In our article, we want to talk about how Japanese rice omelet is prepared. In general, in Japan such a dish is prepared in two variations. Traditional national food is called omuraisu. And the omelet, cooked in a Western manner, is called "omuretsu". The Japanese dish consists of fried rice, filled with egg. Meat is often added to it, as a rule, it is chicken. Omurais is served with ketchup. The dish even has its own story. It is believed that it was first served in 1902 in a Tokyo restaurant. The owner of the restaurant, while cooking, borrowed the idea from the old recipe chakin-zushi (in fact, this is sushi rice, which is wrapped in an omelette sheet).
Rice omelet: recipe
Let's see how Omurais is preparing.
Ingredients:
- One or two glasses of boiled rice.
- One chicken breast.
- Three eggs.
- One onion.
- Shiitake mushrooms (you can take fresh or dried, in the absence of such can be replaced by other fungi) - ½ cup.
- One chili pepper.
- Butter - 25 g.
- Ketchup.
- Two cherry tomatoes as a decoration.
- Salt.
- Greens
Cooking Rice Omelet
Rice omelet is made quite simple, so you quickly learn how to cook it. To begin with, you should melt the butter in a pan, and then fry the chili peppers and onions in it until soft.
We wash the chicken fillet well and cut into pieces, after which we leave it to fry the vegetables. A wok is good for such purposes. Fry chicken to a white state, also add chopped mushrooms. After a few minutes, you can add boiled rice. Then we mix all the ingredients and season with ketchup. Food should be swept for several minutes on fire, after which the pan should be removed from the heat. If you wish, you can add garlic, if this, of course, is not a dish cooked for breakfast.
Next, take a clean frying pan, melt the butter on it and cook on it the most ordinary egg omelet. An interesting fact is that the Japanese do not beat eggs with a mixer or fork, as we do. They very carefully stir them with chopsticks, even at a time when the mixture is already in the pan. As soon as the omelet is ready, put the mixture we prepared earlier on the very middle and turn everything together in the form of an envelope or roll. If you can’t get out of this way, then you can simply cover the rice hill with an omelet on a plate and decorate the dish with herbs, vegetables and ketchup. So our rice omelet is ready. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in its preparation, but the dish turns out to be more satisfying due to the presence of meat, rice and vegetables. For this reason, rice omelet can be served as an independent dish at any time.
Oyacodon - omelet with chicken and rice: ingredients
How to make rice omelet in Japanese? We want to offer you another way of cooking.
Ingredients:
- One onion.
- Chicken fillet - 350 g.
- Half a glass of rice.
- Two tablespoons of sugar.
- Soy sauce - 6 tbsp. l
How to cook ojacodon?
To cook a rice omelette, heat a frying pan and pour six to seven tablespoons of sauce (soya) and fry onion on it, cut into thin rings. Put it in the dishes only when the sauce begins to boil. Top the onion with sugar and, stirring, we will cook for a couple of minutes.
Next, cut the chicken into small pieces, but not too small. In the finished form, the meat should retain juiciness. Chicken should be put in a pan and mixed with sauce. As soon as the meat turns white, it can be turned over to the other side, it needs to be put out a couple more minutes.
In a separate bowl, you need to beat the eggs until smooth, but salt should not be added, because the soy sauce in which we prepared the meat is already quite salty. Pour the egg mixture into the chicken pan so that the entire surface is covered with it. Next, cover the dishes with a lid. We cook rice omelet for no more than four minutes without mixing the ingredients.
Chop green onions. Put boiled rice in the form of a slide on a plate, and put the omelet on top and sprinkle it with onion greens. The dish is served hot.
Another option for cooking Japanese omelet
Rice omelet (the recipe with photos is given in the article) can be slightly modified by changing the components. Unchanged should be ketchup, rice and scrambled eggs. All other products can be selected to taste. It combines omelet with sausage.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Sausage - 200 g.
- Boiled rice - 3 tbsp. l
- Greens.
- Spice.
- Ketchup.
Ingredients for Omelet:
- Two tablespoons of milk.
- A few eggs.
First, let's prepare the filling. Cut the sausage into slices. Grind the greens. Next, lightly fry the sausage in a preheated pan in sunflower oil, add rice and mix. Then pour ketchup, add spices and herbs. We put out all the ingredients for a couple of minutes and remove the pan from the heat.
In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with milk. Pour the egg mixture into a preheated pan and cook the omelet. When the lower part of it is grabbed a little, and the upper one is still raw, you need to put the filling on one half. The second part, using a spatula, we cover rice with sausage. The omelet should be swept for a couple of minutes. Then you can transfer it to a plate and serve, decorated with greens and ketchup.
Features of Japanese Omelet
Japanese omelet - a traditional oriental dish. There are no special difficulties in its preparation. The simplest products are used. Residents of Japan cook omelet in a special rectangular pan. And they turn egg pancakes with traditional chopsticks. We can use an ordinary or pancake pan and a shovel. The Japanese serve omelette pickled ginger or wasabi. They can be replaced with ketchup with herbs or sour cream garlic sauce. In general, there are lots of cooking options. You yourself can experiment with the components, choosing them to your taste.
In addition, there are many small cooking tricks. So, for example, rice should be steamed, then it will turn out friable, and cooked in water - it always sticks together. If soy sauce is used, then salt is not needed, otherwise the dish may turn out to be salted. Knowing such nuances will make it possible to prepare a delicious omelet.