Oyako Donburi

Damon loves this dish. So do I, although I can't make it as well as my mommy :(

Oyako literally means adult and child. Hence, the chicken and the egg. Donburi is just any kind of rice bowl, basically. So this is a chicken and egg ricebowl.

I made it from memory last night but couldn't get the flavors quite right. I needed to add more soy sauce, I think. Or I might've added too much water. Anyway, here's the run down:

- prep rice in the rice cooker
- combine dashi soup stock, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar to make a liquid mixture (this is the hard part 'cause you have to play around with the portions to get it right. i obviously did not).
- throw in pieces of chicken breast and sliced onion and let it simmer until the onions are soft and the chicken is cooked thoroughly.
- spoon out some of the chicken and onion onto a small, hot pan.
- surround the chicken with a beaten egg and make an almost omelet (it should be a little runny), add some of the soy sauce mixture
- slide the egg/chicken/onion omelet-like creation onto a bowl of rice, pour more of the soy sauce mixture over the donburi as you like.

I topped with green onion and served with fried tofu (tofu dredged in white flour, topped with green onion and soy sauce).


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Hm. This dinner really lacked color.