Recipe: Chicken sautéed in sweet soy vinegar sauce. Remains delicious even after cooling.

Number of steps:  4 steps
Time taken: 15 minutes
Approximately 200 per serving (when serving 4)

About This Dish:
Chicken, chicken, chicken. One of my favourite meats, especially for cooking at home. It's versatile and goes great with various Japanese sauces. As you can see on my recipe list, lots of dishes can be made with chicken! 

This dish like any other Japanese chicken dish goes perfectly with rice. I found myself pouring the chicken and leftover sauce all over my Japanese brown rice like a "donburi" which is literally a bowl of rice with food on top like this dish with a bed of chicken and eggplant with delicious eel sauce!  By using egg white and potato starch, the chicken becomes soft and chewy as well as helps to thicken the delicious vinegar sauce. 

Vinegar has various health benefits; given the increase in health consciousness in Japan, vinegar has become popular and have been used greatly in dishes in the recent years. What are the health benefits? The main 5 benefits of vinegar according to this article in Japan is: Recovery, better appetite, increase in ability for the body to take in calcium, reduction in body fat, blood sugar level and blood pressure. 



What You Need:
(Makes 3-4 servings)

• Chicken breast (I used boneless/skinless chicken breast) 1lb
• 1 egg white
• 2 tbsp potato starch
• 1/2 - 1 tbsp oil (I used organic coconut oil but any oil works)

Marinade

• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp Japanese soy sauce
• 1 tsp Japanese rice vinegar

Sauce

• 2 tbsp sugar
• 3 tbsp rice vinegar
• 2.5 tbsp Japanese soy sauce

1. Marinate the chicken for a couple of minutes in the "Marinade" listed above. Make sure you mix it or even massage it :)

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4. Heat a pan on LOW to MEDIUM heat and heat some oil. Throw in the chicken and cook until brown. Once it browns, turn the heat to HIGH and pour in the sauce. Mix it well with the meat. Once the sauce starts bubbling and is thick, you're done! 

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2. While the chicken is marinating, go ahead and make the sauce by mixing all the ingredients into a small bowl.

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3. Add the egg white and starch into the marinating chicken and mix well. Once again, this will help soften the chicken and thicken the sauce when we cook it.

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