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You may know teriyaki as a sauce or a dish, however the time period additionally refers to a cooking methodology that dates again centuries. Teri means “gloss” or “luster” in Japanese, whereas yaki roughly interprets to cooking over direct warmth. In Japan, grilled fish was historically provided that shiny end with a easy, umami-forward glaze of soy sauce, mirin (a candy rice wine), and sake.
Later, Japanese immigrants and Japanese People started placing their very own mark on teriyaki in locations like Hawaii and Seattle, and a distinctly American model of teriyaki developed by the Nineteen Seventies. The fish was usually swapped out for proteins like rooster and beef, and the sauce took on a barely new taste with the addition of components like garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds, plus pineapple juice and sugar for further sweetness.
These recipes showcase the easier Japanese model and the more-is-more American model of teriyaki. Whereas a number of supply the shortcut of utilizing store-bought teriyaki sauce, making your individual sauce is a fast course of that can win raves at dinnertime.
Teriyaki Salmon
Jennifer Causey / Meals Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Christina Daley
For this weeknight-friendly Teriyaki Salmon, F&W recipe developer and tester Nicole Hopper took cues from the American model of teriyaki with additions like gentle brown sugar, contemporary ginger, and sesame seeds. The flavorful soy-based sauce serves as a marinade and likewise will get decreased right into a syrupy sauce that’s brushed onto the salmon because it cooks to create a shiny glaze.
The important thing to attaining that shiny, barely sticky teriyaki exterior? Your broiler. The excessive temperature caramelizes the teriyaki sauce, and the quick cooking time prevents the sugar from burning and retains the salmon from overcooking. For a good faster meal, you need to use store-bought teriyaki sauce, resembling Bachan’s Authentic, for this recipe.
Shrimp Teriyaki Bowls with Broccoli
Jennifer Causey / Meals Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Christina Daley
For a one-pan meal, Nicole Hopper broils teriyaki-marinated shrimp on a wire rack set above broccoli and bell peppers, a transfer that serves two functions: The rack brings the shrimp even nearer to the heating component, and the marinade that drips down onto the veggies seasons them. For those who’d like, you may swap in a store-bought model like Bachan’s Authentic for the home made teriyaki sauce.
Pineapple Teriyaki Hen Bites
Victor Protasio / Meals Styling by Julian Hensarling / Prop Styling by Julia Bayless
For this fast stir-fry, F&W recipe developer Melissa Grey-Streett provides flavorful upgrades to store-bought teriyaki sauce like fish sauce, chiles, and a tangy pineapple cordial. She tosses the spicy-sweet glaze with boneless, skinless rooster thigh items, tender onions, and caramelized chunks of pineapple.
Hen Teriyaki
This traditional dish and simple weeknight meal comes from famend Japanese chef and restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa. He reduces a mixture of inventory, soy sauce, sugar, mirin, and sake right into a mouthwatering syrupy glaze for boneless rooster breasts.
Fish Teriyaki with Candy-and-Bitter Cucumbers
A easy teriyaki glaze — made with soy sauce, brown sugar, rice vinegar, and a bit cornstarch — will get deliciously sticky beneath the broiler for this cod dinner from former F&W meals editor Grace Parisi. It’s served with a fast cucumber and daikon pickle.
Teriyaki Tofu
This 20-minute vegan dish from Todd Porter and Diane Cu comes collectively in a single skillet. Crisp, golden-brown tofu is rapidly stirred with a flavorful mixture of soy sauce, sake, brown sugar, and rice vinegar.
Pineapple-Teriyaki Hen Wings
Pineapple juice provides a candy tang to the home made teriyaki sauce that coats these crispy deep-fried wings from Todd Porter and Diane Cu. Serve any further sauce on the aspect.
