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Parent & Child Rice Bowl Dish (Oyakodon)
September 27, 2024
Our Oyakodon recipe
Shop's Oyakodon dish
The word “oyako, ” which means parent and child in Japanese, comes from the use of chicken and eggs in this recipe. “Don” means big bowl in Japanese. Oyakodon is a large bowl of rice topped with chicken and onions which have been simmered in broth made from bonito flakes or dried kelp, soy sauce, sugar, or mirin (sweet sake for seasoning). After the ingredients have been cooked through, a lightly beaten egg is poured in and the heat turned off when the egg is half-cooked. The mixture is then placed over the rice. The sweetened soy sauce broth soaks into the chicken and the semi-cooked egg, and is very tasty when eaten with rice. There is a theory that oyakodon was invented in 1891 by a certain one-pot chicken dish restaurant in Tokyo. Oyakodon is also a home-style dish, sold at supermarkets and bento shops, and is of course available at restaurants and oyakodon specialty restaurants. You can find a recipe for oyakodon on our website, so if you are interested, please try making it.
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What kind of impression do you have when you say Japanese food?
You may imagine healthy, colorful, beautiful, high quality, traditional, etc. Can you imagine cooking Japanese food at home? Most people may think that it is difficult.
However, we think otherwise. Therefore, here at J-Simple Recipes (Japanese Simple Recipes) we have prepared recipes for traditional Japanese dishes and international dishes with a Japanese twist which can easily be made at home.
It may be difficult to obtain all Japanese foodstuffs and seasonings, so we have included substitutions you can make. If you cannot get any Japanese foodstuffs or seasonings at the shops in your neighborhood, you can purchase them at numerous sites on the Internet.
At J-Simple Recipes, we have three keywords: “Simple,” “Healthy” and “Delicious.”
Simple
We want you to continue to cook Japanese food for a long time, so we have made the recipes simple.
Healthy
Because the Japanese cuisine has many low-calorie foods, you can have a healthy meal naturally and may not gain weight even if you eat a little too much.
Delicious
You may think that healthy and easy- to-cook food is not delicious, but that is not so with J-Simple Recipes.
J-Simple Recipes includes some international dishes with a Japanese twist, too. For example, even if you are just frying meat or vegetables, you can add soy sauce as the final seasoning in order to give any international dish a Japanese twist. So you can easily begin to like Japanese food.
Everyone has their own eating traditions, but if you add just a few Japanese recipes, your cooking experience will expand.
So please enjoy cooking Japanese food.
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Japanese/Int'l. Recipes
Japanese food and international dishes with a Japanese twist. It is the main part of this site.
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Japanese recipes for rice dishes and miso soup.
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An introduction to foodstuffs used in Japanese cooking.
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An introduction to the typical breakfast, lunch and dinner of the Japanese people.
Table Manners
This section on table manners is designed to help you in eating Japanese dishes.
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