Teriyaki Tsukune. Tsukune is usually seasoned with salt or sweet soy sauce - yakitori "tare". Ingredients for "tare" are similar to teriyaki sauce, but "tare" is much thicker and saltier. When the yakitori "tare" gets caramelized under the broiler (or over the grill), the tsukune becomes incredibly delicious.
The key to my soft and juicy meatballs is the grated onion and the amount of fat in the chicken mince (ground chicken).
Tsukune, which is often glazed with taré(similar to teriyaki sauce), is usually served with a raw egg yolk.
Aside from the sphere of yolk looking stunning on the plate, it makes for a rich contrast to the savory sweet chicken sausage on a stick.
You can cook Teriyaki Tsukune using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Teriyaki Tsukune
- It's of <Chicken patties>.
- You need 300 grams of Minced Chicken.
- Prepare 1/2 piece of Onion(make mince).
- It's 1/2 pack of Silken Tofu.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 pinch of pepper.
- You need As needed of Leaf lettuce.
- You need of <Sauce>.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Sugar.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Sake (Cooking Rice Wine).
- It's 2 tbsp of Soy Sauce.
- You need 4 tbsp of Mirin.
If you're on board with the idea, but worried about the food safety issues, there are two ways. Heat up a steel pan over medium heat. Tsukune are Japanese chicken meat balls with a kind of Teriyaki sauce and are popular at Yakitori restaurants. Often times, small Tsukune meat balls are skewered on bamboo sticks and grilled on the coal barbecue grill, but they don't have to be.
Teriyaki Tsukune step by step
- Combine te minched chicken, minced onion, Tofu, salt and pepper and mix until it become sticky..
- Make it into 12 to 15 peices round patties (Bite size)..
- Heat 1tbsp salad oil and put the chicken patties into it. When they turns golden brown, turn over and cook the other side..
- Mix all ingredients of sauce and add in 3..
- Chef Yellow Onion - Large SG$1.45/700g at FairPrice.
- Silken Tofu Extra SG$0.95/300g at FairPrice.
- Cooking Salt SH$2.95/Kg at FairPrice (Any salt is OK).
- Japanese White Suger SG$3.5/kg at DonDon Donki.
- Sake- Cooking Rice Wine SG$5~7/500ml at RedMart, Sakuraya, Dondon DONKI etc.
- Soy Sauce - High recommend this soy soy sauce which is named Yamasa Konbutsuyu - SG$7~9/L at Dondon Donki, Mid Town Mart etc.
- Hinode Hon Mirin SG$4.6/320ml at RedMart.
Here they are shaped like small hamburger steaks and cooked in a frying pan. TRADITIONAL JAPANESE RECIPE: Tsukune (つくね) is Japanese chicken meatballs that can be served on a plate or skewered. They are ypically grilled over charcoal and served in yakitori restaurants. Tsukune is usually seasoned with salt or sweet soy sauce - yakitori tare. Ingredients for tare are similar to teriyaki sauce, but tare is much thicker and saltier.