Japanese
Medama-yaki (Sunny-Side-Up Fried Egg)
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Medama-yaki (Sunny-Side-Up Fried Egg) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
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Crack the eggs into the pan, keeping them spaced apart.
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Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until the whites are fully set and the yolks are still soft, covering the pan for the last minute if you like a filmed over yolk.
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Slide onto plates.
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Finish with a few drops of soy sauce and a crack of black pepper, eaten beside a bowl of rice or a slice of toast, whichever the household made this morning.
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Serve it with
A Japanese breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Medama-yaki (Sunny-Side-Up Fried Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Medama-yaki (Sunny-Side-Up Fried Egg) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| Soy | Yes | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 110 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 0 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 150 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Medama-yaki (Sunny-Side-Up Fried Egg) takes about 6 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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