Yakitori Dinner

On a cold and rainy night, we need a little cheering up... Made some yakitori skewers with chicken meatballs, chicken wings, chicken liver, beef, pork belly and vegetable (baby zuchinis, baby bellpeppers, shitake), basted with homemade yakitori sauce.

Home made yakitori sauce:
4 tablespoons sake
5 tablespoons shoyu (soy sauce)
1 tablespoon mirin
1 tablespoon rock sugar
1/2 teaspoon corn starch blended with 1 teaspoon water
Cook first 4 ingredients till gentle boil. Add the cornstarch diluted in water to thicken. Use to marinade and to brusyh on the skewers after grilling.

For the chicken meatballs:
11 oz skinless chicken, minced
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons corn starch
6 tablespoons dried bread crumbs
2 inches fresh ginger root, grated

Mix all above ingredients except the ginger, and with wet hands (to avoid sticking), form meatballs of regular size.
Boil some water, add the ginger, put in the meatballs, till they float (about 8-10 mn). Soak the bamboo skewers for about 20 mn first. Thread the meatballs on the skewers, add the teriayki sauce and grill. Brush more sauce as glaze before serving.

For the chicken wings and liver - I also boil them for about 10 mn before putting them on the skewers and grilling.
For the beef slices and pork belly, just marinade with the yakitori sauce (or any other BBQ sauce of your choice), sprinkle some sesame seeds on the beef, put on the skewers, and grill.