Oyako donburi, meaning "parent and child rice bowl," is a classic Japanese comfort food featuring a delightful combination of tender chicken and fluffy eggs atop a bed of steaming rice. This simple yet satisfying dish is a staple in many Japanese households and restaurants, known for its versatility and ability to accommodate various preferences and dietary restrictions. Whether you're looking for a quick and easy weeknight meal or a comforting dish to warm your soul on a cold day, oyako donburi is sure to hit the spot.
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OYAKO DONBURI
This is a popular (at least in Hawaii) Japanese dish which is often served at restaurants in individual bowls. Oyako means mother and child, hence the main ingredients, chicken and eggs.
Provided by KIKUKAT
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Asian Japanese
Time 40m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute chicken strips and onion until the chicken is cooked through, about 5 to 7 minutes. Drain off as much liquid as possible.
- Stir in the chicken broth, and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms and carrot, and let simmer for a few minutes before stirring in the sugar, soy sauce and salt. Simmer for 3 more minutes. Sprinkle in half of the green onions, stirring gently. Pour beaten eggs over the chicken mixture, and simmer until the eggs are cooked through, about 10 minutes. Serve over Japanese sticky rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 277.8 calories, Carbohydrate 15.7 g, Cholesterol 281.9 mg, Fat 10.8 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 29.6 g, SaturatedFat 2.8 g, Sodium 1349.3 mg, Sugar 8.7 g
CHICKEN AND EGG ON RICE (OYAKO DONBURI)
This is a great dish for lunch. I found this recipe in Quick and Easy Japanese Cuisine for Everyone by Yukiko Moriyama.
Provided by Hey Jude
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cut the chicken breast into thin slices.
- Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in lukewarm water until soft.
- Cut off hard stems and cut in halves.
- Cut onion into thin slices.
- Chop cilantro.
- In a large skillet with a lid, mix all the simmering sauce ingredients and bring to a boil.
- Add chicken, mushrooms and onion and cook over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes, or until chicken is done and onion is tender.
- Beat eggs in a small bowl, then pour over the chicken and cover with a lid.
- Cook until the egg is set, about 1 minute on low heat.
- Sprinkle cilantro on top.
- To serve: put about 1 1/4 cup of rice in a large, deep bowl and gently lay 1/4 of the chicken and egg mixture on top.
- Pour simmering sauce over and serve immediately.
OYAKO DONBURI - A TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DISH
Here is a traditional japanese dish that I consider "comfort food". It is also a favorite dish in Hawaii. Whenever I make this and sit down to cuddle up with my bowl of Oyako Donburi, I am totally embraced with memories of my mom's love. Oyako means - mother and child, so goes to say, chicken and egg. Donburi means - rice...
Provided by Jo Anne Sugimoto
Categories Chicken
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- 1. IMPORTANT NOTE: The bamboo shoot is optional as quite a few people find the aroma and taste objectionable.
- 2. Prepare your shiitake mushrooms by soaking it in water, it must be reconstituted. The amount of time differs, but when it becomes pliable then squeeze the excess water out and slice it thinly.
- 3. Cut your chicken thigh or breast into bite size pieces, take off the skin and also try to cut off the fat.
- 4. In a large deep skillet pan add the dashi or chicken broth, shoyu, water, mirin, sugar. On medium high heat, boil to dissolve the sugar.
- 5. Add your chicken pieces, sliced round onions, sliced shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, let simmer for 15 minutes.
- 6. Add slightly beaten eggs in the center of the pan and let simmer for another 5 to 10 minutes, it really depends how cooked you want the eggs to be.
- 7. Turn off the heat and sprinkle some green onions over the egg and slightly mix everything together. Put your hot rice in a bowl and spoon your Oyako Donburi over the rice. Yummmmm . . . enjoy!
SIMPLE OYAKO DONBURI (OYAKODON)
This is a very simple way to make Japanese oyako donburi. The name literally means "parent and child", referring to the main ingredients, chicken and egg. This version of the recipe came from a magazine put out by CLAIR, a Japanese governmental agency, and although contains a couple of specialty Japanese ingredients, these may be substituted.
Provided by howcheng
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Finely chop the green onion.
- Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces.
- Marinate chicken in soy sauce and mirin for at least 10 minutes. If you don't have mirin, you can use sake and 1/4 tsp sugar. If you don't have sake, dry sherry can be used as well.
- In another bowl, break the eggs. Divide the yolks into halves. Stir the eggs, but do not fully blend them.
- In a saucepan, heat the dashi (substitute with chicken broth) to a boil. Add the chicken and cook quickly, stirring constantly.
- When the chicken is fully cooked, add the green onions and eggs in a circular motion. Roughly stir the mixture.
- In the traditional Japanese recipe, you would turn off the heat when the eggs are half-cooked and then place the pot on a cold wet towel (to keep the eggs from cooking any further), but they don't worry about salmonella poisoning over there, so I prefer to fully cook the eggs.
- Serve on steamed rice and garnish with nori to taste.
OYAKO DONBURI
This is an authentic Japanese Chicken recipe that is served with your choice of rice. This recipe came from a cookbook presented to me - "CANADIAN JAPANESE COOKERY, 1983.
Provided by William Uncle Bill
Categories Japanese
Time 25m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a large saucepan, add chicken, peas, green onions and dashi.
- Cook for 5 minutes or until chicken is cooked.
- Add shoyu, sugar, ajinomoto and mirin; mix to blend.
- Add the eggs, mix to combine and bring to boil.
- Turn off heat and place cover on saucepan.
- Eggs should not be overcooked.
- Toast nori lightly either over a flame or on stove element.
- Crumble nori into pieces with your fingers and place in a bowl.
- Fill rice bowls with rice and pour chicken and egg mixture over top generously.
- Sprinkle with crumbled nori.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 306.3, Fat 18, SaturatedFat 5.3, Cholesterol 369, Sodium 980.9, Carbohydrate 9.4, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 5.7, Protein 25.1
OYAKO DONBURI
Categories Chicken Egg Leafy Green Mushroom
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Saute chicken strips and onion until the chicken is cooked through, about 5 to 7 minutes. Drain off as much liquid as possible.
- Stir in the chicken broth, and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms and carrot, and let simmer for a few minutes before stirring in the sugar, soy sauce and salt. Simmer for 3 more minutes.
- Sprinkle in half of the green onions, stirring gently. Pour beaten eggs over the chicken mixture, and simmer until the eggs are cooked through, about 10 minutes.
- Serve over Japanese sticky rice.
OYAKO-DONBURI (CHICKEN AND EGG OVER RICE)
This recipe is posted for play in Culinary Quest - Japan. Recipe found at website: Japanese Cooking: http://bento.com recipe by Shizuo Tsuji - A Simple Art. Oyakodon is chicken and egg in seasoned broth over rice in a bowl. Oyako means parents and children, like chicken and egg, and don (donburi) means a bowl. It's a whole...
Provided by Baby Kato
Categories Eggs
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- 1. To Prepare: Boil plain white rice. Mix (do not beat) eggs in a bowl lightly with chopsticks or fork and set aside.
- 2. Cut boned chicken (with or without skin, as preferred) into 1/4-inch (7.5mm) pieces. The chicken should be raw, but if the purpose of making the dish is to use leftovers, cooked chicken is fine, as is thin-sliced raw or cooked pork or beef. The flavor is best if you start with raw meat.
- 3. Wash and clean onions. Cut diagonally into 1-inch (2.5cm) lengths.
- 4. To cook: Combine ingredients for sauce in a medium-sized saucepan. Bring to a gentle boil over medium heat. Add chicken and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Add onion and simmer 1 minute longer. Correct seasoning if necessary.
- 5. Stir the eggs and pour gently in a steady stream around the chicken in the simmering sauce. Let the egg spread naturally. Do not stir. Keep heat at medium high till the egg starts to bubble at the edges. At this point, stir once. The egg will have almost set but will still be a little runny. Keep in mind that the high temperature of the rice over which the egg will be placed will do the final cooking. Do not let the egg cook hard.
- 6. To assemble and serve: Put portions of hot rice, 1 1/2 to 2 cups, into individual donburi bowls, or use deep soup bowls. With a large spoon, scoop a portion of the egg topping and sauce and place on rice. Sauce will seep down into rice, but the dish will not be soupy. Serve immediately. With this meal-in-a-bowl, serve hot green tea. Goes well with a clear soup.
OYAKO DONBURI
This is a popular (at least in Hawaii) Japanese dish which is often served at restaurants in individual bowls. Oyako means mother and child, hence the main ingredients, chicken and eggs.
Provided by Vicki Butts (lazyme)
Categories Chicken
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- 1. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- 2. Saute chicken strips and onion until the chicken is cooked through, about 5 to 7 minutes.
- 3. Drain off as much liquid as possible.
- 4. Stir in the chicken broth, and simmer for 2 minutes.
- 5. Add the mushrooms and carrot, and let simmer for a few minutes before stirring in the sugar, soy sauce and salt.
- 6. Simmer for 3 more minutes.
- 7. Sprinkle in half of the green onions, stirring gently.
- 8. Pour beaten eggs over the chicken mixture, and simmer until the eggs are cooked through, about 10 minutes.
- 9. Serve over Japanese sticky rice.
Tips:
- Use high-quality ingredients: Fresh, free-range chicken and organic eggs will make a big difference in the taste of your oyako donburi.
- Don't overcook the chicken: The chicken should be cooked through, but still tender. Overcooked chicken will be dry and tough.
- Use a good quality dashi: Dashi is a Japanese soup stock that adds a lot of flavor to oyako donburi. If you don't have time to make your own dashi, you can use a good quality store-bought dashi.
- Don't skimp on the eggs: Oyako donburi is all about the eggs. Use at least two eggs per person, and make sure they are beaten well.
- Serve oyako donburi immediately: Oyako donburi is best served immediately after it is made. The eggs will start to cook from the residual heat of the rice, so it's important to eat it while it's still hot.
Conclusion:
Oyako donburi is a simple dish to make, but it is packed with flavor. It's a great meal for a weeknight dinner or a quick lunch. With a few simple tips, you can make oyako donburi that is sure to impress your family and friends.
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