Best Izakaya Sakura Yakiniku With Oroshi Ponzu Sauce Recipes

IZAKAYA SAKURA YAKINIKU WITH OROSHI PONZU SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine daikon, ponzu sauce and green onions. Set aside.
• Marinate beef in sake, soy sauce, ginger juice, salt, sesame oil and mashed garlic for 5 minutes.
• Oil and heat a saucepan. Add the marinated meat in the pan and stir fry for 2 minutes.
• Serve the meat on a plate. Top with grated daikon mixture.

IZAKAYA SAKURA CHICKEN KARAAGE AND PONZU COLESLAW

Steps:

• Mix ponzu sauce, soy sauce and mayonnaise to make dressing. In a large bowl, mix cabbage, carrots and canned corn. Pour dressing mixture over the vegetables and toss to coat. Chill for an hour.
• Cut chicken into 1 1/2 inch square pieces. Heat vegetable oil in large skillet over medium heat (350 F). Oil is ready when a bread cube dropped in oil turns brown on the bottom in 20 seconds.
• Pour 1 package of Karaage Coating Mix in a large plastic bag. Moisten chicken in water, allowing excess to drip off. Add a dozen pieces at a time to the bag. Close the top of the bag and shake well to coat all pieces evenly.
• Pan-fry half of pieces in hot oil, 2-4 minutes or until chicken is cooked, turning pieces over occasionally. Remove and drain excess oil on paper towels. Cook remaining pieces in same way.
• Serve karaage with coleslaw on side.

IZAKAYA SAKURA TERIYAKI CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cut chicken thigh into bite-size pieces. In a small bowl, add sake, soy sauce, rice vinegar and sugar, and mix well.
• Heat saucepan, place chicken in pan and cook both sides until golden grown.
• Wipe off excess oil with a paper towel.
• Add sake/soy sauce mixture. Cook until liquid is mostly gone.
• Remove chicken from saucepan and place on plate.
• Cook the sauce in the saucepan for a few more minutes until it thickens. Coat chicken with sauce.

IZAKAYA SAKURA DUNGENESS CRAB WITH PONZU DIP

Steps:

• Boil water in a large saucepan; add salt and sake. Use as much water as possible and keep the salt concentration at 3% so that it is similar to seawater.
• Clean the live Dungeness crab under running water by using a scrubbing brush or tawashi. Let the crab hold some wooden chopsticks, since it may pinch you otherwise.
• Put the crab in the boiling water. After the water returns to a boil, let it cook for 12 minutes. Do not overcook.
• Take out the crab and cool down under running water.
• Take off legs. Make a cut line on leg shells and place on serving plate.
• Remove the carapace from the body. You may stick your thumb into the hole between the body and the carapace at the back of the crab, then remove gently.
• Remove and discard the spongy, inedible gills from the side of the body and the black guts from the middle of the body.
• Fold the crab in half to crack the body into two parts. Use chopsticks or a crab fork and take off the white meat that forms in clusters divided by thin sections of shell.
• Place the meat in a small serving bowl. Serve with ponzu dipping sauce.