Tsukune Meatballs
Tsukune Meatballs

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tsukune meatballs. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tsukune (Japanese Chicken Meatballs) is a regular Yakitori dish items. Soft and bouncy chicken meatballs are skewered and chargrilled with sweet soy sauce, i.e. yakitori sauce. The key to my soft and juicy meatballs is the grated onion and the amount of fat in the chicken mince (ground chicken).

Tsukune Meatballs is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Tsukune Meatballs is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tsukune meatballs using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tsukune Meatballs:
  1. Take 300 g minced chicken
  2. Prepare 2 sprigs spring onion, finely chopped
  3. Make ready 1 small knob ginger, grated
  4. Get 1 clove garlic, grated
  5. Take 2 tsp miso paste
  6. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  7. Get 1 tsp sesame oil
  8. Take 1/2 cup shoyu
  9. Prepare 1/2 cup mirin
  10. Take 1/4 cup cooking sake
  11. Get 1/4 cup water
  12. Get 2 tsp sugar

The meatballs are incredibly flavorful and I guarantee your guests will have no problem eating one after another! Grill the Tsukune chicken meatballs on skewers for a couple minutes on each side to get nicely browned. Once all Tsukune chicken meatballs are browned nicely, turn the heat off and set aside. Brush with the special Teriyaki sauce to serve.

Steps to make Tsukune Meatballs:
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine chicken mince, spring onion, ginger, garlic, miso paste, salt and sesame oil. Mix well and roll into little balls. Set aside in fridge.
  2. In a small saucepan, combine shoyu, mirin, sake, water and sugar. Bring to boil and simmer until sauce is thick and syrupy. Set aside.
  3. Remove meatballs from the fridge. In a hot pan, add some oil and pan fry meatballs until golden brown. You can also put them under the grill for 15 mins, or until cooked through. Drizzle over the sauce and serve.

Along the way, I've simplified the process even further so you can broil them in the oven any time you're craving these umami-packed bites! Chicken meatballs called tsukune are a Japanese-restaurant favorite–they're essentially a chicken sausage mixture flavored with garlic and ginger. Use flat sword-shaped skewers instead of traditional round bamboo skewers to keep the meatballs from slipping when you try to turn them. Serve with bowls of steamed rice on the side. When the meat is cooked, pour the teriyaki sauce and cook until the sauce is almost gone, turning them over once or twice.

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