Recipe and source notes

Chicken Meatball Yakitori

4 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup sake
  • 5 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup low sodium chicken broth
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 pound ground chicken
  • 2 teaspoons grated ginger
  • 2 tablespoons chopped scallion

Make it step by step

  1. Heat broiler. Combine sake, 4 tablespoons soy sauce, the broth and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook until reduced to 1/2 cup.
  2. Mince garlic, grate 1/2 teaspoon yellow zest from lemon. Combine garlic, zest, chicken, ginger, scallion and 1 tablespoon soy sauce.
  3. Shape into 16 balls. Dip each into the sauce. String them onto skewers and put on a rack in a broiler pan. Broil until brown (about 4 minutes/side). Bring sauce back to boil. Serve skewers over rice; pour sauce over meatballs.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Foodista by Sheri Wetherell, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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