Japanese
Oyakodon Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl
Oyakodon 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.
Ingredients
- 1.25 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 6 large eggs
- 1 onion
- 1.5 cups dashi stock
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 5 cups cooked white rice
- 3 scallions
How to cook it
- Bring the dashi, soy sauce, and sugar to a simmer in a wide skillet.
- Add the sliced onion and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
- Add the bite-size chicken pieces and simmer until cooked through, about 7 minutes.
- Beat the eggs lightly and pour them over the chicken in a swirl.
- Cover and cook until the eggs are just set but still soft, about 2 minutes.
- Slide each portion over a bowl of warm rice and top with scallions.
Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Oyakodon Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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. Oyakodon Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl carries gluten, eggs, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Dairy-Free Chicken Rice Bowl |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Chicken Teriyaki Donburi |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | Yes | Chicken Katsu Curry |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Oyakodon Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl 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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, egg, rice, and onion.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.