Dashi Butter Chicken | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with dashi butter chicken. That's right, one of my many hobbies is collecting rare and exotic pan sauces. And this one, inspired by a chicken wing recipe and a pork belly recipe, is my newest prize possession.

And I'm beyond excited to show you just how simple it is to make. And the first thing we'll do is mix up a little bit of a marinade for our chicken breasts, which will include some finely minced garlic, plus some finely minced ginger.

And we usually use fresh, but this time I went with pickled ginger, and it was really nice. And then to those, we will add some soy sauce, as well as some saki, which is Japanese rice wine. We'll also do a touch of mirin, which is a sweet Japanese style cooking wine.

And by the way, back in the day, you would have had to hunt for some of these ingredients, but I'm happy to report they're very easy to find at the store these days. And then we'll finish up

with a little touch of sesame oil, a little bit of white sugar, and of course, a few shakes of cayenne. And that's it. We'll take a fork or a whisk or whatever, and we'll give this a quick mix. And that's it. Once mixed, we'll set that aside.

And we'll move on to prep our chicken breast, which is going to be nothing more than giving them a little bit of a pounding just to flatten them out a little bit and make them a little more uniform. And the easiest way