skra75
09-03-2006, 08:34 PM
A good recipe I looked up after many a drunken night out in Tokyo. The local "salarymen" (guys in suits) go to eat this style of food (donburi is a little bowl with a lid) after they binge drink all night and take baths with hookers in Shinjuku.
Literal translation in Japanese is "Parent and Child". It's funny to mention it to your guests, at least is to me. My kids love this stuff too.
Word to the wise on Japanese cooking - try to make all the chopped up shit uniform. It makes a really big difference in texture and the look of the food, which is a big part of the Japanese dining experience, even in the "drunk food" like this dish.
OYAKO DONBURI
Serves 1 (may need to double the recipe if you're cooking for your special lady)
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
about 2 oz. chicken breat, sliced
Shiitake Mushrooms (fresh or dry, fresh taste better) Thinly sliced
2 or 3 snow pea pods, cut into long thin strips lengthwise
2 stalks green onion, chopped into 3/4 inch lengths (roughly)
1 egg, beaten
[Dashi]
1/2 tsp "dashi no moto" or Chicken boullion dust dissolved in 1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
I serving of sticky cooked Sushi Rice (don't skimp here, buy the nice shit, you cheap bitch, I reco NISHIKI) If you don't know how to cook rice, you're fucking helpless.
DIRECTIONS
Cook your rice and set it aside. Get out a bowl and dish out a glop of rice into it and put a saucer/small plate over the bowl to kind of seal it off. This is to simulate a donburi. If you have a donburi, use it instead, by all means. I doubt you have one, but, whatever.
Mix up the "dashi" recipe using the ingredients I mentioned above. It ends up being kind of like a marinade looking stuff.
In a small skillet, place the sliced yellow onion (really thin here people, don't be gay) sliced shiitakes and Dashi Sauce you just made.
Cook 2-3 minutes until the onion is tender. While cooking, add the chicken slices and green onion.
This part is fun: When the chicken is cooked, spread the beaten egg over the meat and veggies. Be quick! Toss it around a bit with a pair of chopsticks. Sprinkle the snow peas on top immediately. pling!
Cook until the egg hardens a little bit, but don't overcook the egg!
Serve the mixture piping hot right onto the glop of rice in the "donburi" bowl. Pour a little of the extra "Dashi" sauce on there if you want. Put the lid back on the Bowl. Enjoy!
Literal translation in Japanese is "Parent and Child". It's funny to mention it to your guests, at least is to me. My kids love this stuff too.
Word to the wise on Japanese cooking - try to make all the chopped up shit uniform. It makes a really big difference in texture and the look of the food, which is a big part of the Japanese dining experience, even in the "drunk food" like this dish.
OYAKO DONBURI
Serves 1 (may need to double the recipe if you're cooking for your special lady)
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
about 2 oz. chicken breat, sliced
Shiitake Mushrooms (fresh or dry, fresh taste better) Thinly sliced
2 or 3 snow pea pods, cut into long thin strips lengthwise
2 stalks green onion, chopped into 3/4 inch lengths (roughly)
1 egg, beaten
[Dashi]
1/2 tsp "dashi no moto" or Chicken boullion dust dissolved in 1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
I serving of sticky cooked Sushi Rice (don't skimp here, buy the nice shit, you cheap bitch, I reco NISHIKI) If you don't know how to cook rice, you're fucking helpless.
DIRECTIONS
Cook your rice and set it aside. Get out a bowl and dish out a glop of rice into it and put a saucer/small plate over the bowl to kind of seal it off. This is to simulate a donburi. If you have a donburi, use it instead, by all means. I doubt you have one, but, whatever.
Mix up the "dashi" recipe using the ingredients I mentioned above. It ends up being kind of like a marinade looking stuff.
In a small skillet, place the sliced yellow onion (really thin here people, don't be gay) sliced shiitakes and Dashi Sauce you just made.
Cook 2-3 minutes until the onion is tender. While cooking, add the chicken slices and green onion.
This part is fun: When the chicken is cooked, spread the beaten egg over the meat and veggies. Be quick! Toss it around a bit with a pair of chopsticks. Sprinkle the snow peas on top immediately. pling!
Cook until the egg hardens a little bit, but don't overcook the egg!
Serve the mixture piping hot right onto the glop of rice in the "donburi" bowl. Pour a little of the extra "Dashi" sauce on there if you want. Put the lid back on the Bowl. Enjoy!