No Recipe Teriyaki
You don’t need recipes to eat!
We’ve been working on different eating strategies to help you overcome the need to constantly find recipes in order to eat. In our Sunday Session newsletter we sent a pdf that Ange from Spread put together for us outlining various eating strategies. These eating strategies are to help break down some of the barriers people have towards cooking.
We thought showing how we cook with these various eating strategies in mind would be the most helpful for your own cooking journey. The first one we’ll highlight - you don’t need recipes to eat.
Reflecting on how we/I cook and it is seldom that I actually use recipes unless I’m looking for inspiration or guidance. You see you don’t need recipes to cook, you just need some understanding into how these dishes are made.
This dish is a take on teriyaki chicken, but you can essentially substitute the chicken, rice and veg for whatever your heart desired. The key here is the combination of ingredients to create the teriyaki sauce.
At the simplest level, teriyaki sauce is a combination of from soy, alcohol, and sugar. The typical Japanese sauce would consist of:
1 Tbsp soy
1 Tbsp sake (rice wine)
1 Tbsp mirin (sweetened rice wine)
1 tsp sugar
To make the dish I grilled seasoned chicken (salt and pepper) on the BBQ, cooked rice, and boiled broccoli. The magic comes when you combine the teriyaki glaze.
The sauce I made consisted of soy, standard white wine, and honey (what I had in the pantry). Place everything into a plan and reduce by at least half. Take off the heat and place into the fridge to cool while you prepare everything else.
Following that framework you can essentially create any variation of the well know glaze with whatever you have lying around. Tofu, steak, salmon, and fill the gap with any vegetable you like.
Note: For those following one of our nutrition plans the portion of the main foods (rice, protein, etc.) will be on your plan. Use the sauce as your “condiment” serve.
Nutritional Information:
Calories: 85kcal
Calories are based on the Classical Japanese sauce ingredients only