Teriyaki pork is a truly international dish. He is loved by connoisseurs of Asian cuisine (Chinese, Thai, Korean), and admirers of European classics. This dish is prepared simply, it does not require special expenses, but the result is so good that it is usually referred to a festive rather than everyday cuisine. Prepare pork with aromatic sauce for a solemn feast, and guests will appreciate your work. And a regular everyday dinner will turn this delicacy into a real celebration of taste.
What are teriyaki?
If you think about the etymology of the word, you can find very unusual facts. The word is of Japanese origin, but in the homeland it does not mean sauce at all, but a processing method. Literally, "teriyaki" translates as "fried and shiny." The whole secret is in adding sugar, which caramelizes when heated, creating a magnificent glossy surface. Every self-respecting Japanese knows how to make a wonderful sauce (or maybe not one), ideally suited to this technology of cooking meat, fish, vegetables and seafood.
In the West, this word is usually called sauces created on the basis of soy sauce, sugar and a small amount of Japanese alcohol - mirin or sake. Chefs from the countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as their colleagues from the States and Europe, do not consider buying a ready-made sauce to be a bad idea. This is exactly what we will consider in our selection of recipes.
If you love meat and are close to the motives of the magic cuisine of Asia, you will certainly appreciate how great Teriyaki sauce is combined with pork.
Choose meat
For our purposes, a tenderloin is suitable, which can be baked in the oven with a piece or cut into steaks. If you have pulp from the shoulder or back of the carcass, cut it into pieces. Ribs will also go perfectly with this sauce. The abdominal part with abundant layers of fat is also suitable for this dish.
In a word, you can use any meat in which there are no uncomfortable bones. Pork in teriyaki sauce is good anyway. The main condition is that the meat must be fresh and of high quality.
Additional ingredients
Very often sesame seeds are added to dishes from teriyaki. They contrast in color, further emphasizing the dense caramel shade, and also create an interesting texture. The sauce is absolutely homogeneous.
Delicious and aromatic pork is obtained in teriyaki sauce, the recipe of which contains pineapples. Their harsh taste is well felt thanks to expressive tart notes.
You can complement the dish with your favorite vegetables.
Frying pan
This is a simple recipe, but its result will be an unusually tender and aromatic pork. In teriyaki sauce, it must not only be put out, but also marinated first - this is the main secret of success.
To prepare 500 g, you need a little more than 5 tbsp. l sauce. Smear it in sliced pieces and leave for 3 hours. Heat oil, olive or sesame in a pan. Put the pieces in one layer and fry on both sides almost until ready. Pour in the rest of the sauce and let it boil. For beauty, when serving, you can squeeze sesame seeds.
Grilling on the grill
Teriyaki pork cooked over coals is a great picnic idea. If you put large pieces of meat in a pike perch and grease it with sauce before going to nature, then the time you spend on the road and making a fire will be enough to soak everything. It remains only to fry the steaks on the grill. The remaining sauce can be distributed over the meat at the very end of cooking. A great addition to the treat will be baked potatoes, Korean spicy-sweet salads, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.
Teriyaki pork with vegetables
For the next recipe you will need an oven. You can use bell pepper (especially good thick-walled, different colors), eggplant, carrots, zucchini, asparagus, asparagus beans. Great for this recipe is a tenderloin or large pieces of meat from the back. For 4 servings, you will need 600 g of pork.
Cut the meat into 8 pieces about the size of a palm. Lightly beat off with a blunt hammer without spikes, lay in a bowl. Add 4-6 tbsp. l teriyaki sauce and 1 tsp. lemon juice. Leave to marinate for 2 hours.
Cut the vegetables into strips so that the length is slightly more than the width of the chop. Squeeze the excess sauce from the meat, lay a handful of vegetables in the middle, trying to pick different ones. Roll it tight and lay it on the deco, closer to one another. You can add a piece of bacon or cheese to each roll. Pour the remaining sauce over the rolls. In a preheated oven, the meal can be cooked in about 35 minutes.
Serving to the table
Whatever recipe you choose, the dish will turn out with an oriental character. It will look very organic in flat square plates in the Japanese style. As a side dish, pork with teriyaki is usually served with boiled friable rice.