If you are a lover of Japanese cuisine, then this article is for you. If you have never tried the food according to the recipes of this country, we recommend that you try chicken in teriyaki sauce in the near future. In the oven, this dish turns out to be very juicy, beautiful, as if watered with gloss. The meat is moderately sharp, salty, slightly sweet due to the presence of sugar or honey in the sauce. We suggest considering several options for baking in the oven of chicken in teriyaki sauce. Recipes will be presented for whole poultry, portioned slices and fillets.
How to make teriyaki sauce?
Before we go directly to the chicken recipes, we suggest that you understand the features of the preparation of Japanese sauce. Consider the classic recipe and its appearance changed by the Russian housewives. Choose the one for which there are ingredients at home, or buy the necessary ones in the store.
Classic Teriyaki Sauce:
- half a glass of soy sauce and mirin (this is rice wine);
- a tablespoon of brown sugar;
- two teaspoons of dried ginger or grated fresh.
By the way, even Japanese chefs modify the recipe, some advise adding sake (three times less) or apricot jam instead of mirin .
In preparation, this sauce is very simple, the main thing is the availability of ingredients.
- Soy sauce is placed in a metal dish, dissolve sugar in it over low heat.
- Add ginger, pour the wine, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring constantly, so as not to burn.
Modified Recipe:
- half a glass of soy sauce;
- a tablespoon of dried or fresh ginger;
- three tablespoons of honey;
- two cloves of garlic.
Cooking also does not take much time:
- Soy sauce put on a slow fire, pour in honey, cook until completely dissolved.
- Add chopped garlic and ginger, cook for 10 minutes, stirring.
Teriyaki sauce (correctly teriyaki) gives its recognizable taste exactly rice wine. But if you only need to get a transparent, brown gloss on the chicken, then use the second recipe.
This Japanese sauce is suitable for absolutely all dishes: meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, potatoes, rice and so on. Today we propose to consider the recipes of chicken in teriyaki sauce in the oven. Photos of ready meals are also provided in the article.
Glossy legs
The most popular chicken parts for cooking are chicken legs. You can take them whole or separately shins or thighs. This recipe is the easiest to cook in the oven. Teriyaki chicken can be served on the festive table, guests will appreciate both the taste and the beautiful appearance of the dish.
To prepare you will need:
- three legs or six legs and thighs (one thing is possible);
- teriyaki sauce;
- salt;
- sesame.
The sauce itself is a little salty, but for some this may not be enough, you will need to try the sauce first and only then decide whether to add extra salt. As for sesame, it is optional, but preferable, the seeds will not only decorate the dish, but also give the taste a special shade.
Cooking legs with a glossy crust
It is not necessary to have the skills of a professional chef to cook chicken and teriyaki sauce in the oven yourself. There are no ingredients that cannot be found in the supermarket in the recipe. Even if there is no rice wine, it is quite possible to do without it, as the experience of the hostesses proves. A little time and desire, and a Japanese restaurant dish will be on the family table, most importantly - at minimal cost!
Cooking:
- If the whole legs, then they need to be divided into shin and thigh. You can leave whole legs, but the time for baking will require a little more.
- In case the sauce seemed not too salty, rub each piece of the bird with a small amount of salt, put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes, so that the legs are salted.
- Pour the chicken into the sauce and let it brew for half an hour. Next, sprinkle the pieces with sesame seeds (optional).
- Place the legs on a baking sheet covered in baking paper.
- Place the dish in the oven for forty minutes (if pieces) or for an hour (if whole legs). Bake at 180 degrees.
Oven Teriyaki Chicken Fillet
The recipe with a photo of this delicious dish will not leave a single person indifferent. Baked pieces covered with a beautiful brown glossy crust cause appetite, even if a person is full. If you don’t know what to cook for dinner, and everything is already boring, then cook in the oven chicken in teriyaki sauce - in this case, fillet.
Of the ingredients you will need:
- 500 grams of chicken fillet;
- 300 grams of ham;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- teriyaki sauce.
Fillet preparation
This dish can be served for lunch and dinner, as well as used for treating guests. As a side dish, mashed potatoes, boiled rice, vegetable salad, pasta are suitable. Cooking is very easy:
- Cut the fillet into 4 wide pieces, put on cling film, cover with it, beat off a little.
- Dice ham and cheese, mix.
- Place ham and cheese in the center of each piece of chicken so that the edges of the fillet can be closed by laying on top of each other. Close the filling with the edges of the fillet.
- Pour the resulting “chests” with teriyaki sauce, let it brew for 10-15 minutes, then place it on the baking sheet with the edges of the pieces stacked down.
- Put the baking tray in the oven for 30-35 minutes at 180 degrees.
The result is a delicious meat dish: crisp on top, then juicy chicken, and in the center soft cheese with slices of ham!
Next, we offer to bake in the oven a whole chicken in teriyaki sauce. So that the dish pleases not only with its excellent taste and crust, but also eliminates the need to prepare a side dish, we stuff the bird.
Stuffed chicken with a glossy crust
Not to say that the preparation is very simple, but there are no special difficulties either. Such a chicken baked in the oven with teriyaki sauce, stuffed with rice and mushrooms, will become a real "queen of dishes" on the table.
For cooking you will need:
- headless chicken and offal;
- a glass of rice;
- 300 grams of any mushrooms;
- greens;
- teriyaki sauce;
- salt and pepper;
- clove of garlic and a small onion.
Cooking Stuffed Chicken
- Cut the chicken along the breast, remove the breast bones carefully so as not to damage the integrity of the carcass.
- Boil the rice, rinse under running water, leave to drain in a colander.
- Cut mushrooms and onions, fry in a pan. Three minutes before cooking, add chopped garlic.
- Mix mushrooms with rice, salt to taste, add chopped greens.
- Put the mixture of rice and mushrooms in the carcass, sew the breast.
- Pour the chicken over the sauce, let it marinate, puncture the hole in the thighs and breast with a toothpick, turn the chicken over half an hour later, so that the second part is soaked in teriyaki, leave for another 30 minutes.
- Place the chicken on a baking sheet, set to bake for 1-1.5 hours (depending on the size of the carcass) at 180 degrees.
Before serving, remove the threads, put the rice with mushrooms in a separate dish.
Chicken in teriyaki sauce in the oven is the most delicious dish, we recommend you try it.