Teriyaki Chicken Bento is a simple and easy Bento you can make for you and your family. Pan-fried chicken coated with a sweet and salty sauce is good hot and also at room temperature. It is a great dish for a Bento lunch. Chicken can be made the night ahead so that you can eat some for dinner and leave some for next day’s Bento. Just heat chicken up in the morning, and add lettuce and cherry tomatoes along with Steamed Rice in the Bento box. If you are an early bird, you can of course make the whole thing in the morning. This recipe is from our cook book Simply Bento: Delicious Box Lunch Ideas for Healthy Portions to Go. There are over 140 Bento recipes for both main and side dishes. Simply Bento is available online and at book stores.
Teriyaki Chicken Leg is braised chicken legs in Teriyaki sauce. It has been a favorite Christmas dinner in Japan that is made at home or bought from stores.
Buri Teriyaki is Yellowtail fish cooked and coated with Teriyaki Sauce. Although a lot of people may think of Teriyaki mainly with chicken, fish Teriyaki may be eaten more often in Japan.
Teriyaki means “grilled with a shine,” and it is an important cooking technique for meat and fish. Sugar in teriyaki sauce gives a shine to food which makes it not only tasty, but also look more appetizing. Japanese Teriyaki sauce is not as sweet as some Teriyaki dishes from restaurants here. If you’re used to the taste of that and like it, adjust the amount of sugar and Mirin.
You may know this already from our Chicken Teriyaki recipe, but Teriyaki is not the name of the sauce but rather a cooking method used in Japanese cuisine. Meat or fish is grilled and basted with sauce for a nice shine, or it can be cooked and mixed with the sauce in a frying pan.
Hamburgers are a very popular fast food in Japan just like in the US. However, Japanese people like adding their own flavor to this western favorite. Sweet Teriyaki sauce goes well with grilled (or pan fried ) beef and tangy Japanese mayo. The Teriyaki Burger is a popular Japanese spin on the American classic.
Just like Chicken Teriyaki, Salmon Teriyaki uses sweet and salty Teriyaki sauce. It doesn’t take any time to make this dish, but it’s still super yummy and healthy! Salmon Teriyaki is the perfect main dish for a busy weekday dinner.
Chicken Teriyaki is a beloved Japanese dish, and it has grown in popularity beyond Japan, especially in the U.S. Sweet and savory teriyaki flavor is appealing to many Americans, and it is a staple dish at Japanese restaurants in any town now. Chicken Teriyaki is easy to make at home with simple ingredients.