Hibachi Chicken and Shrimp Recipe on a Traeger Flatrock

Get ready to dazzle your family with the ultimate hibachi chicken and shrimp recipe. This meal will have everyone asking for seconds and you can make it all in the comfort of your own home. We are bringing all of the flavor from Japanese steakhouses home with super simple ingredients and the best sauces. I have the tools, tips, and ingredients you need to make something special without breaking the bank.

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How To Get Great Hibachi Flavors At Home

So, you are craving your favorite dishes from the local hibachi grill, but you want to cook it at home instead. We can save money and control the ingredients by creating our own hibachi meal at home. 

When I set out to learn the basics of a great hibachi recipe, I was surprised to learn how simple and easy is to make this delicious meal at home. You can absolutely make your favorite hibachi dinners even better than Japanese restaurants. 

With these recipes, less is more. It's all in details like finishing the fried rice with a little sesame oil and using fresh garlic cloves in our homemade hibachi butter. 

Hibachi Chicken and Shrimp Ingredients

One of the reasons we group chicken and shrimp together is because they require all of the same ingredients. One of the cornerstone recipes for hibachi restaurants is the hibachi garlic butter. When I was learning how to cook these recipes at home, I quickly learned how important the hibachi butter is because it goes on every dish. Here's the complete list of what you'll need to make this at home:

• 2 large chicken breasts cut through the center to make thin cutlets
• 1 pound of shrimp - Jumbo shrimp are best for this recipe. 
• 2 lemons cut in half
• vegetable oil- canola oil or avocado oil are good for their high smoke point. *you can use olive oil, but you'll want to watch the heat
• salt and black pepper 
• soy sauce or low sodium soy sauce if you prefer

​Extras

• hibachi garlic butter - unsalted butter is combined with grated garlic cloves and low sodium soy sauce 
• Japanese ginger dipping sauce for the shrimp
• creamy mustard dipping sauce for the chicken
• creamy yum yum sauce can be found at your local grocery store

Optional: toasted sesame seeds to garnish

What Tools and Equipment Do I Need for Hibachi at Home

• Traeger Flat Rock
• large stainless steel spatula
• plates or sheet pans
• tongs
• large cutting board
• sharp chefs knife

Hibachi chefs are able to cook pretty much everything on the cook top with a couple of large spatulas and two pronged kitchen fork. When you have a lot of food spread out across a large work area, the large spatulas help to be able to move items around quickly. Tongs are also a good idea for laying the ingredients on the cook top and pulling them off as you finish.

As I prepare my ingredients, I organize them on quarter sized sheet pans. This way, I have the ingredients for each dish together and I hardly have to think when I am cooking.

How to Cook Hibachi at Home

In Japanese steakhouse restaurants, hibachi or teppanyaki is cooked on a large stainless steel cooktop. The at-home version of this is an outdoor griddle. I absolutely love my Traeger Flat Rock. If you have another outdoor griddle, this recipe will be perfect for you. If you don't, use two large skillets and cook this dishes on the stove top. 

The important thing to keep in mind is managing the heat and the timing for getting items on and off the flat top. You can do it, I promise.

1. Start by preheating your burners to medium-high heat and let the cook top get nice and hot.
2. Add a generous amount of your cooking oil and spread it around evenly.
3. Lay the chicken cutlets on the flat top and cook for 5-7 minutes per side. They'll be ready to flip when they pull away from the cook top easily and don't stick to the griddle. 
4. Place the raw shrimp on the griddle in a single layer after you flip the chicken for the first time. The shrimp take less than half the time to cook as the chicken.
5. Add a tablespoon of hibachi garlic butter, drizzle with soy sauce, and a generous squeeze of fresh lemon juice to both the chicken and the shrimp. Season with a little salt and pepper.
6. Remove the chicken and shrimp. Slice the chicken into bite sized pieces. If there is any pink in the middle, get it back on the hot griddle for another couple of minutes.
7. Transfer all of your hot cooked food to serving dishes. Pile your dinner plates high and dig in.

Special Tips and Important Notes for Hibachi at Home

DO NOT cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces before you cook it. Dice the chicken after it has cooked. Cutting the chicken into small pieces ruins the cooking process. Those small pieces cook too quickly, let out too much water, and don't have a chance to build a golden brown outside for good flavor.

DO have all of your ingredients prepped before you fire up the cook top grill or skillet. These cook fast and you want to be ready to pull them off the heat as soon as they are finished cooking. I like to have clean plates ready so I don't waste any time.

Saving And Reheating Leftover Hibachi Chicken and Shrimp

Leftover hibachi chicken is one of my favorite lunches. Sliced chicken with the mustard dipping sauce and fried rice is the perfect hot lunch when I am working from home. Just transfer any leftovers to an airtight container like glass snap ware and enjoy with 4 days. You can reheat your perfect little lunch in the microwave or on the stove top in a couple minutes.

When it comes to leftover shrimp, however, it's just a no-go in my book. When you are cooking this dinner at first, you will have perfectly tender shrimp if you don't over cook them. Reheating them routines the texture for me.

What to Serve with my Homemade Hibachi Dinner

• Fried Rice or steamed white rice - I am partial to fried rice. Since we are making this meal on our flat top grill, we have plenty of cooking surface available to make a tasty fried rice right next to our chicken and shrimp. Garnish with sliced green onions and you have something magical.
• Hibachi vegetables - keeping it simple I go for diced zucchini and sliced sweet onions. Some people like to include sliced bell peppers, bock choy, or mushrooms. 
• Hibachi mustard dipping sauce - this is the absolute best sauce for hibachi chicken (and steak). This is my favorite hibachi sauce and I make this meal just because I want the mustard sauce. 
• Ginger dipping sauce - the right sauce for our shrimp and veggies

If you want to keep this a simpler dinner, you could certainly serve the chicken and shrimp with steamed jasmine rice and green salad with Japanese ginger dressing for a perfectly delicious dinner.

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I really hope you enjoy this easy weeknight dinner. It has become one of my family's favorites. You can absolutely make restaurant-quality hibachi at home. If you have any questions, please comment below.