What came first -the chicken (oya) or the egg (ko)? Here’s a Japanese rice bowl featuring both!
Ingredients
Serves 2 people
- 300 g chicken thigh
Boneless and sliced
- 4 eggs
Beaten
- 2 bowls rice
Cooked
- 1 yellow onion
Sliced
- 5 g ginger
Sliced
- 200 ml dashi stock
(substitute with chicken stock)
- 40 ml soy sauce
- 40 ml mirin
- 40 g sugar
- 1 tbsp nori
Shredded
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
Toasted
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Remove from heat, then place over a bowl of rice. Serve hot.
Did you also know? These one-bowl meals are generally called donburi. They consist of its namesake topping (chicken/salmon/unagi) and rice (don). In fact, the kanji 丼is read donburi on its own and simply don when it’s used as part of the meal’s name.
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