Tamago Donburi

Here’s another easy recipe for you to try during lockdown: tamago donburi.

We love to cook food inspired by our travels and short-grain rice, cooked in the rice cooker we brought back from South Korea features heavily on my weekly meal plans.  We’ve been eating a lot of rice since lockdown started. It’s a great cupboard staple to have in and so versatile. We have it alongside curries, stews and in dishes like this Japanese inspired egg and rice bowl.

Donburi means rice bowl and in japan you’ll see hundreds of variation from unadon (grilled eel) to gyudon with beef and onions to oyakudon with chicken and eggs. This one is simply with eggs but pictured below you can see two dishes from our trip to Japan in 2019. 

This is a very simple recipe for tamago donburi and providing you have some staple Japanese ingredients, is very easy to prepare and a comforting meal for when the cupboard is looking a little bare.

Ingredients (serves 2):

• 1 onion, thinly sliced
• 150ml dashi stock
• 2 tbsp rice wine
• 2 tbsp mirin
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of cooked short grain rice (we like to use  a mix of sushi and black rice).

Optional garnish: 

• 1 spring onion, thinly sliced
• 1 sheet of crispy nori snipped into strips.

Method:

• Using a small saucepan, simmer the onion, dashi, rice wine, soy sauce and salt for around 5-6 minutes on a medium heat. You want the onion to soften. 
• Lightly beat eggs in a small bowl. Add the eggs to the pan with the onion mixture. The eggs will start to cook in the liquid. Using a spoon, move them to the centre of the pan so they don’t stick to the edges and are collected together like a soft omeltte.
• Add a lid to the pan and cook on low heat for a further minute or two until the eggs are cooked. Turn the heat off.
• Put steamed rice into a bowl and slowly slide the eggs and liquid on top of it.
• Garnish with sliced spring onions and strips of crispy nori if you’d like.

If you wanted to turn this tamago donburi into a heartier meal, why not add this delicious miso cod from Kavey Eats.