For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken
For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, for bento! bite-sized teriyaki chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life.

Usually chicken teriyaki (or chikiteri as it's abbreviated sometimes) is made from whole chicken thigh pieces, but I prefer to cut the meat up in advance for bento use - the smaller pieces cook faster, and I don't have to deal with slicing hot cooked meat early in the morning. The chicken can be marinated from the night before or just briefly in the morning. I coated the chicken thigh with katakuriko and fried it so that the flavor would penetrate the meat.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have for bento! bite-sized teriyaki chicken using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken:
  1. Take 1/2 Chicken thigh
  2. Prepare 1 dash Salt
  3. Take 1 dash Pepper
  4. Get 1 Katakuriko
  5. Get 1 Vegetable oil
  6. Take For teriyaki sauce:
  7. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp Sugar
  8. Prepare 1 tsp Mirin
  9. Make ready 2 tsp Mentsuyu (3x concentrate)

Chicken can be made the night ahead so that you can eat some for dinner and leave some for next day's Bento. School lunch made easy with this Chicken Teriyaki Bento, serve along with cucumber salad, apple bunnies, tomatoes, and furikake on top of rice. Cooking a double batch of chicken teriyaki for dinner makes your bento making so much faster. It is scaled for a single lunchbox (bento box) sized serving.

Steps to make For Bento! Bite-Sized Teriyaki Chicken:
  1. Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces, and lightly season with salt and pepper. Mix the teriyaki sauce ingredients, and set aside.
  2. Coat both sides of Step 1 chicken with katakuriko. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, arrange the chicken, cover with a lid, and cook over medium heat.
  3. When the colour of the chicken starts to change, flip, cover with the lid again, and fry.
  4. Open up the lid, turn up the heat a little bit higher, and fry until the surface becomes crispy.
  5. If there is excess liquid or fat left in the pan, wipe off with paper towels.
  6. Turn down the heat a little bit, pour in the Step 1 teriyaki sauce while mixing. If the heat is too strong, the sauce might get burnt.
  7. Flip the chicken and coat it with the sauce. When the sauce starts to get thickened, turn off the heat. Transfer onto a plate, and put in a bento box once it's cooled down.
  8. Frozen side dish for bento recipes: "Chicken Tsukune", "Tatsuta-age made with chicken breasts"

https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/155997-fried-chicken-breast-tatsuta-age https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/154330-chicken-tsukune-patties-for-bento

  1. "Youlinji Chinese style chicken made with chicken breasts", "Tonkatsu made with thinly sliced pork"

https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/146545-freeze-this-for-your-bento-pork-offcut-tonkatsu https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/146314-taco-rice-on-toast

  1. "Marinated in a special sauce pork yakiniku", "Deep-fried white fish, flounder"

https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/146537-freezable-marinated-pork-yaki-niku https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/146684-fried-white-flounder-for-bento

Add this to a big bowl of rice and veggies, maybe with some Japanese type pickles, and you have a great lunch! This recipe is not a quick recipe, though; cooking time includes marinating time. I would suggest starting the chicken in the marinade, then starting your rice. Edo Japan - Chicken Teriyaki Bento Box. How does this food fit into your daily goals?

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