Recipe: Perfect Omerice (Egg over Rice)

Omerice (Egg over Rice). Today's recipe is Omurice, or Japanese Omelette Rice. How to make omurice (omelet rice) at home, thanks to a Japanese home cook's authentic recipe. Instead of the typical flat folded style you'd expect from a diner omelet, omurice eggs are scrambled, then blanketed over a fried rice filling.

There's a video on YouTube that I've watched several times over the past couple of years. In it, a chef in Kyoto makes a plate of omurice with a. Omurice, or Omuraisu as it's pronounced in Japan, is a portmanteau of "Omelette" and "Rice." As for the egg, classic styles of omurice were made into an oval shape and wrapped in a Although I almost always advocate using chicken thighs over breast meat. You can have Omerice (Egg over Rice) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Omerice (Egg over Rice)

1. Prepare 4 of hotdogs.
2. Prepare 1 of small carrot.
3. It's 1 stalk of celery.
4. Prepare 1 of medium onion.
5. It's 1/2 TBS of minced garlic.
6. It's 1 1/2 cup of cooked rice.
7. Prepare 1 TBSP of soy sauce.
8. It's 1 TBSP of oyster sauce.
9. Prepare 1/2 TBS of sugar.
10. You need 3 of large eggs.
11. Prepare of Salt and pepper.
12. You need of Oil for cooking.

Omurice is a very popular home cooked meal in Japan. It is a chicken fried rice wrapped with a thin sheet of crepe-like fried egg. Omurice, omelet rice, is ketchup fried rice wrapped with a crepe-like thinly fried egg. Doesn't sound like Japanese food, does it?

Omerice (Egg over Rice) instructions

1. Dice all vegetables and hotdogs..
2. In a bowl, crack 3 large eggs. Add pinch of salt and pepper. Whip it well. Set aside..
3. Put frying pan on high heat. When pan is hot, put some oil, add all of the diced ingredients in and cook until onion is translucent. Make a well, add soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Mix well. Add rice. Cook for another 3 minutes. Turn off heat..
4. On another burner, put another frying pan on medium low heat. When pan is ready, put enough oil as for an omelette. Pour half of the eggs in. Put half of the stir fried rice in the middle. Wait until the border gets cooked, fold one side in, the ends in, and the last side in. Refer to pictures..
5. Cover with a lid. Let it cook for another 2 minutes. When done, turn off heat, put plate on pan (picture). Hold plate with one hand, with the other hand holding the pan, turn the pan over onto the plate..
6. And your omerice is rested on the plate. Drizzle with some ketchup. Lunch/dinner is ready..

Omurice, a beloved staple of Japanese home cooking, is a linguistic and literal mash-up of omelet and rice. A plain omelet cloaks ketchup-flavored Season with salt and pepper. Pour the egg mixture into the heated pan. Shake and swirl the pan over the heat, stirring. Omurice (오므라이스) is fried rice wrapped in egg omelette.