Japanese

Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich)

Name: Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 6 hard-boiled eggs; 4 slices shokupan; 4 tbsp japanese mayonnaise; 1/2 tsp granulated sugar; 1/4 tsp salt

Haruka @haruka_sendai

Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich) 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.

15 min Easy Eggetarian Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

6 hard-boiled eggs
4 slices shokupan
4 tbsp japanese mayonnaise
1/2 tsp granulated sugar
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Peel the hard-boiled eggs and chop them finely.
Stir the chopped eggs with the japanese mayonnaise, sugar and salt until creamy but still a little chunky.
Spread the egg salad thickly over two slices of the shokupan and top with the remaining slices.
Trim the crusts if you like a neat cafe cut.
Cut each sandwich into thick pieces and serve, made at home as often as it is bought from a convenience store counter.

Watch how to cook Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich)

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

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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 Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich), 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 Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich) carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich)
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	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: 600 kcal
Protein: 24 g
Carbs: 36 g
Fat: 40 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 760 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Tamago Sando (Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich) takes about 15 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.