Fresh Tomato Juices Add Umami to This Japanese-Style Garlic Butter Chicken

Fresh tomatoes add an extra layer of umami to this Japanese-style garlic butter chicken 🍅 The chicken is coated in a savory garlic butter soy sauce made with soy sauce, mirin, sake, grated garlic, and butter. Fresh tomatoes are added at the end, releasing their natural juices into the sauce and making it even more flavorful. It’s a simple one-pan chicken recipe with a Japanese home-cooking touch. I hope you enjoy it 😊 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍳 About This Recipe This Japanese garlic butter chicken is an easy way to cook chicken thighs with fresh tomatoes. The chicken is lightly coated with flour and pan-fried until nicely browned. Then it is coated in a garlic butter soy sauce made with soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar, grated garlic, and butter. Fresh tomatoes are added at the end and gently mixed with the chicken. As the tomatoes warm up, they release their natural juices into the garlic butter sauce. The tomato juices add umami and create an even more flavorful, savory sauce. If you’re looking for an easy garlic chicken recipe, a Japanese garlic chicken recipe, or a simple chicken, garlic, and tomato recipe, this Japanese-style dish comes together easily in one pan. It’s a simple combination of chicken, garlic, butter, soy sauce, and fresh tomatoes, with the sweet and savory flavors often found in Japanese home cooking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥢 Ingredients (1 serving) • 300g chicken thigh • 1 fresh tomato • Salt and pepper • Flour • Vegetable oil • Green onions Garlic Butter Soy Sauce Base • 15g soy sauce • 15g mirin • 15g sake • 4g sugar • 4g grated garlic • 10g butter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Finding Fresh Tomatoes 0:17 Garlic Butter Chicken with Fresh Tomatoes 0:23 Prepare the Tomato & Chicken 1:24 Make the Sauce Base 1:59 Cook the Chicken & Finish the Sauce 3:09 Serve 3:28 This Month's Photo: A Dove Taking a Quiet Rest in a Tree ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 Japanese Home Cooking Journal 🌿 Go beyond the recipe. Discover Japanese home cooking, food culture, and the stories behind each dish. Recent journals: • #1 The 4 Ingredients Behind Japanese Home Cooking • #2 Why Japanese Meals Have Side Dishes • ...and more Read the latest journal in the Community tab. Japanese Home Cooking Journal – Community    / @harumarecipe   Thank you so much for watching! I hope you enjoy this Japanese garlic butter chicken with fresh tomatoes 😊 #JapaneseCooking #JapaneseChicken #GarlicButterChicken #GarlicChicken #ChickenAndTomatoes