Recipe: Delicious Chicken Tsukune Dumplings

Chicken Tsukune Dumplings. Tsukune is a term that means "kneaded and shaped into a round shape". It usually means a dish made with finely ground and flavored chicken or fish. Chicken tsukune are very well suited to bentos, since they are soft and stay nice and moist.

The chicken tsukune that is served at a restaurant called Japanzu in Tottori City is delicious. I wanted to try recreating it, so we could indulge in lots of them. I asked the restaurant owner, and he said they use special free-range chicken from. You can cook Chicken Tsukune Dumplings using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Tsukune Dumplings

1. You need 280 grams of Ground chicken thigh.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 of Onion, finely chopped.
3. Prepare 1 of Egg white.
4. You need 1 of knob's worth ● Grated ginger.
5. It's 1 1/2 tsp of ● Soy sauce.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of ● Sake.
7. You need 2 tsp of ● Katakuriko.
8. It's 1 tsp of ● Dashi stock granules.
9. You need 1/4 bunch of ● Chinese chives cut into 1 cm pieces.
10. It's of Sauce.
11. Prepare 2 tbsp of ☆ Soy sauce.
12. You need 2 tbsp of ☆Sugar.
13. You need 2 tbsp of ☆Mirin.
14. Prepare 1 tbsp of ☆Sake.
15. Prepare 1 of Toppings.
16. Prepare 1 of plus Egg yolk.
17. It's 1 of per dumpling Shiso leaves.

Tsukune (Japanese Chicken Meatballs) is a regular Yakitori dish items. Soft and bouncy chicken meatballs are skewered and chargrilled with sweet soy sauce, i.e. yakitori sauce. The key to my soft and juicy meatballs is the grated onion and the amount of fat in the chicken mince (ground chicken). Tender ground chicken skewers with bits of shiso leaves and scallions, drizzled with sweet soy sauce.

Chicken Tsukune Dumplings instructions

1. Sprinkle some salt on the finely chopped onion, mix and leave for a while. Rinse in water, and squeeze out gently. Divide the yolks from the eggs..
2. Sprinkle a little cooking sake (not listed) on the ground chicken, and leave for about 10 minutes..
3. Start adding the seasoning ingredients. Combine the ground chicken, onion, egg white and ● ingredients, and mix and knead well until sticky. Leave for about 15 minutes to let the flavors blend..
4. Make the sauce. Put the ☆ ingredients in a pan, and mix while bringing to a boil..
5. Put some oil (not listed in the ingredients) in a frying pan over low heat. Form the meat mixture into small patties and put into the frying pan. Cover with a lid..
6. Brown both sides. Cook through with a lid on..
7. Wipe excess oil in the pan..
8. Add the sauce to the frying pan, and coat the patties over low heat..
9. Transfer to serving plates. Serve with fresh raw egg yolks to use as dipping sauce. I recommend wrapping in shiso leaves..

Make them in an oven or on the grill! Tsukune is usually seasoned with salt or sweet soy sauce - yakitori "tare". Great recipe for Chicken Tsukune Dumplings with Firm Tofu. If there are tofu burgers, there should be tofu tsukune as well? Reduce the sauce as much as you like!