Butter Shoyu Chicken

Name: Butter Shoyu Chicken
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 450 g boneless skin-on chicken thighs; ¼ tsp kosher salt; ⅛ tsp black pepper; 1 tbsp neutral cooking oil; 60 ml sake; 15 g unsalted butter; 40 ml soy sauce; 30 ml sake; 15 ml mirin; 10 g caster sugar

Golden-brown chicken thighs glazed with a glossy soy-butter sauce made with sake, mirin and sugar for a rich, appetising finish.

25 min 1217 kcal/serving serves 2

1217kcal24gprotein14gcarbs113gfat

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🍗boneless skin-on chicken thighs

🧂kosher salt

🧂black pepper

🫗neutral cooking oil

🍶sake

🧈unsalted butter

🥢soy sauce

🍶sake

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About Namiko Chen

Japanese-American food writer and founder of Just One Cookbook

Namiko Chen, known to readers as Nami, is a Japanese-born food writer and recipe developer based in California. She founded Just One Cookbook in 2011, originally to teach her children her family's recipes, and it has grown into one of the most widely referenced English-language resources for Japanese home cooking, alongside a bestselling cookbook of the same name.

Her recipes focus on authentic, approachable Japanese home cooking, dashi-based soups, simmered dishes like nikujaga and buta no kakuni, rice bowls, and pantry staples such as miso, soy sauce, and mirin used in classic proportions. She writes with an emphasis on technique and ingredient substitutions for cooks outside Japan, favouring clear, tested methods over shortcuts.

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