Microwave Oyakodon (Japanese Rooster and Egg Rice Bowl) Recipe

My husband often cuts out recipes from the weekend Wall Highway Journal and he leaves them on the kitchen counter for the one specific individual within the dwelling that enjoys cooking (that’s me!). Just some years prior to now, he unintentionally gifted me a cut-out recipe that flooded me with sweet reminiscences of my childhood: hen and eggs stewed in a brothy sauce served over rice. Commonly known as oyakodon in Japan, it’s soulful comfort meals that rings a bell in my memory of my mother—nonetheless I had in no way cooked it for myself. Now I make it fairly often for our three children.

Oyakodon is quick and easy to make at home and is traditionally cooked on the stovetop. Nonetheless making it throughout the microwave cuts the prepare dinner time for supper in half to beneath 10 minutes—that’s important for a busy working mom that is often up in opposition to the clock to get dinner on the desk.

What Is Oyakodon?

Oyakodon means “mother and teen bowl” in Japanese, a sweet nod to the hen and eggs throughout the recipe. It’s a popular rice bowl served at consuming locations and at home.

It begins with a sweet-and-savory broth made with soy sauce, dashi, sake, and sugar. (For this recipe, I exploit hen stock and mirin, instead of dashi and sake, since they’re pantry staples I on a regular basis have obtainable.) Sliced hen and onions are simmered throughout the broth and frivolously overwhelmed eggs are added on the end. As quickly because the eggs are set, the oyakodon is scooped over warmth rice. It’s a simple however hearty dinner.

Use Rooster Thighs, Not Rooster Breasts

You’ve come to a recipe written by a person that is squarely in workers hen thighs. In fact, till I’m buying for a whole hen, I don’t ever prepare dinner dinner hen breasts. They’re easy to overcook and when cooked throughout the microwave, they’ll get dry and stringy. I would advocate sticking to hen thighs—they’ll preserve juicy even in case you occur to microwave them for too prolonged.

No Mirin? Use This In its place

Mirin, a sweetened rice wine, is a Japanese pantry staple that’s exhausting to hunt out throughout the U.S. in its purest type—attainable not at your neighborhood grocery retailer. I prefer to suggest Takara, nonetheless I don’t on a regular basis have it.

In its place, I exploit aji-mirin (it interprets to “tastes like mirin” in Japanese) made by Kikkoman. It’s a near-perfect completely different I can uncover at my native Kroger, Objective, and Full Meals. It’s comparatively low-cost and does the job of together with umami, sweetness, and a bit tang. For the perfect price, seek for it at your native grocery retailer instead of Amazon.

Prep For a Busy Week

Sometimes I journey for work and my husband (who’s not the perfect prepare dinner dinner, nonetheless he is masterful at laundry, dishes, and vacuuming) is tasked with feeding our three children. If I’ve my wits about me, I prep this recipe by marinating the hen and greens throughout the sweet-salty sauce correct throughout the baking dish. I cowl the dish with plastic wrap and pop it throughout the fridge the place it may preserve for a couple of days. Then all he has to do is microwave it and add the eggs. I’d identify this a severe microwave dinner enhance.

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