Miso Yakitori

Yakitori, grilled skewered-chicken dish, is usually seasoned with either salt (shio) or soy sauce-based sauce (tare), but here is another option.  Brush the chicken with sweet miso paste while grilling –  it gives the shine and great sweet miso taste to the chicken 🙂

<Miso Yakitori> serves 4

• 4 fillets chicken thigh
• spring onion stalks / cucumber
• 3 tbs red miso paste
• 1.5 tbs sake (cooking wine)
• 1.5 tbs mirin (sweet cooking wine)
• 1.5 tbs sugar

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1. Soak the skewers in water for 30 minutes.
2. Cut the chicken into cubes.  Chop onion and cucumber into 2cm.
3. Skewer the chicken and spring onion/cucumber alternatively.
4. Mix the miso, sake, mirin and sugar.
5. Heat a grill pan and spray oil.  Place the chicken skewers and grill one side, then flip it around.
6. Start brushing the miso mixture to the chicken.  (miso gets burned easily)  Brush one side, then flip it around, brush another side, … continue until the chicken is cooked.
7. Serve with steamed rice ♪ or a glass or beer.