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Oyakodon Recipe

Oyakodon

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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!
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Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 2 people
Calories 592.94 kcal

Ingredients
  

preparation

  • 150 g uncooked Japanese rice This is an article about rice
  • 200 ml water to make rice

Oyakodon

  • 200 g boneless chicken thigh I recommend using chicken thigh but chicken breast is ok too.
  • 1/4 large onion 1/4 is about 55-65 g (Change depending on how many Serving you set)
  • 4 large egg(s)
  • 180 ml water
  • 60 ml mentsuyu HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon mirin HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon sake HERE to buy
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce HERE to buy

For topping (only if you want)

  • 2 springs mitsuba (Japanese wild parsley)

Instructions
 

Preparation

  • Let's make rice first. Add uncooked rice to your rice cooker. Wash the rice 1-2 times with running water.
  • Use a mesh strainer to remove water and move the washed rice to your rice cooker.
  • Add water and let's cook the rice!

Let's make Oyakodon - after rice is cooked

  • Cut onion into thinly sliced.
  • Cut chicken into about 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 the cut onion and cook until it changes color and gets soft.
  • Add the chicken, cook until the chicken on both sides until the color changes.
  • Add the sauce to the pan and cook for 5 minutes on medium low heat.
  • Add 2/3rd's of the beaten egg and cook until It looks like it's mostly cooked.
  • Turn the heat off and add the rest of the beaten egg and cover with a lid. Leave for 2-3 minutes.
    *Oyakodon is usually served while the egg is still running. But if you prefer the egg to be cooked through, then cook for a few minutes with low heat.

Let's eat!

  • Add the cooked rice into a small or medium-sized bowl, and on top of it, add the cooked egg and chicken!

Nutrition

Calories: 592.94kcalCarbohydrates: 60.61gProtein: 38.1gFat: 18.93gSodium: 1091.09mgFiber: 5.28gSugar: 5.06g
Keyword chicken, donburi
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