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30 classic recipes, Dinner, Egg, Find by type, Lunch, Meat, Recipes · 05/01/2022

Oyakodon (親子丼 – Chicken and Egg Bowl)

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Oyakodon is a classic Japanese dish known as a famous donburi. It contains onion, chicken, and egg, simmered in a dashi-based sauce. You can cook it within 20 minutes!

 

Egg and chicken bowl

 

When you want something fast and tasty, Donburi is one of the options in Japan as same as burgers and French fries in Japan. One of the famous donburi is Oyakodon. There are so many Japanese restaurants in Japan that offer Oyakodon on their menu.

 

What is Oyakodon?

Oyakodon is a type of Donburi. Oyako means parent-and-child and Don is donburi or rice bowl. Bite-sized chicken and tender onion covered with fluffy and seasoned egg on top of the cooked rice. A similar meal is Tamagodon which is simply no added version of Oyakodon.

 

Ingredients for Oyakodon

You might have to go to an Asian grocery store to get all the ingredients but you can also buy at Amazon!

  • Cooked rice
  • Chicken
  • Onion
  • Sake
  • mirin
  • mentsuyu
  • sugar
  • soy sauce

Some houses don’t have some ingredients but if you make Japanese food often or love Japanese food, it’s worth having mirin, cooking sake, and dashi powder!

 

How to make Oyakodon?

I will explain the details in the recipe below but here are the steps!

  1. cut the ingredients
  2. cook the ingredients
  3. add the sauce
  4. add it on top of the cooked rice

You can cook this meal within 20 minutes! And, It is considered a one-pan and one-bowl meal. So you don’t need to use a lot of dishwares so it is easy to clean up too.
If you are looking for comfort food, you should give it a try!

 

Similar recipes to Oyakodon

Here are some ideas that you can try!

  • Gyudon
  • Tamagodon
  • Katsudon
  • Karaage-Don

 

I love easy and tasty foods! Let’s cook with me 🙂

 

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Oyakodon recipe

Oyakodon

Yuka
Oyakodon is a classic Japanese dish known as a famous donburi. It contains onion, chicken, and egg, simmered in a dashi-based sauce. You can cook it within 20 minutes!
4.67 from 3 votes
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Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 2 people
Calories 592.94 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 350 g rice If you use a rice cooker measuring cup, after the rice is cooked 1 cup of uncooked rice gives you about 350g of cooked rice.
  • 200 g boneless chicken thigh
  • 1/3 large onion It's about 75-90g
  • 3 large eggs
  • 180 ml water
  • 60 ml mentsuyu HERE to buy
  • 1 teaspoon soy sauce HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon mirin HERE to buy
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon sake HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil

For topping (only if you want)

  • 2 springs mitsuba (Japanese wild parsley)

Instructions
 

Preparation

  • Let's make the rice first. For how to make the best rice, visit How to cook Japanese Rice using a Rice Cooker?

Let's make Oyakodon

  • Cut the onion into 0.5 inch slices.
  • Cut the chicken into 1 inch chunks.
  • In a small or medium bowl, add eggs and beat them.
  • In a small or medium bowl, add mentsuyu, water, soy sauce, mirin, sake, and sugar. Lightly mix them up. This is the sauce.
  • In a medium-sized pan, turn the heat to medium and add vegetable oil. When the pan gets warm, add cut onion and cook until it changes color and gets soft.
  • Add the chicken. Cook the chicken on both sides until the color changes.
  • Add the sauce and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat.
  • Add 2/3rd's of the beaten egg and cook until It looks like it's mostly cooked.
  • Turn the heat to low and add the rest of the beaten egg and cover with a lid. Cook for 2 minutes.
    *Oyakodon is usually served while the egg is still running. But if you prefer the egg to be cooked through, then cook another 5 minutes or so.
  • Add the cooked rice into a small or medium-sized bowl, and slide the cooked chicken, egg, and sauce on top!

Nutrition

Calories: 592.94kcal | Carbohydrates: 60.61g | Protein: 38.1g | Fat: 18.93g | Sodium: 1091.09mg | Fiber: 5.28g | Sugar: 5.06g
Author Yuka
Keyword chicken, donburi
Course Main Course
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Posted In: 30 classic recipes, Dinner, Egg, Find by type, Lunch, Meat, Recipes · Tagged: donburi, Less than 20 minutes, Main

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Comments

  1. Tiff says

    03/06/2022 at 20:27

    5 stars
    My friend recommended this recipe! It was gooood

    Reply
    • Yuka says

      03/07/2022 at 23:49

      Thank you and your friend to trust my recipe! I am so happy you liked it!

      Reply
  2. J.J says

    05/25/2022 at 16:02

    4 stars
    I had a hard time finding mentsuyu.. But besides that it was really good and easy recipe!

    Reply
    • Yuka says

      05/25/2022 at 22:01

      Sorry to hear that! Having mentsuyu is so useful so I am glad you got it 🙂

      Reply
  3. Chloe says

    07/15/2022 at 13:33

    5 stars
    I made Oyakodon using this recipe and it was amazing. I had it at a small restaurant in Japan and I started loving this meal.

    Reply
    • Yuka says

      07/15/2022 at 20:33

      Thank you so much! I am so happy you also love Oyakodon 🙂

      Reply

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