Comments on: Yakitori Chicken Ssam

By: No Recipes vol. 12 (World Baseball Classic) | Japanese Recipes

No Recipes vol. 12 (World Baseball Classic) | Japanese Recipes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:27:03 +0000

[...] Yakitori Ssam – Yakitori literally means grilled chicken in Japanese and typically comes on skewers, a perfect baseball stadium concession. For this combo, I marinated the chicken thighs in Korean bulgogi marinade before skewering and grilling them. Once they were nice and smokey, I served them off the skewers with lettuce leaves, hot sauce and shredded Korean pear, so they could be rolled into ssam (Korean lettuce wrap). Recipe here. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:48:20 +0000

Ahh, there’s the Asian pear. I’ve tried it as part of a marinade for kalbi. It’s wonderful how so many cultures have their skewered meats…Vive Japan!

By: NYNYEATEAT

NYNYEATEAT — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:32:15 +0000

nice recipe, fun take on Ssam. for more substance you could always add some white rice in there, and if sweet’s not your thing some vietnamese pickled cucumber slaw could go well too, but that might be going overboard on the asian crossover thing…!

cool site and great tips.

By: Colloquial Cook

Colloquial Cook — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:53:41 +0000

After yesterday, I was kind of not hungry, but now I am. Tsk tsk tsk.

By: starrytear

starrytear — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:57:12 +0000

FINALLY someone that isn’t a part of the David Chang cult. I’m sick of all the over-hype.

By: Laura @ Hungry and Frozen

Laura @ Hungry and Frozen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:27:53 +0000

Ohhh this sounds really good. Meat wrapped up with lettuce is so good- one of my favourite dishes is beef mince cooked with fish sauce, chilli, lime juice and coriander and wrapped in lettuce leaves. Love hearing about the restaurant politics of New York as well

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:19:34 +0000

I love yakitori so much, I can eat them everyday. Was having it for lunch yesterday at Gonpachi.

Thanks for explaining the meaning of Ssam, now I know what Momofuku Ssam means.

By: The Duo Dishes

The Duo Dishes — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:29:18 +0000

That marinade sounds really nice…probably good on pork too! Really loving that.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:27:03 +0000

Marc, a few posts ago you mentioned that you would have a hard time going gluten-free. I disagree! Most of your recipes fall into the “naturally gluten-free” category. All you would have to do with this recipe is use a wheat-free soy sauce and gochujang sauce and you’d be set. I think both of those are eay to find gluten-free. Not that I’m advocating for you to cut out gluten if you don’t need to – I’m just saying that your blog makes me feel like the GF diet isn’t so strange or difficult. Thanks!

BTW, I’m with you and Ninette on salads.

By: helen

helen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:41:36 +0000

There’s a street in Tokyo that my boyfriend and I refer to as Yakitori Alley (its name escapes us). What a great place to be. Your skewer reminds me of it.

By: Darius T. Williams

Darius T. Williams — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:37:04 +0000

As always…another good one sir!

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:57:00 +0000

WOW – I have to make these!!
Thanks to you Marc, my order of Gochujang and Tonkatsu sauce and Doenjang….and a few more things is expected to be delivered today!! I can’t wait to get cooking!

By: Big Boys Oven

Big Boys Oven — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:49:58 +0000

Truely awesomne, simple and delicious!

By: katiek from kitchensidecar

katiek from kitchensidecar — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:46:22 +0000

Swoon….I LOVE BULGOGI. I want that sauce.

By: alice

alice — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:07:58 +0000

Nice. We use to eat these Korean lettuce wraps with bulgogi, rice, and red chili paste. I like the use of Chicken and pear!