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Japanese omelette- this is not quite the standard form of an omelette that we are all used to seeing and using. When it comes to food, the Japanese are the ones who know best how to serve this or that dish so that guests can't stop being surprised.
Japanese omelette, or tamago as it is also called, is usually cooked in a special rectangular pan and turned over with wooden sticks. But we don’t need such excesses, we can easily cope with an ordinary round frying pan and a simple wooden spatula.
In Japan itself, this omelet is used as the basis for sushi, wrapping rice and seafood in it.
By the way, young mothers share their advice: prepare such a breakfast for your child and he will not be able to refuse, and in the end he will even ask for more! Children, as you know, rarely eat breakfast willingly. And with the help of such an original way to serve an omelette, you can instill in children the habit of eating in the morning.
Cooking a classic Japanese omelette will not take more than twenty minutes. This is perfect for when you're short on time, but you need to prepare a meal. If you decide to cook this dish at home with your own hands, then our recipe with step-by-step photos will be very useful to you, which will clearly demonstrate the entire cooking process.
The traditional Japanese omelette is called tamago-yaki. Literally, fried egg. The dish is prepared for breakfast and served as an appetizer. Tamago-yaki is a frequent guest of the cafe and is used to make rolls.
Japanese omelet photo:
Tamago-yaki or Japanese omelet
Japanese tamago omelet
A traditional omelet includes rice wine, which can be replaced with any liquid. The best option would be rice or apple cider vinegar. If vinegars are not on hand, use any alcohol you wish. If an omelet is prepared for children, then, of course, it is better not to add alcohol.
For cooking two servings Japanese omelette according to the traditional recipe will require:
- 5 eggs;
- A tablespoon of oil, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar.
The cooking time is 16-17 minutes. How to make a Japanese omelet:
- Crack the eggs into a deep bowl. Beat them with a whisk or fork until smooth.
- Strain the eggs through a sieve.
- Add soy sauce, sugar, rice wine to them. Stir until sugar dissolves.
- Lubricate the pan with vegetable oil using a silicone brush. Heat up the container.
- When the oil boils, pour some of the egg mixture into the pan to cover the bottom. Smooth it out quickly.
- Roast over low heat. Once the omelet has set, roll it into a roll.
- Pour another portion of the egg mixture into the vacated space. Repeat the frying process until all the liquid is used up. Oil should be renewed before each serving.
- Serve the finished roll hot.
Omu-raisu - Japanese omelet with rice
Japanese omelette with rice is called omu-rice, which is not translated into Russian. Japanese rice omelet is an adaptation of Western cuisine.
Omu rice or Japanese rice omelet
For three servings Japanese omelette with rice according to a traditional recipe will require:
- 150 g of chicken meat;
- 300 g of rice;
- 4 eggs;
- 3/4 cup heavy cream;
- 5 fresh mushrooms;
- Small bulb;
- garlic tooth;
- 200 g of tomatoes in their own juice;
- A tablespoon of white wine and ketchup;
- Half a bouillon cube;
- Peas, salt, oil and herbs to taste.
Cooking time for traditional Japanese rice omelette is 50 minutes. It takes a long time, but it comes out very beautiful and tasty. Do not be afraid - the recipe, although it has many steps, is not at all complicated!
How to make a Japanese omelette with rice, step by step:
- Cut the chicken into small pieces. Salt, sprinkle with spices and set aside.
- Finely chop the onion and garlic.
- Wash the mushrooms, cut into cubes.
- Pour boiling water over the peas for 10 seconds, then drain the water.
- Grind tomatoes in a blender.
- Crack the eggs into a deep bowl. Pour in the cream. Salt and whisk into a thick foam.
- Heat up a skillet with oil.
- Saute the onion and garlic for about 5 minutes.
- Put the chicken meat in the pan.
- When it brightens, add mushrooms and wine. Simmer until the liquid runs out.
- Add chopped tomatoes, peas, ketchup to the dish. Crack the bouillon cube and add to the pan as well.
- Stir the mixture and cook until a thick mass forms.
- Boil rice.
- Transfer the sauce obtained in the pan to the rice. Cool the mixture.
- Transfer the egg base to the pan, heating the butter on it.
- Fry the omelet on one side.
- Pour the rice mixture into the middle of the pancake.
- Roll up the omelette.
- Cook the dish for about 2 minutes.
- When serving the omelette, place it seam side down.
- Decorate with ketchup.
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omelette recipe
Even a familiar dish can be prepared in an unusual way - a Japanese omelette with rice is proof of this! Prepare it according to our step by step recipe with photos and videos.
15 minutes
149 kcal
5/5 (3)
Omelet is a favorite quick and hearty breakfast. But often you want to diversify its taste. Many ingredients can be added to the omelet, making the taste brighter and richer. For example, “omelette with vegetables” will diversify your summer menu, and “omelette with sausage” will saturate you in the cold season. But now we offer to cook a special Japanese omelette with rice.
The Japanese are known to be connoisseurs of rice. No complete meal is complete without it. So an omelet called "Omuraisu", which literally means "rice in an omelet", came to us from the land of the rising sun. Japanese omelette is very nutritious and gives a good boost of energy for the day. And we will tell you how to cook it quickly and easily.
Ingredients and preparation
Kitchen appliances: frying pan, spatula, whisk, small deep bowl.
Ingredients
The main ingredient in the Japanese omelet filling is rice.. You can add whatever you have in the fridge to it. Vegetables, such as canned green peas or corn, are fine, and seafood, such as peeled shrimp, can be used in place of meat. Add a few spoonfuls of soy sauce to the filling and you get another superb touch of flavor.
Step by Step Recipe for Omuraisu Japanese Rice Omelet
Preparing the stuffing
Filling preparation
The filling is ready. Transfer it to a plate or use a second skillet to make the base of the omelet, the egg pancake.
Cooking an omelet
In our recipe, the Japanese omelet is one of the options for the “dairy-free omelette.” If desired, you can add some milk to it, but do not make the pancake too thick. Japanese omelet is already an independent hearty dish. A fresh vegetable salad goes well with it. Bon appetit!
Japanese omelet video recipe
How to cook a Japanese omelette with rice in a pan, you can see in this video:
The topic of cooking omelettes can be developed for a long time. It all depends on your imagination and the technical possibilities in your kitchen. Try, for example, cook or.
Today we will cook my children's favorite omelet. I even guess why they have such a strong love in this Japanese omelet - the finished dish has a noticeably sweetish taste. At the same time, Tamago-yaki has a pleasant aroma and a completely unusual appearance for a classic omelet, resembling a roll of the thinnest egg pancakes.
Japanese omelette Tamago-yaki (from tamago - egg, yaki - fried) is usually served for breakfast, as a snack, or used as one of the ingredients in the preparation of rolls and hot sushi.
The classic Japanese Tamago-yaki omelette contains mirin (sweet rice wine), but unfortunately I don't have it, so I use rice vinegar. It is much more gentle than even apple cider vinegar and has a very pleasant aroma, in addition, it makes the omelet balanced in taste. By the way, you can vary the amount of ingredients used to your liking, but for the first time, I highly recommend sticking to those that I suggest.
Ingredients:
Cooking step by step with photos:
In a suitable dish, break fresh chicken eggs, which must first be washed and wiped dry. Take a bowl in which it will be convenient to beat the eggs.
Now we need to beat the chicken eggs a little, but not so that they become airy and fluffy. Our task is to break down the initially viscous protein so that it becomes liquid and homogeneous. To do this, you can use a fork, whisk or mixer. The last option I like the most, as everything happens quickly and simply. Beat the eggs at the lowest speed of the mixer for literally 30 seconds.
Mix everything thoroughly so that the sugar crystals are completely dissolved. I write for a long time and a lot, but in fact everything happens in a matter of minutes.
It's time to fry the Japanese Tamago-yaki omelet. A square pan is ideal for this, but I don't have one. Therefore, we will simply use a wide frying pan with a large diameter (I have 24 centimeters). The pancake maker (a frying pan for baking pancakes) behaves perfectly in this matter. We grease it with vegetable oil (we don’t pour it, but we grease it - we don’t need much), put it on fire a little below average and visually divide the omelet mass into 4-6 servings. It all depends on the diameter of the pan. When the vegetable oil is hot, pour a thin layer of the egg mixture and quickly level it by simply turning the pan on the weight (as you bake pancakes). Let the omelette grab so that you can roll it up. Do not make a strong fire, otherwise the pancake may darken in a moment, become dry and hard.
Helping ourselves with a spatula (who knows how - with wooden sticks), we turn the omelette into a tight roll, a little short of the edge of the pan. If you have a square-shaped dish, roll up to the very end.
Now again pour a portion of the omelette mass in a thin layer so that it reaches our first roll. Before that, lightly grease the freed surface of the pan with a little oil. The trick is to get these two egg pancakes together. When the second grabs, we twist the roll in the opposite direction, that is, add the second to the first omelette, winding it over.
The Japanese omelette is also known to many under the name "tamagoyaki" or "tamago-yaki", which literally translates from Japanese as "fried egg". This is a rather tasty and nutritious dish that is prepared from eggs by rolling them into a roll. Traditionally, such an omelette is cooked in a rectangular pan (it’s more convenient), but I think that the main thing in the dish is its taste, so I fried the omelette in a regular round pan (you just need to get used to it). This dish has become very popular among many hostesses, despite the fact that in terms of culinary age, it is quite young.
To prepare an omelette, we need the following ingredients: eggs, sugar, soy sauce, wine, salt and sunflower oil. This list of products will allow you to cook a traditional omelet, although today you can find a lot of varieties of this Japanese dish on the net. For cooking, the list of ingredients I indicated is supplemented with seafood, yams, sake, etc.
The process of cooking an omelette itself is practically no different from the usual for Slavic hostesses, in any case, most of the cooking stages will definitely not confuse you. Due to the availability and cheapness of products, such an omelet can be prepared at least every day for breakfast, thereby diversifying your daily menu well. Despite the seeming simplicity, with such an omelette you can heartily feed the whole family and are not afraid that the feeling of hunger will make itself felt before dinner.
After the Japanese omelette is ready, it can be served at the table in different ways. As a rule, it is served as a dish on its own, and is most often done at the end of a meal, but is sometimes used to make rolls. If you love egg dishes and at the same time are open to everything new, then you should definitely try this omelet.
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs + 1 yolk
- 2 tbsp dry white wine
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Sahara
- A pinch of salt
- Sunflower oil for frying
Cooking step by step with photos:
Bon appetit!
The Japanese omelet is a delicacy that is not only accessible to everyone, but it is extremely easy to prepare and from affordable products. Of course, in order for you to get the dishes, you will need to make some efforts, but the result will definitely be worth it. Finally, I want to give a few tips to make your Japanese omelet delicious and the first time:
- For the recipe, it is best to use white wine, since the addition of red wine will make the taste tart, and the appearance of the dish will not change for the better;
- You can fry an omelette in any vegetable oil, so look at the situation;
- A ready-made omelet for the table can be served as an independent dish, and also used as one of the ingredients for making rolls;
- The remaining protein from the fifth egg can be used for cooking other dishes, for example, meringue or cream for desserts.
