Mirin

chicken breast (about 700 grams) • egg • cornstarch (about 45 grams) • sweetener (about 0.3 grams) • Paprika, chili powder, and red pepper flakes, to taste • each salt, black pepper, ground ginger (about 2 grams total) • extra virgin olive oil (about 4 ml) • soy sauce (about 50 ml) • water (about 90 ml) • ketchup (about 25 grams) • Garlic powder or fresh garlic, to taste • rice vinegar or mirin (about 20 ml) •

serving tonkatsu (Japanese pork cutlet) • eggs • onion • water (50 ml) • dashi powder • soy sauce • mirin • sake • sugar • Cooked rice • Parsley (optional)

chicken with skin (thigh or drumstick, boneless) (300 g) • leeks • Cooked rice • soy sauce (60 ml) • sugar (about 18 g) • mirin (about 22 ml) • Kinshi tamago (thinly sliced egg crepe) • Nori seaweed • Cayenne pepper • Beni shoga (pickled red ginger)

chicken thigh with skin (about 10.5 oz; boneless) • freshly cooked Japanese rice (about 200 grams) • nori seaweed • cucumber, sliced lengthwise • lettuce, as needed • soy sauce • mirin • sugar • sake • rice vinegar • sugar • salt •

long eggplants • ginger • dashi (Japanese broth) • soy sauce • mirin • (1 tablespoon sugar) • vegetable oil • chives • bonito flakes (katsuobushi) • sesame seeds