Recipe: Yummy Healthy Minced Chicken and Tofu Tsukune

Healthy Minced Chicken and Tofu Tsukune. Yes, I buy the ground chicken from a store (this one is from Japanese supermarket). It's up to you - if you use breast, it's light and healthy (but usually dry - but tofu should help!) while chicken thigh has more fat so it will be softer and more flavorful. Ground Chicken Recipes Healthy It's very easy to make ground chicken recipes healthy.

If you only use minced chicken, they'll tend to turn out tough. Adding tofu is an easy way of making them fluffy. I also recommend dipping them in soft poached eggs! You can cook Healthy Minced Chicken and Tofu Tsukune using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Healthy Minced Chicken and Tofu Tsukune

1. It's 400 grams of Minced chicken thigh.
2. You need 1/2 block of Firm tofu.
3. It's 1/2 of Onion.
4. You need 1 tbsp of ◎ Katakuriko.
5. Prepare 1 dash of ◎ Salt and pepper.
6. You need 3 of cm ◎ Ginger paste (from a tube).
7. Prepare 2 tsp of ◎ Soy sauce.
8. It's 3 tbsp of ＊ Soy sauce.
9. It's 3 tbsp of ＊ Sake.
10. Prepare 3 tbsp of ＊ Mirin.
11. You need 1 tsp of ＊ Sugar.
12. You need 1 of Vegetable oil.
13. Prepare 1 of Lettuce, salad greens, etc..

You could also use firm tofu, but the end result will be smoother with silken tofu. If chicken cartilage is readily available, I recommend to get some and mince them together with chicken thigh and breast at home. I could not get any, so for the this post I used already grounded chicken mince from a supermarket. Japanese Chicken Meatballs called 'Tsukune' are one of the regular yakitori dish items.

Healthy Minced Chicken and Tofu Tsukune step by step

1. Finely chop the onion. Drain the tofu. This time I used frozen tofu..
2. In a bowl, mix the meat, tofu, onion, and ◎ ingredients. Knead well!.
3. Shape into desired sizes..
4. Spread vegetable oil in a pan and fry until cooked through and both sides are a little browned. Add all the ＊ ingredients, mix in well and you're done!.

Soft and bouncy chicken meatballs are skewered and chargrilled with sweet soy sauce, i.e. yakitori sauce. The key to my soft and juicy meatballs is the grated onion and the amount of fat in the chicken mince (ground chicken). I made at home the frozen chicken tsukune patties that I normally buy at a store. The tsukune patties will be cold and tough by the time you eat it for lunch, so I added some silken tofu thinking that it might make the patties a little softer. The top picture is before they were frozen.