Chicken Skewers with Sesame Dipping Sauce

Preparation is easy

Preparation time is 30 minutes, marinating time 3 hours

Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breast fillets
• 1/ 4 cup Japanese soy sauce (2 fluid ounces)
• 1 ½ teaspoons mirin (7 millilitres)
• 2 teaspoons cooking sake (10 millilitres)
• 2 teaspoons fine sugar (10 millilitres)
• bamboo skewers soaked in water for 30 minutes
• Sesame sauce:
• 1 ½ cups sesame seeds (90 grams)
• 2 tablespoons mirin (30 millilitres)
• ¼ cup soy sauce (60 millilitres)
• 3 teaspoons sugar (15 millilitres)
• 1/3 cup chicken stock (70 millilitres)

Directions

1. For the dipping sauce, heat a non-stick pan and add the sesame seeds, shaking them over the heat until they turn a golden brown colour. Put them in a pestle with the mirin and grind them to form a paste. Stir in the soy sauce, the sugar and the cold chicken stock.
2. Slice the chicken and put it in a bowl. Add the soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sake to marinate the chicken for at least 3 hours. Set aside in the fridge.
3. When you are ready to serve, drain the chicken but keep the marinade. Thread the chicken pieces onto the soaked bamboo skewers and place them on the grill for a couple of minutes each side, brushing with the marinade all the while.
4. Serve with the sesame dipping sauce.