Japanese

Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)

Name: Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1 lb ground chicken; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp mirin; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 tsp grated ginger; 3 large eggs; 1/2 cup green peas; 5 cups cooked white rice; 1 tsp neutral oil

Kenji @kenji_notebook

Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) 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.

20 min Easy Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb ground chicken
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp mirin
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp grated ginger
3 large eggs
1/2 cup green peas
5 cups cooked white rice
1 tsp neutral oil

How to cook it

Cook the ground chicken in a small pan with the soy sauce, mirin, sugar, and ginger, breaking it up, until dry and glossy, about 6 minutes.
Wipe the pan, beat the eggs with a pinch of salt, and scramble them slowly in a little oil into fine curds.
Blanch the peas briefly in boiling water.
Divide the rice among bowls and spoon the chicken soboro over one half and the egg over the other.
Scatter the peas over the top for color.

Watch how to cook Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

【基本のお料理】そぼろ二色丼の作り方【簡単/豚ひき肉でも】 Play the video

Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
  
  15 min
The cooked vegetable
- Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min
The sharp little thing
- Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger)
  
  2 min

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. Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)
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: 570 kcal
Protein: 36 g
Carbs: 71 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 680 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Soboro Don (Two-Color Ground Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.