Japanese

Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice)

Name: Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice)
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 cups cooked white rice; 4 large eggs; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 scallions

Kenji @kenji_notebook

Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice) 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.

5 min Easy Pescatarian Eggetarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups cooked white rice
4 large eggs
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 scallions

How to cook it

Divide the hot rice among bowls and make a small well in the center of each.
Crack an egg into each well and drizzle with soy sauce.
Stir briskly with chopsticks until the rice turns glossy and pale, then top with sliced scallions.

Watch how to cook Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice)

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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 Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 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. Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice) carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice)
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: 310 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbs: 54 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 450 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

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

When to cook it

Tamago Kake Gohan (Raw Egg over Rice) takes about 5 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.