Tsukune recipe

Tsukune are grilled Japanese chicken meatball skewers glazed in a delicious sweet-savory sauce. Typically served at yakitori and izakaya restaurants, these juicy and irresistible meatballs are easy to make at home with your oven broiler or grill. It’s hard to eat just one!

Tsukune, a type of yakitori, is a lightly seasoned Japanese chicken sausage which is grilled and glazed with a sweet and savory taré.

Lightly seasoned chicken meatballs are threaded onto skewers, grilled, and finished with a sweet and salty tare sauce.

A few chef tricks for the very best Japanese grilled chicken meatballs.

Tsukune are grilled Japanese chicken meatball skewers glazed in a delicious sweet-savory sauce. Typically served at yakitori and izakaya restaurants, these juicy and irresistible meatballs are easy to make at home with your oven broiler or grill. It’s hard to eat just one!

Tsukune is a delicious and flavorful type of glazed Japanese meatball often made with chicken. My recipe includes a few surprise ingredients that produce delicious and fragrant results!

Tsukune are grilled Japanese chicken meatball skewers glazed in a delicious sweet-savory sauce. Typically served at yakitori and izakaya restaurants, these juicy and irresistible meatballs are easy to make at home with your oven broiler or grill. It’s hard to eat just one!

A popular street food found in Japan, tsukune are chicken meatballs that are threaded on skewers, grilled, and brushed with a sweet and salty syrup-like sauce.

These Tsukune (Japanese chicken meatballs) are basted in a sweet yakitori sauce with juicy meatballs and full of flavor. Grill or pan-fry.

Surprise your guests with a new flavor favorite! Japanese tsukune meatballs are one of the common grilled items served at Japanese yakitori restaurants and perfect for your next barbecue cook-out or dinner.

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). Don't forget to see the section 'MEAL IDEAS' below the recipe card! It gives you a list of dishes that I have already posted and this recipe so you can make up a complete meal. I hope it is of help…

A blend of Thai flavours with a duck and chicken Japanese inspired Tsukune with chilli jam.

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Yakitori is famous of course, but in Japan when I go to yakitori, the one I never want to miss is Tsukune. It is actually quite easy to make at your home. Please enjoy! #yakitori #japaneserecipe #chicken

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). Don't forget to see the section 'MEAL IDEAS' below the recipe card! It gives you a list of dishes that I have already posted and this recipe so you can make up a complete meal. I hope it is of help…

Chicken makes great meatballs when dressed with a sweet and salty glaze.

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Tsukune are grilled Japanese chicken meatball skewers glazed in a delicious sweet-savory sauce. Typically served at yakitori and izakaya restaurants, these juicy and irresistible meatballs are easy to make at home with your oven broiler or grill. It’s hard to eat just one!

Tsukune are delicious Japanese chicken meatball skewers glazed in sweet yakitori sauce. It‘s easy to make at home with a broiler or grill!