How to Make Delicious Oyakodon

Oyakodon. Mix the dashi, mirin, sake, soy sauce and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. Put the chicken thighs and onion in a small pan, and pour over half the dashi broth so the chicken is just covered. Oyakodon is a one-bowl meal consisting of a bed of rice topped with chicken and egg (hence the name 'oyako', meaning 'parent and child') and seasoned with soy sauce, mirin, and dashi.

Oyakodon is chicken and egg in seasoned broth over rice in a bowl. Oyako means parents and children, like chicken and egg, and don (donburi) means a bowl. It's a whole meal in one bowl. You can have Oyakodon using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Oyakodon

1. Prepare 1 of chicken breast fillet (cut diced).
2. It's 1 of chicken thighs (cut diced).
3. It's 1 of egg (beaten).
4. It's 1/2 of onion (cut triangle).
5. You need 1 of leek (sliced).
6. You need 2 tbsp of mirin.
7. It's 3 tbsp of soy sauce.
8. It's of Salt & sugar.
9. You need 1 pack of dashi powder.
10. Prepare of Water.
11. It's of Gari (japanese ginger pickled).

It is a healthy dish since everything is boiled with no added oil. Chop the pheasant into pieces and sprinkle with bicarbonate of soda. The name of the dish means "Parent-Child Bowl", as the chicken and the egg are served together. Oyakodon, Japanese Chicken and Egg over Rice.

Oyakodon step by step

1. Marinade the chicken with soy sauce for 5 minutes..
2. Boil some water, add dashi powder, and put sliced onion in..
   
3. Put the chicken in the broth, season with salt, sugar, and mirin, wait until it's cooked..
4. When the stock start to dry, put the beaten egg in, followed with the leek..
5. Give extra time to let it cool before served to get a better taste..
6. Serve with gari (japanese ginger pickled), and togarashi..

Scroll down for the YouTube video. Oyakodon is a Japanese one bowl rice dish. Steamed white rice is topped with a combination of onions, chicken and softly cooked eggs that's been simmered in a broth of dashi, sake, mirin and soy sauce. Simple, rustic, but so, so satisfying. "Oyako" means mother and child, a reference to the egg and chicken. Oyakodon (親子丼) is a classic Japanese chicken and egg rice bowl, with tender pieces of chicken and sweet onions simmered in a sweet and savory dashi that's bound together with egg.