Pattaya Mail - Vol. XVII No. 30 - Friday July 24 - July 30, 2009 Dining Out & Entertainment

Japanese grilled chicken is BBQ’d several times, with steeping in a marinade in between. The sugar and ginger in the marinade gives the chicken a very different taste, almost caramelizing the outer surface. This is a traditional Japanese dish, but all the ingredients are available here, even the sake.

Ingredients             serves 2-3
Chicken breast fillets    6
Sake                           ½ cup
Dark soya sauce          1/3 cup
Sugar                          60 gm
Powdered ginger          2 tspns
Cucumber                   1 small
Salt to taste
Skewers                     6

Cooking Method
Soak the skewers in water for 10 minutes. Wash chicken breasts, and cut into bite sized pieces and then thread on to skewers. Place over a charcoal BBQ or under the grill until partially cooked.
Mix sake, soya sauce and sugar and pour into a wide flat bowl. Lay skewered chicken in the marinade for five minutes, then turn over and leave for another five minutes.
Now return to the BBQ and grill for another two minutes each side. After this, return to the marinade and repeat the marinade process. Now complete the final BBQ grilling while brushing the remaining marinade over the skewered chicken, to produce a dark shiny glaze. Sprinkle with the powdered ginger.
Shred the cucumber and sprinkle with salt and serve the chicken skewers on small plates and garnish each with a mound of cucumber.