Reasons to love Japan: #2

RTLJ#2 OYAKODON/OYAKO DONBURI



A Kyoto's traditional dish, its name means "Parents and kids" because the two main ingredients: CHICKEN and EGG.(Smart!)

WIKI:
Oyakodon (親子丼?), literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, green onions, and other ingredients are all simmered together in a sauce and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. The name of the dish, parent and child donburi, is a poetic reflection of the fact that both chicken and egg are used in the dish. In Japan, oyakodon is often served in soba restaurants and other traditional Japanese restaurants.
The donburi simmering sauce varies according to season, ingredient, region, and taste. A typical sauce might consist of dashi flavored with shoyu and mirin. Proportions vary, but usually there is three to four times as much dashi as shoyu and mirin. For oyakodon, Tsuji (1980) recommends dashi flavored with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and sugar.


Here the Recipe


Discovered in Cavoletto di Bruxelles's blog (grazie Sigrid)

Found it in a DownTown Kyoto restaurant near the PostOffice, eated in a Kaiseki-way. Plus we've ordered a Udon bowl :)


















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Meow!
Matthew The Cat