Chicken Tsukune Wrapped Around Okra
- 10 small Okra
- 200 grams Ground chicken
- 1/4 of an onion Finely chopped onion
- 5 grams Panko
- 1 tbsp plus Milk
- 1 tsp Chicken soup stock granules
- 1 tsp Oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp Katakuriko
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Sake
- 100 ml Mentsuyu
- 1 tsp Katakuriko
- Soak the panko in milk until completely softened.
- Dissolve the katakuriko in the mentsuyu sauce.
- Scrub the okra to remove the hairy bristles and lightly blanch in salted water (for about a minute).
- Drain and let cool.
- Remove the stem.
- Combine the ground chicken, , onion, soup stock granules, oyster sauce and katakuriko, and knead together.
- Divide the meat mixture into 10 portions, and wrap around each okra.
- This is easy if you put work over plastic wrap.
- Heat oil in a pan, and add the chicken okra.
- Pan fry over medium heat until browned on both sides, while wiping off the excess oil.
- The photo shows double the amount of the recipe.
- When the tsukune are browned, sprinkle sake and cover with a sheet of aluminum foil.
- Steam-cook over medium-high heat.
- When the chicken has cooked through and the sake has just about evaporated, turn off heat and add the mentsuyu sauce with katakuriko.
- Turn the heat on to medium low, and simmer until the sauce has thickened.
- Done!
ground chicken, onion, milk, chicken soup stock granules, oyster sauce, katakuriko, sake, katakuriko
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/170754-chicken-tsukune-wrapped-around-okra (may not work)