Menu Prices AUSweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki-Style Sub at Home
Subway copycat · ⏱ 30 mins · Difficulty: Medium · Serves 2 · By Sophie Bernard
Teriyaki-glazed chicken strips in a soft sub roll with salad and a homemade sweet onion sauce. The real Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki is from $10.45, 1,650 kJ (6-inch price). Sweet onion sauce method adapted from Cooking Frog and Simple Copycat Recipes Subway sweet onion sauce copycats (2025–26).
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Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
Price: $10.45 (pickup)
Energy: 921 kJ (220 cal)
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Ingredients
Home-kitchen amounts for 2 — standard home-cooking quantities for this dish, not the chain’s recipe (chains do not publish theirs). Difficulty: Medium.
- 300 g chicken breast, sliced into strips
- Teriyaki marinade: 3 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp mirin (or rice vinegar), 1 garlic clove crushed, 1 tsp grated ginger
- Sweet onion sauce: ½ cup sugar, ¼ cup water, 3 tbsp white vinegar, 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, 1 tsp Dijon mustard, ½ tsp onion powder, ½ tsp poppy seeds, 1 tbsp cornstarch mixed with 1 tbsp cold water
- 2 long white sub rolls (about 30 cm each)
- 1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce
- 1 tomato, thinly sliced
- ¼ red onion, thinly sliced
- ¼ cucumber, thinly sliced
Method
- Toss the chicken in the teriyaki marinade and leave 20 minutes.
- Make the sweet onion sauce: whisk the sugar, water, vinegars, mustard, onion powder and poppy seeds in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer, whisk in the cornstarch slurry and cook 2–3 minutes until glossy and just coating a spoon. Cool — it thickens as it cools. Do not over-thicken it in the pan.
- Cook the chicken in a hot pan 3–4 minutes per side until caramelised at the edges and cooked through. Rest 2 minutes, then slice.
- Split the rolls without cutting all the way through and warm 3 minutes in a low oven.
- Layer the chicken, lettuce, tomato, onion and cucumber, then drizzle generously with sweet onion sauce. Tip: the sauce must still pour when cold — if it sets too thick, whisk in water 1 tablespoon at a time — and glaze the chicken in the pan at the end so the teriyaki caramelises instead of burning.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How close is this to the real Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki?
This is a home-kitchen copycat, not the chain’s recipe — the chain does not publish its recipe. It is built to sit beside the original: the real Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki is $10.45 for pickup with 921 kJ (220 cal). Compare the two before you cook — the home version trades the chain’s equipment for a frypan and an oven.
How long does it take, and how hard is it?
About 30 minutes, rated Medium difficulty, serving 2.
What do I need to make it?
The ingredients are listed below — starting with 300 g chicken breast, sliced into strips, Teriyaki marinade: 3 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp mirin (or rice vinegar), 1 garlic clove crushed, 1 tsp grated ginger, Sweet onion sauce: ½ cup sugar, ¼ cup water, 3 tbsp white vinegar, 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, 1 tsp Dijon mustard, ½ tsp onion powder, ½ tsp poppy seeds, 1 tbsp cornstarch mixed with 1 tbsp cold water, and 5 more. Quantities are home-kitchen amounts, written to serve 2.
What does the original cost at Subway?
The real Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki is $10.45 (pickup), 921 kJ. Prices vary by location and delivery is higher.
Where can I check the original dish?
On its own dish page — open the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki at Subway page for the price, kJ and calories.
Is this recipe the chain’s official recipe?
No — no Top 10 chain publishes its recipes. Every recipe on this site is a copycat written from the dish’s published description and the home-kitchen method below, and the comparison box shows the real dish’s price and kJ so you can judge it yourself.
Written & checked by Sophie Bernard
Sophie reads every menu directly from each chain’s official Australian ordering site and records the store and price basis on the page. No price is published without a source.