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Teriyaki chicken

Name: Teriyaki chicken
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 6 thighs chicken thigh, cut in chunks; 1 tbsp canola oil; 1/3 cup soy sauce; 3 tbsp honey; 2 tbsp rice vinegar; 2 cloves garlic, grated; 1 tbsp cornstarch; 1/4 cup water; 3 cups white rice; 2 green onion, sliced; 2 tsp sesame seeds

The takeout standard from scratch: chicken thighs glazed in a four-ingredient sauce you can actually pronounce, over rice. Sweeter than you think — that's the honest part.

Time: 30 min (10 prep + 20 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 506 kcal
Protein: 34 g

Ingredients

6 thighs chicken thigh, cut in chunks600 g
1 tbsp canola oil15 g

Sauce

1/3 cup soy sauce80 g
3 tbsp honey60 g
2 tbsp rice vinegar30 g
2 cloves garlic, grated8 g
1 tbsp cornstarch8 g
1/4 cup water60 g

3 cups white rice600 g
2 green onion, sliced20 g
2 tsp sesame seeds5 g

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Steps

Sear the chicken in the oil until golden on all sides and just cooked through.
Stir the sauce ingredients together (cornstarch into the cold water first), pour into the pan, and simmer 2 minutes until it turns to glaze and coats the chicken.
Serve over rice, under the scallions and sesame.

Why thighs and not breast?

Thighs stay juicy through the double heat of sear plus glaze; breast overshoots in the time the sauce needs. If you use breast anyway, pull it early and let the glaze finish alone — the swap shows what it does to the score.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

27% of kcal

62% water

2 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2023 kcal goes into the pot, 1486 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 176 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 176
Protein: (27%); 12 g
Fat: (26%); 5 g
Carbohydrates: (47%); 20 g
of which sugar: 4 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 552 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.