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“Teriyaki” Chicken

Hello friends! I hope you have been enjoying your week so far.  Work has been crazy as usual and I have been craving a lot of sweet stuff. For a self-proclaimed savoury tooth, this is quite unusual.

Probably it’s that time of the month… you know, more bitchy than usual…haha!

“Enough Emily, we are not interested in your reproduction cycle! Especially not on a food blog for heaven’s sake!!!”

Too much information, I get it.

Speaking of sweet stuff, I have also purchased a bottle of Pepsi (note – it’s not a habit). The good thing is I have kept it long enough until it has gone flat. A good sign? Yes (this means I haven’t drank often enough that it has the chance to go flat).

Before I was about to toss it away, my inner strict-Asian-upbringing-self has told me not to be wasteful. This  also led to the idea of turning the flat Pepsi (and soy sauce) into teriyaki sauce. An inspiration came from  the Coca-cola chicken that my friend used to cook for me in my college days. I remember the sauce turned out to be sweet, sticky and savoury – the similar traits that attract me to teriyaki chicken, but minus the sake and mirin which I don’t have in my pantry.

“Teriyaki Chicken”

Serves two people

Ingredients:-

  • 500g /18 oz  (about 4 pieces)chicken thigh fillets, diced
  • 4 cloves of garlic, grated
  • 1 inch thick ginger, grated
  • 1 cup Pepsi/Coca-cola (it doesn’t have to be flat)
  • Light soy sauce to taste
  • White pepper
  • Sesame oil (about half a tablespoon)
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted

Methods:

1. Peel ginger and garlic. Grate them onto a bowl and set aside.

2. Dice the chicken thighs.

3. Heat a stir fry pan on medium flame, and dry toast 1 tbsp of sesame seeds until brown lightly. Remove from pan on a flat plate to cool.

4. Add grated ginger, garlic and sesame oil over medium flame until it sizzles.

5. Add chicken and white pepper. Stir to combine the chicken with the ginger-garlic mixture. Brown the chicken over medium heat.

6. Remove the chicken and 1 cup of Pepsi. Allow the mixture to cook on high heat until thickens (above half the original amount).

7. Add chicken and season with soy sauce to taste. Over low heat, simmer the chicken until the sauce thickens a little more.

8. Sprinkle the toasted sesame seeds just before serving. Best eaten with steamed rice.

“Teriyaki Chicken”

Serves two people

Ingredients:-

  • 500g /18 oz  (about 4 pieces)chicken thigh fillets, diced
  • 4 cloves of garlic, grated
  • 1 inch thick ginger, grated
  • 1 cup Pepsi/Coca-cola (it doesn’t have to be flat)
  • Light soy sauce to taste
  • White pepper
  • Sesame oil (about half a tablespoon)
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted

Methods:

  1. Peel ginger and garlic. Grate them onto a bowl and set aside.
  2.  Dice the chicken thighs.
  3. Heat a stir fry pan on medium flame, and dry toast 1 tbsp of sesame seeds until brown lightly. Remove from pan on a flat plate to cool.
  4. Add grated ginger, garlic and sesame oil over medium flame until it sizzles.
  5. Add chicken and white pepper. Stir to combine the chicken with the ginger-garlic mixture. Brown the chicken over medium heat.
  6. Remove the chicken and 1 cup of Pepsi. Allow the mixture to cook on high heat until thickens (above half the original amount).
  7. Add chicken and season with soy sauce to taste. Over low heat, simmer the chicken until the sauce thickens a little more.
  8. Sprinkle the toasted sesame seeds just before serving. Best eaten with steamed rice.


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Comments

  1. Kankana says

    April 5, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    wow with COLA ?? i never knew that. Pass me bowl please .. i wanna eat that!

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  2. kadeeja says

    April 6, 2012 at 5:58 am

    helloc cheff, this is my first visit to ur site and i jus love ur recipes like anything 🙂 wish there is som feature to save dis recipe for future reference like in ‘ http://www.foodspunched.com ‘ . why dont you submit your blog with them so that people like me can come to your recipes in future also!! and the best thing about ‘foodspunched’ is that u have to submit ur blog only once. and they will fetch ur feed when ever you make new posts. u can submit ur blog through ‘Punch yourself’ page in main menu after u register with them.

    any way good job. expecting wonderful recipes like this in future also 🙂 all the best for your blog 🙂

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  3. Angie@Angie's Recipes says

    April 6, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    This looks so appetizing and flavourful. I would love some more rice, please!

    Reply
  4. Wilson says

    April 27, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    I made this and my girlfriend enjoyed it quite a bit. I think a good tidbit would be to only cook the chicken with the garlic ginger mix, a little more than halfway, so that it doesn’t overcook after step #7.

    Reply
    • Wilson says

      April 27, 2012 at 5:37 pm

      Also, Emily, you lifesaver you, thank you for posting this recipe. It’s a lovely dish and takes very little time to prepare.

      Reply
      • Emily says

        April 30, 2012 at 12:40 pm

        Hi Wilson,

        I’m glad that you and your girlfriend have enjoyed it. Hope you scored some love points from her haha! And thanks for sharing the tip! 🙂

        Reply

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    […] ‘Teriyaki’ is in quotes up there because, as you’ve probably already guessed, there is no teriyaki sauce in this dish. Emily at Fuss Free Cooking instead simmers the chicken in a mixture of Coke, soy sauce and garlic. Get the full recipe here. […]

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