Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Dance and Oyakodon Dish

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date. This is my piece for the Dance theme.

 For the Dinner date, my sister had given me this recipe for Oyakodon, a Japanese Chicken and Egg on rice recipe.  I decided to try something new for me.  The first step was to visit the Asian grocery store to locate Dashi powder.  It is needed to make the Dashi stock required in this recipe.  There is a diagram on the 10 g packet with tells you that 4g (1 tsp) of the powder packet (half a packet) with 600 ml of water (boiling) with give you 2 1/2 cups of dashi stock, I was good to go!

Dashi Powder

Here is the recipe I used.

1 tbs olive oil

4 skinless boneless chicken thighs cut into bite sized pieces

1 onion thinly sliced

 2c dashi stock (approx)

1/4 c soy sauce

3 tbs mirin

3 tbs brown sugar

4 eggs

4 c cooked white rice

Heat oil, brown chicken pieces for 5 minutes, stir in onions for another 5 mins.

Pour in stock, soy, mirin, sugar.  Simmer 10 minutes.  Swirl in beaten eggs.  Simmer covered for 5 more minutes.  Serve on top of rice.

Note:  To make the dashi stock, I mixed  a teaspoon of powder (about half a 10g packet) with 2 1/2 c boiling water.

I have lots of packets of dashi stock so I may try making my own miso soup next.