Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Food Assignment 7

Cooking Oyako-Don! (Japanese meal)

This meal is really easy to make and the ingredients are easy to find.

To make it you need the following:

- Eggs (For three pleople 6 eggs)

- Chicken (quantity of your choice)

- Onion (quantity of your choice)

- Mentsuyu (This sauce can be found in 89st and first av.)
Contained ingredients: Fish extract (water dried bonito, dried sardine), soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), Water, Hight fructose corn syrup, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, alcohol, mirin (glucose syrup, water, rice, alcohol), Kelp extract (water, dried kelpt, salt, alcohol(, Disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate.

- Water

- White rice

For 3/4 of mentsuyu poured add 2 parts of water. While cooking, constantly try it and if you want add more mentsuyu or water depending on your taste.
It takes less than 25 minutes to cook and it is very simple.


Instructions:


Step 1: If you do not have a rice cooker then you can make the rice differently. I will make the rice this way to demonstrate how to do it. For 1 cup of rice use 2 cups of water. In this case I will make 2 cups of rice therefore I will need 4 cups of waster. In a pot fry the rice for 4 minues with a a little bit of oil. Then pour the 4 cups of water and cover the pot. After 25 minutes cooking at minimum the rice will be done.



Step 2: Meanwhile the rice is cooking cut the chicken into small pieces. I recommend boneless chicken to make it faster. In a pan fry the chicken until it is ready to eat. Add little oil so that the chicken doesn't stick to the pan. Spread the chicken out so that it cooks evenly.


Step 3: In a bowl put the quantity of yolks you wish for this meal and mix these.

Step 4: Chop the onion depending on how much you would like to use.


Step 5: Once the chicken is ready add the eggs and the onions to the pan.


Wait until the eggs are 3/4 cooked, then add the mentsuyu and water. In this case I will use 6 eggs, 3/4 of mentsuyu, and 2 parts of water.


Keep mixing until the eggs are done and constantly try it to find out its taste. You are free to add more mentsuyu or water. You can also add any other vegetable you would like, along with the onion. Or to replace the onion.


Once it is done in a bowl put the amount of rice you would like to eat and on top put the Oyako-Don! Enjoy and itadakimasu!

My own experience
I really like how it tastes. My sister does not like onions so she took them off to eat it. She really liked it too. My father enjoys eating Oyako-Don every time, and this time it was the same. I will bring this to my class tomorrow and give it to my classmates. I hope they like it too.










What my Classmates thought about my Oyako-Don:

Because it was after lunch many of them were satisfied and did not want to eat anymore. But some of them however decided to try it. The first one was Bao Lin, and she liked it very much. She wanted to take some home, but she couldn't because there was basically nothing left at the end. Dylan liked it and he finished it very fast. He complimented my cooking. Then I gave one to Mara and she finished it after class, she also liked it. I did not bring enough for everyone therefore I didn't give much to classmates. Next time I will bring more.

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