Tender Chicken Breast Rice Bowl
- 2 Chicken breast meat
- 1 tbsp Sake
- 1 tbsp Soy sauce
- 1 Ichimi spice (only if you like it spicy)
- 1 Katakuriko
- 1/3 Bamboo shoots cooked in water
- 1/2 bunch Greens (Komatsuna, bok choy, etc)
- 50 ml Sake
- 50 ml Mirin
- 50 ml Soy sauce
- 50 ml Water
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 2 bowlsful Plain cooked rice
- 1 Chili threads (optional)
- 1 piece Beef suet (or vegetable oil)
- Take the excess fat and skin off the chicken breasts.
- Cover with a sheet of plastic wrap and pound out flat with a rolling pin.
- Slice the bamboo shoot, and cut up the greens into bite-sized pieces.
- When both pieces are flattened, put them on a plate and add the ingredients marked .
- Coat well and leave to marinate for 10 minutes or so.
- After they have marinated, pat the chicken dry with paper towels and coat lightly with katakuriko.
- Heat up a frying pan and put in the piece of beef suet.
- When the suet has melted add the chicken and brown on both sides.
- When both sides are browned add the sake and mirin and boil off the alcohol.
- (You don't have to light it with a match or anything, just boil it.)
- Add the sugar, soy sauce and water.
- Add the sliced bamboo shoot, and continue simmering while occasionally shaking the pan to coat the chicken with the sauce until the sauce has reduced down to about half.
- When the sauce has reduced and become a bit thick, add the greens.
- When the greens are limp, turn the heat off.
- Take the chicken out and cut into bite sized pieces.
- Put the rice into bowls, and top with the chicken, bamboo shoot and greens, and pour on the sauce.
- Top with chili threads.
- Sprinkle sansho pepper to taste and enjoy.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153280-tender-chicken-breast-rice-bowl (may not work)