What is "Teriyaki"?

Answer 1

It's a way of Japanese cooking. The word, teriyaki is a combination of two Japanese words "teri" and "yaki." Teri means luster and yaki means grill or broil. To make a teriyaki dish, ingredients are broiled, roasted, or grilled after being marinated in or basted by teriyaki sauce. It's the teriyaki sauce that brings the shiny look (teri) to the ingredients.

P.S. And did I mention that it is DELICIOUS. :}

Answer 2

Teriyaki in the Western sense, is a Japanese cooking sauce for fish or meat which has been cut or sliced and broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade. The word derives from the word teri, which refers to a shine or luster given by the sauce, and yaki, which refers to the cooking method (grilling or broiling). In the traditional way of cooking the meat is either dipped in or brushed with the sauce multiple times before completion.

Traditionally, teriyaki sauce is made simply by mixing and heating four ingredients: Mirin, sugar, soy sauce, and sake (or occasionally another alcohol). These may all be in equal quantities or varied by the recipe. After being boiled and reduced to the desired thickness, the sauce is added to the meat which is marinated and then grilled or broiled. Sometimes ginger is added, and the final dish may be garnished with green onions.

In other cultures, teriyaki is often misrepresented, using the term for any dish made with a teriyaki-like sauce and adding ingredients such as garlic (which is uncommon in traditional Japanese cuisine) or sesame. Many of the bottled teriyaki sauces on the market are actually a version of the spicier Korean bulgogi sauce, which contains the aforementioned ingredients. Sometimes a meat will be grilled first and then a sauce poured on afterward but this is not a traditional way of cooking teriyaki.

Answer 3

Then, what is teriyaki? It is a way of Japanese cooking. The word, teriyaki is a combination of two Japanese words "teri" and "yaki." Teri means luster and yaki means grill or broil. To make a teriyaki dish, ingredients are broiled, roasted or grilled after being marinated in or basted by teriyaki sauce. It is the teriyaki sauce that brings the shiny look (teri) to the ingredients. This is the real teriyaki, although any dish cooked with teriyaki sauce seems to be called teriyaki nowadays, whether the ingredients are Japanese or not.

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup *mirin (sweet rice wine) (soy sauce : mirin = 1:1)
2 tbsp sugar
PREPARATION:
Pour all ingredients in a pan. Stir the mixture well. Put the pan on low heat and simmer for a couple of minutes. Remove from the heat and cool the mixture. Store the sauce in a clean bottle in the fridge.
*You can substitute mirin with sake and sugar (sake:sugar = 3:1) ** Adjust the amount of sugar, depending on your preference.

Answer 4

Teriyaki is a Sauce which can be prepared at home as well. You can prepare chicken with Teriyaki sauce and its too good a dish.

Answer 5

Teriyaki sauce cheap homemade version: Equal parts of honey and soy sauce.

Answer 6

Teriyaki is a japanese cook recipe that have some sweet and salty taste in it and it can be cook for salmon teriyaki,beef teriyaki and chicken teriyaki.........it taste good.........mmhhm.........

Answer 7

Teriyaki is barbecue meat...
Teri means the shining sauce on the meat...
Yaki means barbecue........
So,Teriyaki is barbecue meat with shining sauce

Answer 8

It is a japanese word for Teri- lustre/ shine and Yaki - grilling / broiling. This refers to a japanese genre of food in which the meat, fish etc. is grilled/ broiled in a sweet soy sauce marinade.

Answer 9

i thought teriyaki was a kind of marinade?

Answer 10

It's an oriental spicy peanut butter sauce!