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Cooking Otaku: Super Sesame Chicken Donburi
by Josh Totman, 02/23/2010
Cooking Otaku: Super Sesame Chicken Donburi photo

[While I'm not quite the foodie that Dale is, I still relish in the opportunity to cook, eat out, and try new things. Food, for better or worse, is my jam. It seems like a lot of you are similarly minded, considering the overwhelmingly positive response we got from Japanator Kitchen.

So today I bring you Totsu's Cooking Otaku series, which should be an interesting feature to watch as it evolves in the cblogs. Take a look at this debut entry and give the recipe a shot for yourself! -- Brad]

I know that every otaku out there now and then has watched an anime with some food in it. Thinking to yourself that "Hey that looks good but I don't know anything about Japanese cooking." Well never fear! I am here to get you on your way to cooking some delicious easy to cook Japanese food! Follow me and I will show you something new that you didn't know that you could do.

First up we have a donburi dish. Now donburi is basically "over rice". However what you top your rice with is up to you. I'll be showing many styles of donburi if I keep writing this blog. (All up to the readers) For now, let's make Super Sesame Chicken Donburi!

Gather your ingredients:

4 Chicken thighs
2 Green peppers
3 Tbsp. White sesame seeds

A. 2 Tbsp. Sake
1 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. Soy sauce
1 Tbsp. Mirin (sweet cooking wine)
1/2 Tbsp. Sugar

2 Tbsp. Vegetable oil

Time to prep the chicken. Cut out the thigh bone of the chicken. This will help cutting the chicken later. If you want, you can save this for later after cooking.

Prep the green peppers too. Cut into strips and set aside.

In a hot skillet on medium heat. Put in the vegetable oil. Then place the chicken thighs in skin side down.

Cook until the skin side is a light golden brown. (about 10 minutes) Flip the chicken and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Move the chicken to one side. Add in the green peppers.

Cook peppers till they look moist and slightly brown. Remove from the skillet. Try to soak up the excess oil with a paper towel. Flip chicken again and turn the heat on medium/high.

Once the chicken skin look crispy then add the sauce made with combining the A ingredients. Pour over chicken. Heat for only a minute or two. Remove chicken from skillet.

Make a bowl of rice. Slice chicken into strips. Place on top of rice with green pepper. Garnish with lots of sesame seed.

There you go!! You just made a Japanese dish without really thinking! Yatta!

Dig in and enjoy! Dozo!

(I was thinking about doing this blog every 2 weeks or so with a new dish, but if demand is high then I might do it once a week. It's all up the readers. Enjoy and comments are always welcome. Also please excuse the picture size.)





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Legacy comments:

Gee-Man

Nicely done. I would enjoy seeing more of these. With all the stereotypical junk food that otaku seem to eat so often, it's cool to see a feature like this. If time isn't an issue, I like baking breaded chicken, then covering that in the sauce. Eat it soon after and it's both succulent and crunchy.

And now I'm hungry again...
 
Josh Totman

Thanks for the comment! I've always wanted to try to make the food you see in anime for a really long time now. Now that I have discovered that I love to cook I have been dipping my toe into Japanese cooking. Hopefully more people will like this and want me to try and make food that they have seen. I have lots of recipes I want to try out and share with everyone.
 
lyfeforce

Cooking Otaku: Now you're cooking with desu!

Excellent blog, would eat again, looking forward to whatever you put out next!
 
Dale North

This looks fantastic! I will definitely be trying this for lunch sometime soon.

 
Irothtin

That looks super-delicious.

I will be trying that sometime.
 
serial

FINALLY! Some cooking! I will propose this to my old anime club. They have some stuff coming up that requires a couple of Japanese recipes, and this looks good enough.

Thanks for the recipe!
 
Tobo

Very nice, would read again A++++
 
Pangloss

Oh wow, this reminds me of one of my favorite things about Tentai Senshi Sunred, when roughly every other episode, the main villain comes out and teaches you how to cook a delicious meal, assisted by the hero's girlfriend.

I'll have to try this at some point next week, it looks great. Keep up the good work, man!
 
Josh Totman

Thanks for all the comments! I guess a weekly dish will be in order now which is fine by me. Which day of the week would you like to see these?
 
thatguyukno

Good on you, may give this a shot this week.
 
MihoChan9

Oooh looks good! I like this column! You will continue?
I made Omuraisu tonight!
 
Yaku

It looks and sounds delicious, will try this for my next bento!

I hope this section becomes regular, sometimes one wonders about what the anime characters are eating (with such delight at times) and frankly I don't like pocky and ramune as many western fans like to gorge themselves with.
 
Josh Totman

I should be able to keep this up weekly so no worries there. My main goal is to teach otakus out there that there are more to Japanese food then Pocky and Ramune and that it is really easy to make.

I've got next weeks recipe already in mind.
 
toma

It looks so delicious! Very easy to follow each steps by the photos. I will hardly make a mistake;) What if I put "Kizami Ajitsuke Nori (thin cut Nori)". I will try it:) Thank you and I can't wait for the next recipe!
 
Josh Totman

Thin cut nori would be perfectly fine as a finishing touch too. Give it a try.

I know photos help me out when I am trying to cook something new. It's great to see the finished dish but how the heck did it get to that state? haha
 
toma

Some cooking shows are like that. They already made a very nice one under the counter.... I was like -_- (Is that the same one what I just saw from their cooking? hmmmmm)...lol
 
Faust

You are my hero right now. I got the dish copied onto my computer, and I'll make it this weekend. DO MORE!!
 
Josh Totman

Next dish to be served this Sunday. It will be "sweet". ;)
 
ArystarSama

Wahh it's so easy! I've heard that Japanese' cuisine it's difficult.

I think I'll prepare it when I arrive home!

Thanks so much!
 
InstraClassic

Going to actually make this on the weekend! This looks great and it's so simple!
 


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