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Toriniku Yawata-maki Grilled Chicken and Burdock Rolls

Name: Toriniku Yawata-maki Grilled Chicken and Burdock Rolls
Total time: 3 h 27 min
Yield: Serves 4 (2 rolls)
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 medium burdock roots (gobo), or asparagus or parboiled celery, scrubbed; 1 tbsp rice vinegar, for the cooking water; 450 ml cold water; 7 g kombu, wiped; 9 g dried bonito flakes (katsuobushi); 1 tsp salt; 3 tbsp mirin; 2 tbsp light (usukuchi) soy sauce; 2 whole chicken legs, thigh and drumstick attached (from a 1.4 kg bird); 240 ml saké; 240 ml mirin; 240 ml dark (koikuchi) soy sauce; 4 pink pickled ginger shoots (hajikami), or a few pickles of your choice

Boned chicken legs cut into one long ribbon and wound skin-out around dashi-marinated burdock, tied, grilled over charcoal and basted with a saké, mirin and soy teriyaki glaze. Sliced into rounds to show the spiral.

YieldServes 4 (2 rolls)
Hands-on1 h 15 min
Total3 h 27 min
Difficulty

Ingredients

burdock

2medium burdock roots (gobo), or asparagus or parboiled celery, scrubbed
1 tbsprice vinegar, for the cooking water

dashi

450 mlcold water
7 gkombu, wiped
9 gdried bonito flakes (katsuobushi)

marinade

1 tspsalt
3 tbspmirin
2 tbsplight (usukuchi) soy sauce

chicken

2whole chicken legs, thigh and drumstick attached (from a 1.4 kg bird)

teriyaki sauce

240 mlsaké
240 mlmirin
240 mldark (koikuchi) soy sauce

garnish

4pink pickled ginger shoots (hajikami), or a few pickles of your choice

Contains

Gluten
Soy
Fish
Sulfites
Tuna
Bonito
Legumes (any)
Wheat
Rice
Burdock root
Ginger
Yeast
Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
Seaweed (any)
Kelp
Poultry and birds (any)
Chicken
Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
Alcohol

Taste

Sweet
Sour / bright
Salty
Umami / savory
Bitter
Richness / fat
Smoke
Herbal / fresh

Texture

Crisp
Chewy

Equipment

Grill

Season

Summer

Occasion

Weekend project
Entertaining

Effort

45–90 min active
Over 3 hours total
Difficulty 4
Needs advance prep

Nutrition

Calories: high
Protein: high
Carbs: moderate
Fat: high
Fiber: low
Sodium: high

Budget

Budget: moderate

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