Omurice

Name: Omurice
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 cups cooked rice; 150g chicken thigh, diced; 1/2 onion, diced; 4 tbsp tomato ketchup, plus extra to serve; 4 eggs; 2 tbsp butter; Peas (optional)

オムライス/OH-moo-rice/

Also known as: Omu Rice, Omelette Rice, Japanese Omelette Rice

About this dish

Ketchup-seasoned chicken fried rice wrapped in or topped with a soft omelette and finished with ketchup or demi-glace.

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Ingredients

🍚2 cups cooked rice

🍗150g chicken thigh, diced

🧅1/2 onion, diced

🍅4 tbsp tomato ketchup, plus extra to serve

🥚4 eggs

🧈2 tbsp butter

🫛Peas (optional)

Method

Serves 3

Fry the onion and chicken in half the butter until cooked, then add the rice and peas and stir-fry.

Stir in the ketchup and season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.

Beat 2 eggs per serving and cook in butter over medium heat, stirring gently, until just set underneath but soft on top.

Place a mound of rice on the omelette and fold the omelette over it, then turn onto a plate.

Decorate with ketchup and serve.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Omurice is a yoshoku (Western-style Japanese) dish created in early 20th-century Tokyo and Osaka cafés, now a favourite at home and in kissaten.

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