Dining With the Chef

In this episode, Chef Saito makes teriyaki chicken, a Japanese standard. Teriyaki is a distinctly Japanese style of cooking, where a soy sauce-based sweet and savory sauce is added to foods being pan-fried or grilled to coat them. This style of cooking is becoming well known worldwide, and Chef Saito explains the basics. And for the side dish, nothing says fall in Japan quite like salmon, so they make salmon rice, with plenty of other fall ingredients too, like mushrooms, Japanese herbs, and mitsuba trefoil.