Yakitori Chicken

Ingredients

• Sake

  Alcoholic beverage, made from rice

  ½ cup or 120g

• Soy sauce

  Made from soy (tamari)

  ½ cup or 144g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  1 tbsp or 13g

• Garlic

  Raw

  1 cloves, minced or 3g

• Ginger root

  Raw

  2 slices or 4g

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  4 breast fillet or 472g

• Leeks

  (bulb and lower leaf-portion), raw

  3 leek or 267g

Directions

1. In a medium dish, mix together the sake, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, and ginger. Cube and add chicken, and allow to marinate for 15 minutes.
2. Preheat your oven's broiler. Grease six metal skewers, and thread alternately with 3 pieces of chicken and 2 pieces of leek (white/light green part only, cut into 1/2inch pieces). Place on a baking sheet or broiling pan, and brush with the marinade.
3. Broil for about 5 minutes, baste again, then broil for another 5 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Discard remaining marinade. Enjoy!