Omuraisu (Japanese Omelette)
- 30 g onions
- 3 eggs
- 1 medium mushroom (discard stem)
- 30 g chicken thighs (preferably raw)
- 20 g butter
- 60 g steamed rice
- 2/3 tablespoon white wine (Sake best)
- 2 1/2 tablespoons ketchup
- salt
- pepper
- Cut chicken thigh into 1cm cubes, Finely chop the onion and thinly slice the mushroom cap.
- Keep all ingredients separate.
- Melt 10g Butter in a hot frying pan.
- Saute first the onion, then add chicken and finally the mushroom.
- Once the onion is partly transparent and the chicken is nearly pink-free, season with the ketchup.
- Add 60 g cooked rice, the wine and season again with some salt and pepper.
- Saute until chicken is done and lightly brown.
- Turn off the heat and leave in pan.
- Break 3 eggs into a bowl and add a touch of salt and pepper.
- Don't beat the egg!
- Just mix it with 10 stokes of a fork or chopsticks.
- Melt 10g of butter in a new frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Pour in the egg mixture.
- Spread the egg quickly with 3 broad strokes while moving the frying pan back and forth.
- When the egg is half done, place the rice and chicken mixture in, offset to one side.
- Take the frying pan off the heat and fold the chicken rice mixture free side of the Omuraisu almost all the way over the chicken rice mixture.
- Roll the Omuraisu in the pan by raising one side and tapping the handle so that we gradually wrap the rice inside the omelette.
- Keep rolling slowly until the edges of the Ouraisu are again facing up, and then roll once more onto the plate it is to be served upon.
- The Omuraisu should have it's edges facing down in the final potition, so as to appear to be a regualr omelette.
onions, eggs, mushroom, chicken, butter, steamed rice, white wine, ketchup, salt, pepper
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/omuraisu-japanese-omelette-36535 (may not work)