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Yakitori being cooked
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Yakitori (焼き鳥, やきとり), lit. grilled bird, is a Japanese type of skewered chicken. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1112x1590, 1228 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Yakitori ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1112x1590, 1228 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Yakitori ... A skewer is also a tactic in chess. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


It is made from several bite-sized pieces of chicken meat, or chicken offal, skewered on a bamboo skewer and barbecued, usually over charcoal. Scrapple sandwich at the Delaware state fair Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. ... Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. ...


Diners ordering yakitori usually have a choice of having it served with simply salt (and sometimes lemon juice) or with tare sauce, which is basically made up of mirin, sweet sake, soy sauce and sugar. The sauce is applied on the skewered meat and is grilled until delicately cooked and is served with the tare sauce as a dip. A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) Salt covering the floor of Bad Water in Death Valley, CA, the lowest point in the US. A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral... Binomial name Citrus × limon (L.) Burm. ... Mirin (味醂) is an essential condiment of the Japanese cuisine with a slightly sweet taste. ... Sake barrels at Itsukushima Shrine. ... Soy sauce (US) or soya sauce is a fermented sauce made from soybeans (soya beans), roasted grain, water and salt. ...


Yakitori is a very popular dish in Japan. Many working people grab a yakitori and a beer from yakitori stalls on the way home from work. Yakitori is also a common, cheap accompaniment to beer in izakayas. A selection of bottled beers A selection of cask beers Beer is the worlds oldest[1] and most popular[2] alcoholic beverage, selling more than 133 billion litres (35 billion gallons) per year - producing total global revenues of $331. ... typical food at an izakaya An izakaya (居酒屋) is a common kind of Japanese bar or restaurant, also found in cosmopolitan cities throughout the world, popular in Japan for after-work drinking. ...


Strictly speaking, the term "yakitori" refers to those consisting only of various chicken parts and vegetables. Similarly skewered grilled food made with other ingredients such as beef, pork, fish or seafood is usually available at yakitori establishments and are known as kushiyaki (串焼、くしやき), lit. skewer grill, in Japan. However, outside of Japan, and even in some areas of Japan (in particular Kyushu, Higashimatsuyama city and parts of Hokkaidō) these would also be referred to as yakitori. Kyushu region, Japan Kyushu (九州 kyÅ«shÅ«) is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. ... Higashimatsuyama (東松山市 Higashimatsuyama-shi; literally East Matsuyama) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ... Hokkaidō   (北海道, literal meaning: North Sea Route, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo and Yesso, is the second largest island and largest prefecture of Japan. ...

from Akiyoshi Yakitori restaurant
from Akiyoshi Yakitori restaurant

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Common yakitori dishes

  • shou niku (正肉) (lit. "proper meat"), chicken thigh pieces - "standard yakitori", usually with skin
  • sasami (ささみ), skinless chicken breast pieces
  • negima (ねぎ間), alternating pieces of chicken thigh and scallion
  • nankotsu (軟骨), chicken cartilage
  • hatsu (ハツ), chicken heart
  • rebā (レバー), liver
  • sunagimo (砂肝), chicken gizzard
  • tsukune (つくね), chicken meatballs
  • torikawa (とりかわ) chicken skin, grilled until crispy
  • tebasaki (手羽先), chicken wing
  • ikada (筏) (lit. raft), Japanese scallion, with two skewers to prevent rotation

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Common kushiyaki dishes

  • atsuage tofu (厚揚げとうふ, deep-fried tofu)
  • enoki maki (エノキ巻き, enoki mushrooms wrapped in slices of pork)
  • pīman (ピーマン, green pepper)
  • asuparabēkon (アスパラベーコン, asparagus wrapped in bacon)
  • butabara (豚ばら, pork belly)

Tofu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), also called doufu (the Chinese Pinyin spelling often used in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin[1], made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ...

Similar dishes

Brochette (French), Espetada (Portuguese), Satay (Malay), Shashlik (Russian), Shish kebab (Turkish), Souvlaki, Mici (Romanian) or Kalamaki (Greek) In cooking, en brochette refers to food cooked, and sometimes served, on brochettes, or skewers. ... The espetada (plural: espetadas) is a typical Portuguese dish made of large chunks of beef rubbed in garlic and salt, skewered onto a bay leaf stick and left to grill over smouldering wood chips. ... Grilled beef satay. ... Look up Malay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1. ... Shish kebab (şişkebabı; also pronounced Kabab or kabob) means skewer of meat in Persian. ... Souvlaki Platters for take-out This article is about the Greek food. ... Mititei (IPA: ) or mici (IPA: ) (Romanian for little or small) is a traditional Romanian dish, a kind of grilled meatballs made from beef (usually mixed with mutton and pork meat), which contain garlic, black pepper, savory and sometimes a touch of paprika. ...


Other meanings

Among Japanese aviation engineers and pilots, birds sucked into a jet engine are referred to as yakitori.


A "Yakitori" tile also features in Japanese mahjong. It is a flat tessera with a picture of a skewered sparrow on it. Each player starts the game with a Yakitori tile on the table to his right. On completing a hand the player may remove his "Yakitori" tile. Any player who fails to complete a hand and who therefore still has his "Yakitori" tile on the table at the end of the game has to pay a fine - he has been skewered like a sparrow on a grill!


External links

  • The Yakitori rule in Japanese Mahjong See a photo of a Yakitori tile.

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