
Tsukune: what it is and where to eat it
Japanese chicken meatballs often served on skewers. They are typically made from minced chicken and seasoned with ginger or scallions.
5 restaurants on Tastavo serve it
- Cuisine
- Japanese
Typical ingredients
- chicken mince
- egg
- scallion
- ginger
- soy sauce
History of the dish
Japan

- Origin
- Japan
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Tsukune (つくね、捏、捏ね) is a Japanese chicken meatball most often cooked yakitori style (but also can be fried, baked, or boiled) and sometimes covered in a sweet soy or yakitori tare, which is often mistaken for teriyaki sauce.
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Where to eat it
Amsterdam
- Hakata Senpachi€4.30
Geneva
- YukiguniCHF 11
Bordeaux
- Le Samouraï tsukune€7.50
Luxembourg
- Jing Do€6.80
Genoa
- NAMI TSUKUNE€6
General information about this dish, not provided by the venue. Dish pictures are illustrations based on the menu description, not photos from the venue.