Today I introduce you to Japanese Style Homemade Chicken Meatballs: “Tori-Tsukune”. This is a kind of Yakitori so you can have it in Yakitori restaurants. These homemade meatballs are delicious, easy to cook and great for to-go-lunches!
I used ground chicken, green onion and tofu as the meatballs ingredients. Tofu gives the meatballs a soft texture and makes them more nutritious. It also allows you to make a larger number of meatballs. You can use only ground chicken if you don’t want to use tofu. In addition, you can add more vegetables secretly if your family doesn’t like vegetables very much, such as onions, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli and so on. I recommend mincing them really well and then adding the meat mixture.
What I love about Japanese style meatballs is they are very flavorful because they are seasoned with grated ginger. And the sauce is sweet-savory like a Teriyaki sauce. It is seriously delicious!!
The recipe is easy.
Mix the meatballs ingredients.
Cook the meatballs and dress with the sauce prepared in advance.
Skewer the meatballs if you want to make the final presentation great!
{Ingredients (25 balls)}
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[For Meatballs]
½ lb. Ground Chicken
½ cup Minced Green Onion
¼ pack (3~4 oz.) Firm Tofu
1 Tbsp. Cooking Sake
¼ tsp. Salt
2 Tbsp. Corn Starch
1 tsp. Grated Ginger
1 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil
[For Sauce]
2 tsp. Sugar
2 Tbsp. Cooking Sake
2 Tbsp. Mirin Sweet Cooking Rice Wine
2 Tbsp. Soy Sauce REDUCED SODIUM [Gluten Free] (Organic)
Detailed and visual instructions can be found in the recipe PDF: japanese-chicken-meatballs
How to Cook on YouTube:
September 8, 2016 at 12:49 am
I love the crispiness! So yum!
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September 8, 2016 at 6:59 pm
Indeed!! Very yummy 🙂
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September 8, 2016 at 2:01 am
I am excited as this looks delicious as well as super easy to do and then I can finally say that I have cooked a Japanese dish!
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September 8, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Great!! 🙂 Yes, it is very simple recipe! I hope you like the Japanese taste!!
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September 8, 2016 at 10:21 pm
I like that you say “seriously” delicious because that’s how they sound!! are these appetizer size?
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September 8, 2016 at 11:17 pm
This recipe’s ingredients are for about 25 balls so for 2 people it is going to be main dish. When we ate 25 balls with rice and some small side dishes, we were so full. If we can find kosher chicken meat, I will definitely cook this for you!
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September 9, 2016 at 7:47 pm
that would be great! you might have an easier time finding ground turkey if they have Empire at a market near you, the white meat if it’s not heavier than chicken. you are tantalizing me with all these delicious recipes:)
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September 10, 2016 at 11:16 am
;D My recipes usually have some substitutions but for this recipe, I definitely recommend using ground chicken meat because it is a traditional Japanese dish and also YUM 😉
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September 11, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Oh my, looks so delicious. I’ll have to give this a go. Thanks for the recipe.
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September 11, 2016 at 9:06 pm
Thank you for the comment!! 🙂
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September 12, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Wow!!!yumm.
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September 12, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Thank you!! Yes it is yummy 🙂
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September 12, 2016 at 2:42 pm
You have an amazing blog.Lots of new recipes to learn .
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September 12, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Thank you 🙂 So nice of you!! My recipe is totally Japanese Homemade dishes I grew up with. So you can have some of them in many Japanese restaurants but can’t have some. And also some of them are actually my mother’s original recipes so it is not even traditional. But everything is very delicious!! 😉
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September 12, 2016 at 2:55 pm
I know.This cuisine is totally new for me
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September 12, 2016 at 2:55 pm
I am all set to explore .
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September 12, 2016 at 12:49 pm
This looks easy! I’ll try it. 🙂
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September 12, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Yes please! I hope you like it 🙂
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September 12, 2016 at 9:37 pm
I bet I will
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September 18, 2016 at 6:02 am
hope to dine
at your eatery
sometime 🙂
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September 18, 2016 at 9:04 pm
That’s nice of you!!
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October 8, 2016 at 5:06 pm
Thank you that was interesting😀
So glad you enjoyed my pie blog piece today
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October 8, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Thank you for visiting my blog too!! 🙂
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October 14, 2016 at 5:40 pm
I never have combined minced chicken & tofu into a meatball before but there is a beginning in trying new things! These balls look utterly delicious too! Yummm!
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October 14, 2016 at 10:26 pm
Japanese sometimes add tofu to meatballs and hamburg steak. If you like tofu, you don’t even realize tofu is in it and it becomes delicious tender meatball 🙂
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October 15, 2016 at 1:57 am
I looovvveeee tofu! thanks!
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October 15, 2016 at 10:04 pm
You are very welcome 🙂
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October 26, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Yum! I think I’ll try these on game day! Looks like they would be great – and healthy! football food. Thanks for sharing.
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October 26, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Couldn’t agree more!! It is great on game day because yummy, healthy and easy to eat!! My husband’s and my favorite football food consists of this, chicken wings and cheese pizza which is the best 🙂
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October 28, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Ohhh I’m going to have to try these!!
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October 28, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Thank you for the comment and following me 🙂 Yes! Try this 🙂 This is definitely delicious!
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October 29, 2016 at 5:01 pm
Looks delicious… I now know what I’m making for dinner!
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October 29, 2016 at 6:53 pm
Thank you for the comment!! Yes, this is so great for dinner 🙂 I hope you like it!!
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November 15, 2016 at 6:36 pm
Those look delicious!!
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November 15, 2016 at 7:40 pm
Thank you for the comment!! Yes, this dish has great flavor and texture… it is seriously yummy 🙂
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November 15, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Yummy!
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November 15, 2016 at 7:49 pm
😉
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November 16, 2016 at 4:11 pm
😉
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