Chicken and Egg on Rice. Oyakodon is cooked in one pan where onions, chicken, and egg are simmered in an umami-rich dashi-based sauce. It is then poured over a bowl of fluffy steamed rice. This Japanese chicken and egg recipe is called Oyakodon.
Chicken egg-fried rice is a quick, easy and cheap way to use up leftovers. Perfect for late-night meals or dinner in a hurry. Pour simmering sauce over and serve immediately. You can have Chicken and Egg on Rice using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chicken and Egg on Rice
- Prepare 100 g of chicken thighs (or breast) (cut into bite sized pieces).
- You need 1/2 of onion (peel and cut into bite sized pieces).
- It's 2 of eggs (beaten).
- You need Sauce (mix in advance): of .
- Prepare *2 Tbsp of mirin.
- It's *1 Tbsp of soy sauce.
- You need *1 Tbsp of sake.
- Prepare *1/2 Tbsp of sugar.
- Prepare *3 Tbsp of dashi (water + dashi powder is also OK) or water.
- Prepare of chopped scallions for topping (optional).
- It's of crushed red pepper or shichimi spice powder.
A big bowl of rice topped with chicken, onion and egg cooked in sweet soy flavor sauce. The main ingredients of this dish are chicken and egg so you go and figure out where the name came from. 'Don' (丼) is a shortened form of the word 'donburi' (丼�り) which means pottery and porcelain bowls. With the intense heat we've been getting on. Cook chicken and egg in two batches: In a small bowl, beat two eggs until yolks and whites are broken, but still distinct.
Chicken and Egg on Rice step by step
- Combine the sauce ingredients (*) in a pan and add onion and bring to a simmer over medium heat for 1-2 mins..
- Put in chicken and simmer until the chicken is just cooked through (for 2 ~ 3 mins)..
- Pour in the 2/3 beaten egg and cook with a lid over medium heat for 1 and a half mins. Pour in the rest of the beaten egg and cook with a lid over high heat for 10 seconds and turn off the heat. (adjust the hardness of the egg with the remaining heat).
- Arrange the rice in a bowl and place the "chicken and egg mixture" over top. Garnish with chopped scallions and crushed red pepper (or shichimi spice powder)..
Carefully slide egg, chicken and sauce onto a bowl of cooked rice, trying to keep the mixture from flipping over. This version of Japanese oyakodon contains chicken, bitter melon, onions, and an egg, all cooked in the microwave and served over hot rice. Let's stop arguing if the egg or the chicken came first because for this dish, both are needed as main ingredients. Oyakodon is a Japanese rice bowl dish. Of course you could make chicken sandwiches or have cold meat and salad…but if you want to try something a bit more interesting, why not give my Leftover Chicken and Egg Fried Rice a go?