Homemade Teriyaki sauce and meatballs

This may not be the Teriyaki sauce you will find in a bottle or at a Japanese restaurant, but the taste is amazing and making it at home is so satisfying. All of the ingredients are in stock if you cook Japanese dishes, so keep it homemade and enjoy.

The meatballs are made of beef, but you can use other meat as well. I served the dish with some pickled vegetables and that gives some freshness to the meal.

recipe for the meatballs, serves 2:
320 g ground beef
1 egg
40 g breadcrumbs
1 tsp sesame seeds
1 spring onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 tsp sake
1 tsp mirin
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp soy sauce
salt and pepper
light and dark sesame oil to cook
1/4 cup sake

Teriyaki sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp sake
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp mirin
1 spring onion
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tsp rice vinegar
1 tsp dark sesame oil
pepper

Put one spring onion and garlic in a blender and make a mince.
Add it with the other ingredients to a bowl and with your hands make a good mix.
Form golfball size meatballs.
In a pan in sesame oils give them a good browning.
When they are almost ready, chuck in the sake  and close the lid and steam them for 5 more min.

In a casserole melt the brown sugar and make a caramel. Add the sake and loosen the sugar.
Add the other ingredients and on high heat reduce it.

If it is to runny, you can dissolve some starch in water and bind the sauce.
I did not need that.