An omelet is a breakfast staple in many families. This simplest dish is prepared all over the world. This post is dedicated to a traditional Asian dish - Japanese omelette. There are many variations of its preparation, but the constant components are rice and eggs.
Recipe content:
- How to cook a Japanese omelette - general cooking principles
- Rice omelette in Japanese: a step by step recipe
- Japanese omelet for rolls
- Video recipes
Japanese omelet is a traditional oriental dish called tamago. The preparation of such a masterpiece does not require exotic products, it takes a minimum of time, the manufacturing technology is simple. Therefore, Japanese-style fried eggs have become very popular in our regions. An oriental dish is multivariate, because it can include a variety of sauces, marinades, vegetables, etc.
How to cook a Japanese omelette - general cooking principles
How to make a Japanese omelet with rice filling, wrapped in rolls, with vegetables, meat, cheese, mushrooms, legumes and other products? This is a fairly simple technology, but, like many recipes, it requires certain knowledge and skills.
- Japanese omelette is generally prepared in a standard way. Eggs and salt are beaten, the mixture is poured into a hot frying pan and fried. Milk or cream can be added to the egg mass, spices or butter can be added.
- The Japanese dish is prepared mainly in a square or rectangular frying pan, and egg pancakes are turned over with chopsticks. This allows the egg pancake to curl comfortably. But in the absence of such dishes, a round frying pan is acceptable.
- An important point of the Japanese dish is rice. This is not only filling an egg cake, but also a side dish, which is prepared using a special technology.
- The rice component can be present in the form of rice vinegar or wine.
- Residents of eastern countries serve wasabi or pickled ginger with the ready-made dish. In our country, omelet is successfully served with garlic-sour cream sauce and chopped herbs.
- Since the omelet is served with soy sauce, the dish is not salted during cooking.
- To make the rice crumbly, it is steamed. Boiled in a saucepan, it will get stuck together.
Rice omelette in Japanese: a step by step recipe
Japanese omelette - quickly and easily prepared, it turns out aesthetically appetizing and beautiful. He diversifies the menu, bringing new flavors and tastes. And thanks to the content of rice, the dish becomes much more satisfying.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 88 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 150 g
- Boiled rice - 300 g
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Cream - 150 ml
- Champignons - 6 pcs.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Canned tomatoes - 200 g
- Dry white wine - 1 tbsp.
- Fresh green peas - 30 g
- Broth cube - 0.5 pcs.
- Olive oil - for frying
- Salt - a pinch
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking:
- Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes, salt and pepper and leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
- Peel the onion with garlic and chop finely.
- Wash the mushrooms and cut into thin slices.
- Scald green peas with boiling water.
- Grind canned tomatoes with a blender until puree.
- Combine eggs with cream, season with salt and spices. Beat with a mixer until foamy.
- Heat oil in a skillet, add garlic and fry for 1 minute.
- Add the onion and fry until translucent.
- Lay out the chicken fillet and stir.
- When the meat brightens, add the mushrooms to it, pour in the wine and simmer until the liquid evaporates.
- Add tomato puree, green peas, ketchup, and crushed bouillon cube.
- Stir and cook until thick.
- Put the chicken and mushroom sauce in a container with boiled rice, stir and cool.
- At this time, pour the omelet mixture into a skillet with olive oil and fry like a pancake on one side.
- In the middle of the finished omelet, place the filling in a wide strip from one edge to the other.
- Roll up the pancake from one free edge and place it on the filling.
- Do the same with the other side.
- Put the finished omelet on a plate seam side down.
- On the omelette, paint patterns with ketchup or soy sauce and garnish with herbs.
Japanese omelet for rolls
Japanese omelet, or tamago as it is also called, is often used to make sushi and rolls. It differs in that it contains sugar, rice wine and soy sauce. In addition, it is fried in an unusual way: when frying, the omelet is rolled up.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Mirina - 1 tbsp
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Soy sauce - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step cooking:
- Whisk the eggs into a bowl and whisk.
- Pour soy sauce, mirin (rice wine) and sugar into the egg mixture.
- Stir well again.
- Heat vegetable oil in a square skillet.
- Pour the egg mixture in a thin layer and fry for 2-3 minutes.
- Wrap the egg pancake in a roll and leave to lie in the pan.
- Pour the egg mixture onto the freed portion. Once it's fried, place the first roll in the middle and wrap it in a roll.
- Continue frying the omelet in this manner until the egg mixture is finished.
- Wrap the finished omelet in a roll mat and give the dish a square shape.
- Cut the cooled Japanese tamago into pieces. Use it with any Japanese sauce.
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