Chicken Teriyaki

I had a hankering for Chicken Teriyaki and I have not made it in a long time. I rummaged through my recipes and finally found this tucked away. The teriyaki marinade is so easy to make and doing so is not only cheaper than store bought, but it is not loaded with a bunch of ingredients whose names are hard to pronounce! The marinade takes about 15 minutes to put together and whatever you choose to marinate only needs to sit in the marinade for about a half hour! So let’s get to it!  Here is a preview the  work in progress…

Preview during the cooking process

Marinade Ingredients
1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup cooking sherry
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of orange juice
3 – 1/4″ slices of ginger
4 cloves of garlic

Add the first four ingredients to a ziplock bag and shake this until the sugar dissolves. Next peel the skin off the ginger, cut into quarters and mince this into the bag. Peel the garlic and mince this into the bag as well. Shake the bag and let it sit for about 10 minutes. The flavors will meld.

Marinade is ready to use!

Now I prepared this for use with chicken, but you can use this marinade for pork or beef as well. The choice is yours! If you decide to do chunks of chicken, pork or beef for grilling, then while the meat is resting in the marinade, for a half hour, soak wooden skewers in water so that they will not burn on the grill. Once on the grill baste with the marinade periodically. Cook the meat to your liking. See what I do with the remaining marinade as described below…

You can also cook the meat in a skillet as I did. And, here is how I did this:

Chicken Teriyaki Ingredients
Teriyaki marinade
5 boneless chicken thighs
2 TBS peanut oil

Cut up the chicken into chunks.

Cut up chicken

Add the chunks to the bag of marinade.

Marinating chicken

After a half hour, add the peanut oil to a skillet. Pre-heat the oven to 265 degrees. Then heat the oil to smoking hot and then add the chicken and reserve the marinade. Stir fry the chicken until it is almost done.

Chicken is cooking

Remove the chicken from the pan and place in oven safe dish

The chicken now goes into the oven

and cover with foil. Place this in the oven. This allows the chicken to cook a bit more, and keeps it warm.

Then add the remaining marinade to the skillet.

Simmer the marinade

Heat over medium heat until the marinade is reduced by half and you will notice that it has thickened a bit.

Here is the cooked down marinade

Notice the change in color? Next, remove the chicken from the oven, and add it back to the pan.

Add the chicken back to the pan

Heat through.

Serve this over jasmine rice!

Serve over rice!

Enjoy!