Grilled Chicken Teriyaki (dak bulgogi)

The other day, my mom went shopping with my wife and bought us a huge pack of chicken meat. So, we decided to make some Chicken Bulgogi.

Bulgogi is a Korean dish, which you marinate the meat in sauce and grill it on a pan.

It's one of my favorite dish.

There are many variations on Bulgogi, some like it very hot and spicy, and some mild and sweet.

Southern part of Korea, where I am from, people make it really hot and spicy. We add lots of red pepper powder.

But As you go north, the food becomes mild and sweet.

I also like it hot, but today, we will make it somewhat mild and sweet for our Americal fellows.

Oh, one thing before we start.

My mom is a really good cook and I try to learn from her.

However, in her recipe, everything is always so vague.

I would ask her, 'mom, how can you make this?'

And she would answer, "Oh, that's so easy. You put a little bit of salt, and a little bit of sugar, and tiny bit of soy sauce, and ..."

For her, everything is so little bit that I can't comprehend so much.

I am trying to be as precise as possible, but just want to let you know sometimes, it's really hard.

Well, here it goes.

Ingredients: Chicken (1.5lbs) Soy sauce(5 tbsp) Sugar(2 tbsp) onion garlic salt and pepper, and veggies of your choice

1. Either you choose boneless, skinless chicken, or you separate meat out of bone. And cut it in about the size of meatball. (1.5 lbs)

2. One thing is, if you don't like the distinct smell of chicken, you can soak it in milk for 30 minutes. The meat will be tenderized and the meat odor will be gone.

3. You need to make the sauce.

Mix two table spoons of sugar, five table spoons of soy sauce, hint of salt and pepper, 1/2 table spoon of minced or powdered garlic, and a quater of minced onoin.

Put everything in a mixer and mix it well.

4. Put the sauce on the meat and mix well. Let it sit for 20 minutes. (If longer than 20 minutes, the meat juice will be out of the meat because of osmosis, and your meat wouldn't be as good)

5. Put 2 spoons of cooking oil on a pan and grill it until the outside of the meat is brown.

Oh, I am not really a veggie lover, but you can grill your favorite veggies with the meat, too.

Good veggies to go with are onions, cabage, green pepper, etc.