This Teriyaki Chicken is one of my favorite easy dinner ideas! It is so simple and quick to throw together for an easy dinner recipe.
Look no further for some amazing Asian food at home! This Teriyaki Chicken is seriously the best when it comes to easy dinner recipes that don’t take a lot of time or ingredients to put together, but tastes amazing! I don’t know how many times in the last few weeks that I haven’t had a dinner plan or didn’t want the one that I did have planned and I turned to this recipe instead. It tastes great enough that I don’t get sick of it either!
How to Make Teriyaki Chicken
- Start by cooking the chicken until no longer pink. Be sure to salt and pepper it for some added flavor.
- Make a homemade teriyaki sauce by mixing soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, rice vinegar, and corn starch. Cook in a skillet until thickened.
- Toss the chicken with the sauce and enjoy it over rice for some added flavor!
Why We Love Easy Dinner Ideas
This seems like a no-brainer and maybe it is, but I wanted to list a few of the benefits we have seen to using simple recipes to make meals for your family.
- Time. This is probably my biggest soapbox when it comes to making dinner. Why spend hours in the kitchen when it will all get eaten in five minutes?! Use your extra time you save by making easy dinner recipes to play on the ground with your kids, jump in the car and get ice cream, or do the dishes together!
- Easy recipes = easy ingredients. And easy ingredients usually mean they cost less money, so there is so much winning going on all around!
- When dinners are easy to make, you can feel less stressed and more able to let your kids get in the kitchen with you. Our kids love sitting on the counter and helping us cook and when it’s not a complicated recipe, I end up loving it too! Even if you don’t have kids or maybe they are grown and out of the house, you will love the ease of being able to nourish your body without having to get overwhelmed by it!
I hope you enjoy this delicious Teriyaki Chicken as much as we do in our house. It’s one of the few meals that I know my two and five year olds will both eat, so it gets made quite often here. Enjoy!
Teriyaki Chicken
If you want great, homemade Asian food, then this Easy Chicken Teriyaki is where it's at! It is so simple and quick to throw together for an easy dinner recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breast cut into bite-size pieces
- salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar packed
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 Tbsp. rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. cornstarch
- {Optional} steamed rice
Instructions
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Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
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Salt and pepper chicken, according to taste, and add to skillet. Cook until no longer pink inside, stirring often.
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In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, vinegar and cornstarch. Stir until cornstarch is fully mixed.
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Add sauce to skillet and stir constantly until thickened and shiny.
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Serve immediately over steamed rice.
Recipe Notes
Recipe adapted from Crunchy Creamy Sweet.
-Sarah
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I made this last night and was hoping for leftovers to take to work, it was so good that leftovers definitely didn’t happen 🙂 I upped the sauce just a bit and cooked some broccoli with the chicken and sauce and it was delicious!
GONNA TRY THIS REALLY SOON!
Very easy and delicious!! I will share this recipe with family and friends and definitely make it again!
Is there an alternative to the soy sauce , my mother in-law has celiac , and can’t have it ?
Fast easy and delicious. 100% will make again
I’m so glad you liked it!! Thanks for your feedback.
can i use red vinegar instead of rice vinegar
please answer back i want to make it TONIGHT
Hi, Valerie! Technically, you could sub the rice vinegar for red vinegar (I’m assuming you meant red wine vinegar?), but the taste may change slightly due to red wine vinegar being more acidic and a little sweeter. White wine vinegar would probably be a better sub, but I don’t think it would totally ruin the dish to do red. Good luck!
What if I don’t have rice vinegar
I do, I do, I do love easy dinner ideas and this is one of my favorites!
Teriyaki chicken is my favorite! This recipe is great, thank you
Very good and very easy. I have most of the ingredients in my kitchen. Thank you!
My husband wanted some chicken teriyaki and found this treasure! So delicious and fast to make. Thank you so much !
Heh It’s good
I made this earlier. I didn’t have any chicken thawed, so I swapped it out for some chopped pork that needed to be used, and I added a bag of stir-fry veggies. Turned out great, family demolished it.
I made this meal for dinner tonight and it was a huge hit. It was very tasty and a quick meal to make on a week night. Thanks for the recipe. I will definitely make this again
Hi, could you tell me the serving size amount? It doesn’t say of the nutritional facts chart. Thank you!
I’ve been using this recipe for a few years now. So so yummy. Thank you!
This is a wonderful, quick recipe. I didn’t change a thing. My child almost inhaled it, and said this is the best teriyaki chicken he has EVER had. Thank you for sharing.
I’m so glad to hear it! Thank you for sharing!