Chicken Yakitori

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast cut into 1-inch pieces
• 10 scallions, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 large red bell pepper, cut into 1-inch squares
• 1/3 cup low-sodium soy sauce
• 3 tbsp mirin or rice wine
• 2 tsp dark sesame oil
• 2 tbsp grated fresh ginger
• 2 garlic cloves, minced

Special Equipment:

• 8 (8-inch) skewers (if wooden, soak inwater for 30 minutes)

Makes 4 Servings

1. Heat oven to broil
2. Thread chicen, scallions and pepper onto skewers; place in a large shallow dish. Whisk together soy sauce, mirin, oil, ginger and garlic. Cover skewers with 1/2 cup of the mixture and marinate at room temperature for 10 minutes; set aside remaining soy sauce mixture for dressed cooked skewers.
3. Lightly coat a broiler pan with cooking spray. Place skewers on the pan, reserving marinade. Broil, turning skewers and basting occasionally wth reserved marinade, unti lchicken is no longer pink, about 10 minutes.
4. Serve hot with reserved soy sauce mixture.

WW POINTS VALUE: 5 pts.

Note: This recipe appears in the South Beach Diet Quick & Easy Cookbook. If you ever saw the photo in the cookbook, you would want to  cook and eat these skewers. The weather was beautiful and I wanted to cook and delicious chicken dish. Plus, I saw Bobby Flay make Tuna Yakitori on his show, 'Bobby's BBQ Addiction' and he made it look so easy to make. The flavors of ginger, sesame, and garlic leaves a heavenly scent and taste in your mouth. Yakitori is a common Japanese type of skwered chicken and can also refer to skewered food in general. You can find mirin or rice wine in the Asian section of the grocery store or health food store or you can substitute 1/3 cup dry white wine + 2 tsp granulated sugar. This dish alone was heavenly delicious without rice, veggies or any other side dish. The chicken, red peppers and scallions will quickly fill you up. I highly recommend serving this dish at a BBQ or during your favorite ballgame, whether it be football, basketball, baseball or hockey and this dish will be a hit. Iron Chefs Morimoto and Bobby Flay and Super Chef Ming Tsai will be very proud of you for making it as well.