Japanese
Omurice (Japanese Ketchup Rice Omelette)
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Omurice (Japanese Ketchup Rice Omelette) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. 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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Fry the diced chicken in the oil in a frying pan until no longer pink, then add the chopped onion and the peas and carrots and cook until the onion softens, about 4 minutes.
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Add the rice and break it up, then stir in most of the ketchup with half the salt and the pepper and toss until every grain is evenly red. Divide among four plates and shape each portion into an oval.
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Beat the eggs with the milk and the remaining salt. For each omelette, melt a quarter of the butter in a small nonstick pan over medium heat, pour in a quarter of the egg and stir gently until it is just set underneath but still soft on top.
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Slide the omelette over a mound of rice, or put the rice on the egg and fold it over, and repeat with the rest.
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Finish each with a line of the remaining ketchup. Children in Thailand know omurice from the Japanese chain restaurants, and it is an easy home dinner for families who picked Japanese food.
Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Omurice (Japanese Ketchup Rice Omelette), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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. Omurice (Japanese Ketchup Rice Omelette) carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad) |
| Soy | No | |
| 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
- 520 kcal
- Protein
- 26 g
- Carbs
- 57 g
- Fat
- 19 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 10 g
- Sodium
- 760 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Omurice (Japanese Ketchup Rice Omelette) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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