How to make Yakiniku (Japanese BBQ) 〜焼肉〜 | easy Japanese home cooking recipe

welcome to taja's Kitchen today I'm going to show you how to make Yakiniku or Japanese barbecue so the word Yakiniku just means grilling meat in Japanese many people love going to Yakiniku my family go quite often at least once or twice a month we often go to a Yakiniku restaurant in Japan there's a very special restaurant extra whe they only serve Yakiniku but many people also as my family as well uh we eat this at home as well this is just a different thing if you go to a restaurant you really want some Quality Meat and if you're at home just enjoy the company I recently found out that you can get this Yakiniku griddle even in Germany and also in the US so I got one for myself and it was just really amazing experience and of course you don't necessarily have to buy this griddle you can use just a regular old frying pan and make this grow on frying pan because the main part of this Yakiniku is the sauce or also known as Yakiniku tar sometimes you can buy this pre-made as well those are also very delicious but if you make it yourself it's more fresh it's really not complicated or anything difficult at all so and even if you're vegan or vegetarian you can cut yourself strip of tofu and Grill on a pan and then dip in the sauce and this is also amazing so even if you're not meat eater I really hope you give this a try yourself then let's get started [Music] here are the ingredients for Yakiniku or the Japanese barbecue on the right hand side I have the ingredients for the sauce or the tar and on the left side I have some vegetables to go with the Yakiniku for the sauce I have onion an apple Ginger and the garlic sugar soy sauce and chili powder if you want to make a little bit spicy sesame seeds and then sesame oil and for the meat I have some steak meat and also pork belly but for this you can use pretty much any cuts of beef or pork or also even chicken and for the vegetable to go along with it cabbage bean sprouts carrots and also shimi mushroom these are kind of typical vegetable to go along with the Yakiniku but you can use for the yakin niku pretty much any vegetable of your choice then let's get into it so then let's make the sauce or the tar for the Yakiniku so I'm going to start with the ginger and the garlic then I'm going to grade this using grater sot just like that and then also the ginger going to peel off the skin then I'm going to grade this also then just like that so for the Apple I'm just going to use half of this you don't necessarily have to peel this but for the texture it's better to peel the skin so the sauce will be a bit smoother then we're also going to gray this as well so just like that so for the onion I'm also going to peel the skin make sure you don't cut off the bottom now I just going to grade this as well then you left for the bottom like this so also just like that so with that all four ingredients are finished prepared let's cook them and make the sauce so in a small pot put in The Great Onion then here 1 tbsp sugar then 5 tbsp soy sauce now going turn it to medium and bring this to boil so then once this comes to boil and then keep cooking onion like this for about 3 to 5 minutes or so so then about 5 minutes has passed and here I'm going to put in the grated Apple I prefer the Apple a little bit fresh I'm not going to cook that long let it come to boil and then just for another minute or so it should be enough then at the very end I'm also going to put in the ginger and the garlic and I also put these at the very end cuz I want to have a little fresh flavor of the garlic and the ginger so then I'm going to let it come to boil like this and then this is finished and I like to make a little bit spicy so I'm going to put some chili if you don't want it spicy then you don't have to do this so just like that then give it another mix then this is pretty much finished for the T then at the very end I'm going to put some sesame seeds in this and then also some sesame oil you want to put this at the very end because when you cook this the aroma will go away then give it a good mix then this is finished for the yakin Nika sauce I'm going to put it to the side and let it cool off if you make a big bat you can put it in a jar and save it in fridge for about a week or so then next let's cut up all the vegetables I'm going to start with the Cabbage I'm going to go quickly wash this I'm going to cut through the stem right here so it gets cooked easy and then cut these up in pieces so just like that then for the shimi mushroom these shimi mushroom you don't need to wash them just cut the bottom off just like that and the bean sprouts and then I'm going to quickly wash this also so and the carrot also I'm going to wash this quickly and also kind of slice into pieces so that should be enough so then that's finished for that and as the very last thing I'm going to cut up the meat I'm going to try to slice this in th strips so I think that should be enough for today and then also the pork belly so I think that should be enough for today so everything is finished prepared let's do the barbecue on the table then everything's perfectly set let's start with the Yakiniku barbecue like Mouse so by the way this is the Yakiniku plate it consists of two parts top griddle and also the bottom part so before you start you want to put some water in the bottom part right here like this and then you put the over it so one all the grease come down right here and also secondly has a little effect of steaming for the vegetable and the meat won't be so dry then I'm going to turn the heat on of course I'm going to start with the meat so I'm going put right here oh looking so good so I don't want it to cook too much dip it in sauce like this b m m oh yeah just like home M so delicious this is so delicious now we going to put some pork [Music] me oh this looks so so good sauce also so tasty and this sauce is just so amazing to go with rice M oh so good then of course let's get some veggies as I cook the veggies I'm going to cook also some meat the veg looks also delicious Doug M bean sprouts also very delicious and alsoas mushroom so delicious and with this griddle you see some burnt Parts you can just put some water over it and just washes away oh so [Music] delicious you can also mix up the vegetable like this oh that was so totally delicious so satisfying oh that was so fulfilling so as you saw making this Yakiniku sauce or preparing for Yakiniku is not that difficult at all I really do highly recommend getting this Yakiniku GLE although you can of course make this just using a regular frying pan and this sauce is just so really amazing so delicious so I really hope you give this a try yourself and for the vegetable today I picked up some typical Yakiniku vegetable but you can use pretty much any out of vegetable like zucchini eggplant pumpkin or squash or regular potato or sweet potato those a little bit harder vegetable you might want to precook beforehand or broccoli or cauliflower and if you're a vegetarian or vegan you can also use just regular strip of tofu and grow on the yakin niku plate and then dip it in this sauce and so so amazing and this way you can eat a lot of vegetable without knowing so I really do hope you give this a try yourself if you enjoy this video I love it if you get the like button for me and if you are any questions or requests or any feedbacks please feel for anything in the comments below and if you want to see more of these videos please subscribe otherwise I look forward to see you in the next video bye [Music]