes on high flame, we need to give this a flip like so.
Chicken thighs are grilled and ready.
Let's transfer this on a plate
and allow these to rest for a moment.
While the Chicken is resting, let's quickly move on to making the Teriyaki sauce.
Now it's important for all of us to understand
that Teriyaki Sauce is classically is made with just 3 ingredients.
Sake, Mirin and Soya Sauce.
Well in India, Teriyaki sauce is made in various different ways
and like I said, every restaurant has their own little take.
This is my take on the classic.
I'm of course using Soya
I'm using Mirin, I'm using Sake.
But what I'm also using is Honey
because I think that little edge of sweetness
works wonders.
Soya sauce,
Sake.
Well, Sake for the uninitiated is Fermented Rice Wine from Japan
and the next ingredients is Mirin.
Mirin is also a Fermented Rice Wine.
Well the only difference here between a Sake and Mirin is..
Mirin is high on Sugar
low on alcohol
simple.
To just add a little more spunk to this recipe
I'm going to add in Honey.
Let's mix all of this.
Scrape all of that goodness.
The fat, the Oil from the Chicken is going to add a lot of goodness to this sauce.
Well this again is an optional ingredient in this case
you can add in a little bit of chopped Ginger and chopped Garlic.
What I'm doing is, I'm adding in very little Ginger and Garlic paste.
And lastly, I'm going to make a slurry of Cornstarch and Water
and add it into the sauce.
Before adding, it's important that the sauce needs to bubble on high flame
for at least 30-40 seconds.
You mix this well.
You'll see that the sauce immediately starts thickening
because the Cornstarch has activated.
Once the sauce starts bubbling
time to place in the pieces of Chicken
into the sauce
so any cooking that would be pending would also be taken care of.
Let's turn the Chicken once-twice over
into the sauce.
After cooking for like a minute on medium to high flame
off goes the flame
because the Chicken and the Teriyaki sauce are both done and ready.
The next step, plating.
First things first
a bowl of Rice.
Time to take the pieces of Chicken
on the cutting board
and cut these into slices.
Let's place the sliced Chicken around the Rice.
I'm going to napper this with a little of this Teriyaki sauce.
Let's top this up with toasted Sesame Seeds.
Steamed Bok Choy.
And finally something that is completely optional, sliced Red Chillies.
With this,
Chicken Teriyaki like I said one of the simplest and the tastiest recipes
on this planet is done and ready.
Make this for your family, make this for your friends.
More importantly steal a bite for yourself.
Bye for now.