Omelet Rice
Posted January 13th, 2009 in Food
Besides traditional Japanese food, there are Western style food created by Japanese chefs in Japan. This cuisine is called “yo-shoku” (Japanese Style Western Food) and I had more chances to eat these yo-shoku than traditional Japanese food when I was little.
This dish “omu-rice” (omelet rice) is one of the popular yo-shoku dish in Japan, especially among kids. The rice is stir-fried with veggies and chicken pieces, usually flavored with tomato based sauce. Normally the rice is wrapped with omelet completely (like you wrap something with plastic wrap), but I sometimes just place omelet over the rice. It still can be omu-rice, I think 
<Omu-Rice (Omelet Rice)> for 2 ppl
- 50g chicken meat (breast or thigh)
- 1/4 cup frozen mixed veggies
- 1/4 onion
- 2 cups steamed rice (cold)
- 1/4 cup tomato sauce
- 1~2 tbs Worcester sauce
- 10 prawns
- 3~4 tbs white wine
- 6 eggs
- 4 tbs cream or milk
- salt & pepper, butter, chopped Parsley
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- Halve prawns in length. Place in a small pan, add white wine and cover the lid. Steam till prawns are just cooked. Set aside. (keep the stock)
- Cut chicken into pieces. Chop up onion.
- Heat a frying pan on medium heat. Melt 10g butter and saute onion till soft. Add chicken and mixed veggies. Once the chicken is cooked, add the liquid from “1″. Let all the liquid evaporated.
- Add cold rice and fry through.
- Move the rice to the side of pan, and make a hole in the centre.(space for tomato sauce ) Drop tomato sauce into the space and simmer. Mix with rice, add Worcester sauce and mix through. Season. *** adjust the taste by adding more tomato sauce, Worcester sauce if needed.
- Whisk 3 eggs with 2 tbs cream (or milk) and half amount of prawns. Season. In another frying pan, heat 5g butter and pour the egg mixture. Move it around like you are making scramble egg. Once the egg is almost done, stop scrambling and let the bottom of omelet to set.
- Divide the rice into 2 and place on the plates. Arrange the omelet on the top. Make another omelet.
- Sprinkle chopped Parsley.
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