Yakitori

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Yakitori being cooked

Yakitori (焼き鳥, やきとり), lit. grilled bird, is a Japanese type of skewered chicken. Also known as kushiyaki (串焼、くしやき), lit. skewer grill.

Traditional yakitori consists only of various chicken parts and vegetables, but in modern usage refers to any sort of beef, pork, fish, seafood or vegetable kebab, which get skewered on skewers named kushi. Yakitori is typically served with salt or tare sauce, which is basically made up of mirin, sweet sake, soy sauce and sugar. The sauce is applied on the skewered meat and is grilled until delicately cooked and is served with the tare sauce as a dip.

Yakitori is a very popular dish in Japan and throughout Asia. In Japan, many working people grab a yakitori and a beer from yakitori stalls on the way home from work. Yakitori is a common, cheap accompaniment to beer in izakayas.

from Akiyoshi Yakitori resturant

1 Common yakitori dishes
2 Similar dishes
3 Other meanings
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Common yakitori dishes

yotsumi (四つ身, chicken breast)
atsuage tofu (厚揚げとうふ, deep-fat fried tofu)
enoki maki (エノキ巻き, enoki mushrooms wrapped in slices of pork)
pīman (ピーマン, green pepper)
negima (ねぎ間, green onions and chicken breast)
nankotsu (軟骨, chicken cartilage)
rebā (レバー, liver)
tsukune (つくね, chicken meatballs)
torikawa (とりかわ, chicken skin)
tebasaki (手羽先, chicken wing)
asuparabēkon (アスパラベーコン, asparagus wrapped in bacon)
butabara (豚ばら, pork belly)
ikada (筏, welsh onion)

[edit] Similar dishes

Brochette (French), Espetada (Portuguese), Satay (Oriental), Shashlik (Russian), Shish kebab (Turkish), Souvlaki, Mici (Romanian) or Kalamaki (Greek)

[edit] Other meanings

Among Japanese aviation engineers and pilots, birds sucked into a jet engine are referred to as yakitori.

A "Yakitori" tile also features in Japanese mahjong. It is a flat tessera with a picture of a skewered sparrow on it. Each player starts the game with a Yakitori tile on the table to his right. On completing a hand the player may remove his "Yakitori" tile. Any player who fails to complete a hand and who therefore still has his "Yakitori" tile on the table at the end of the game has to pay a fine - he has been skewered like a sparrow on a grill!