Yakitori

What is Yakitori?

Yakitori is literally Japanese chicken on a skewer. According to Japanese tradition, the meat is skewered onto a kushi, which is a roasting spit made of bamboo or steel. Then the skewers are grilled over charcoal fire and preferably flavored with tare sauce.

For yakitori, chicken is used in the broadest sense. The most well-known (especially in the Netherlands) are chicken thighs (momo), chicken breast (sasami), and chicken wings (tebasaki), but in Japan, people also enjoy, for example, chicken gizzards, hearts, tails, and cartilage.

Butchery’s Yakitori

Admittedly: the products in this category are not all yakitori as intended in Japan. We also easily make Yakitori beef skewers. In Japan, they have a different name for it, namely Kushiyaki. In the Netherlands, we mainly know yakitori as glazed skewers, so we bend the rules a bit and have filled this category with meat that is perfectly suited for this method of preparation.

How to Make Yakitori?

Making yakitori is not difficult, but it's a matter of having the right ingredients at home. What do you need?

• Chicken (can be whatever you want. Even chicken skin, which is very tasty, by the way)
• Sate sticks (8 pieces)
• Mirin (sweet rice wine) (8 tbsp)
• Sake (4 tbsp)
• Soy sauce (8 tbsp)
• Brown caster sugar (1 tbsp)
• Salt

Cut the chicken into cubes, thread onto the skewers, and season with salt. Then cover and place in the refrigerator. Next, put all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then lower the heat and let it simmer for about 30 minutes until a syrupy substance forms. Now take out the skewers and grill them on a baking tray, in the pan, or on the BBQ. Baste the yakitori all around several times during cooking so that you have a nice sticky end product. Sprinkle with some fresh green onions and sesame seeds when serving, and you have an amazing dish!

Buy Yakitori Online?

Buying yakitori online is now a breeze! Choose your meat, add it to your shopping cart, and place your order. You can choose your delivery time. If you order before 10:00, you can have it at home the same evening. But we also deliver during the day, so the choice is yours. You receive your meat flashfrozen with optimal preservation of nutritional values. So it can easily go back into the freezer if needed. It doesn't get any easier than that!