Oyako Don
Oyako literally means ‘parent and child’ – yes, chicken and egg. Oyako don is a sort of chicken omelette on rice. It is a cheap, quick and nourishing one-bowl everyday Japanese dish that everybody loves.
Ingredients
Omelette
- 300 g Waitoa Free Range Diced Chicken Breast
- 1 onion thinly sliced
- 1 cup dashi Japanese stock – chicken stock work well too
- 3 tbsp mirin
- 2 tbsp sauce
- 4 large eggs
Shiitake rice
- 1 cup medium or short grain white rice
- 375 ml water
- ½ tbsp soy sauce
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4–5 shiitake mushrooms sliced
- 1 small carrot sliced thin in half moons
To serve
- ½ nori sheet cut or tear in small pieces
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds toasted
- 2 tbsp sweet chili sauce
- Coriander
Instructions
- Rinse rice with cold water in a sieve. Add drained rice, water, salt and soy sauce to a small pot. Drop in the carrot and shiitake. Bring to the boil. Add a lid and reduce to a simmer for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave to steam with the lid on for a further 5 minutes.
- When the rice is finished cooking, make the omelette. Place onion and dashi in a large frying pan and bring to the boil. Lower heat and simmer for a few minutes until the onion is soft. Add mirin and soy sauce, then chicken pieces.
- Continue to cook for 5 minutes until the onion and chicken are cooked well.
- Beat eggs in a bowl and pour into the frying pan. Put the lid on. Leave to cook for a few minutes until eggs are cooked to your liking.
- Fluff the rice mixing shiitake and carrot pieces well. Fill four serving bowls with rice. Top with omelette. Serve immediately, garnished with sesame seeds, coriander, nori and sweet chilli sauce.
- Serve with Japanese style green salad and miso soup for a complete Japanese meal.
Notes
You can cook shiitake rice in rice cooker. Place rice and water in the rice cooker bowl, stir in salt and soy, place shiitake and carrot on top of rice and switch on.
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