Recipe: Chicken Wings with Glaze

Since I started living with my fiance, my cooking routine has changed.

When I was living by myself, most of the time I made simple vegetable dishes such as soup, curry or quick rice bowls with occasional meat dishes. I repeated similar dishes.. and it was a bit boring, as I think of it now.

Now I am preparing food for me and my fiance, I enjoy cooking than ever before. Because he loves to eat, and has been to all those good restaurants in NYC, I feel a bit more motivated, and become more serious about cooking.

It is a great feeling when we cook for someone and see them enjoying it :)

Since he loves Japanese Izakaya(tapas bar), I often make dishes we see on their menu. Today's recipe is Tebasaki, Chiken wing with pepper and sweet savory sauce.

Tebasaki is such a crowd pleaser and every time I made for parties, they loved it. The aroma of sweet savory sauce is so appetizing! In Izakaya, wings are usually deep fried, but here I just fried with less amount of oil to make it healthier. Therefore texture is softer than deep-fried ones, but it still tastes delicious ;)

If you prefer extra crispy skin, you can deep fry just like you make Karaage before soaking in the sauce (Tips: Fry twice! See my recipes Salmon Tatsuta)

手羽先の甘辛揚げ
Tebasaki no Amakara Age: Chicken Wings with Savory Sweet Glaze

Ingredients for 4 

• Chicken wings: 10 pieces
• Katakuriko(Potato starch): 3 tbsp
• Soy sauce: 2 tbsp
• Sake: 2 tbsp
• Sugar: 1 tbsp
• garlic: 1 clove, ground
• Salt
• Black Pepper
• Sesame seeds(Optional)
• Shichimi Pepper(Optional)

Steps

1. Fork the wings, salt evenly and refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer
2. To make glaze, mix soy sauce, sake, sugar and garlic, and bring it to boil. As the mixture thickens, remove from the heat and put it aside.
3. Take out the wings from the refrigerator, pat dry with paper towel and sprinkle black pepper
4. Put wings in a bowl, sprinkle Katakuriko and toss it until wings are evenly covered
5. On a frying pan, heat about 1/2 inch of oil , fry both sides of the wings until the skin become golden brown 
6. Transfer wings to the glaze and coat it 
7.  Sprinkle with sesame seeds and Shichimi pepper(optional) and serve

Just as buffalo wings, please enjoy with using your hands!

This day, we had Tebasaki with Okura&Hijiki seaweed salad, and brown rice. The salad was also yummy so I will post the recipe sometime soon :)