Easiest Teriyaki Chicken Recipe 

Today I will prepare for dinner the easiest teriyaki chicken recipe, a real treat, in which I will play a little with the flavours and ingredients. I will bring to my plate the tastes and spices of Asia on a typical Italian side dish, namely tagliatelle.

I will use commercially bought teriyaki sauce in this recipe, but I will enrich its flavour by adding some extra ingredients such as ginger or bamboo shoots. It is not a difficult recipe, in my opinion, anyone can make it and even customize it to their own taste.

If you don’t want to cook chicken today, I recommend the king prawn noodles recipe, another Asian recipe in which I used teriyaki sauce.

But let’s start with the ingredients!

Ingredients

I chose to use chicken drumsticks because I had them in the fridge, but you can also use chicken thighs or chicken breast. But because I have a few chicken wings left from another recipe, I put them on as well, but the basic idea is that I used about 750 g.

Asian flavours are present through the 180 g teriyaki sauce, about 100 g bamboo shoots and a little black soy sauce, about three tablespoons.

And to be the complete recipe, we add some vegetables such as two shallots, half a kapia pepper, half a leek, three cloves of garlic, one hot chilli pepper and a little ginger, about 25 grams. I will also use some Chesnut mushrooms about 250 grams and let’s not forget a few sprigs of spring onions that we will use at the end for decoration.

Preparing the Ingredients

I start with the chicken legs that I left with the skin on because I like the taste of fried skin and I think it offers a touch of flavour. After I wiped them with a paper towel, I seasoned with sea salt and freshly ground pepper and sprinkled them with a spoonful of flour.

We wash the vegetables and peel them, then chop them finely, starting with the prawns, garlic, ginger, chilli pepper and leek.

I dusted the mushrooms with a brush and then sliced them, and the bamboo buds that were already cut into sticks, I cut them into smaller pieces.

How to Make the Easiest Teriyaki Chicken Recipe?

To give you an idea of how I want to make this recipe, I tell you that I will first fry the chicken drumsticks, put them aside, then fry the vegetables, put the legs back and simmer them all together.

So first heat two tablespoons of oil in a pan and fry the chicken drumsticks, until they catch a crust and turn a golden colour.

Remove the drumsticks and put them aside, while in the same pan we put a tablespoon of olive oil and a tablespoon of butter to melt.

After the butter has melted, add the chopped ingredients to the frying pan and fry over medium heat, stirring occasionally.

After frying them for two or three minutes, add the chopped kapia pepper and fry for another three minutes over medium heat.

Season with a teaspoon of sea salt and add three teaspoons of black soy sauce and then put back the chicken drumsticks.

Add two cups of water and simmer for about twenty minutes, if you want you can put a lid on top to keep the flavours inside and to make it faster.

Now we can add the sliced mushrooms and cook them for another ten minutes until the mushrooms soften a little.

Next, come the bamboo shoots and teriyaki sauce. The bamboo shoots should not cook too long because they should remain slightly crispy.

Simmer for another five minutes without lid and that’s it the easiest teriyaki chicken recipe, ready to serve.

Serving This Dish

As I said, we will serve this dish with tagliatelle pasta, which we previously boiled in salted water, and on top, we sprinkled with chopped spring onions.

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