Oyako Don - 親子丼

The bowl of rice topped with boiled chicken and eggs - 親子丼 - Oyako Don

This is an easy Japanese food that is called "Oyako Don". We Japanese have a many kind of "Don" style ("some food on the rice" style), I think this is the most famous "Don" in Japan. Today I'm going to cook basic Oyako Don (the bowl of rice topped with boiled chicken and eggs).

Cooking for less than 30 minutes

Ingredients for 2 people

1/2 medium brown onion
1 bunch of green onion
1 pound of chicken (Chicken is the best way to cook it.)
1 peace of baked fish cakes (Chikuwa)
1 block of fried Tofu (Abura-Age)
1 tbsp of dried seaweed
2 eggs

<sauce>
2 tbsp of dried Shi-take mushrooms
50 ml of water
1 tbsp of soup stock (Hondashi)
1 tbsp of Mirin
2 tsp of sugar
2 tbsp of soy sauce

1 1/2 cups of white steamed rice

Directions
1. Prepare a white steamed rice with rice cooker.

2. Put Shi-take mushrooms into the water.

3. Cut a vegetables, fried Tofu, Chikuwa and meat.

4. Put a meat into flat pot. Fried meat until it browned.

5. Put a vegetable into the pot. Fried them until the onion browned.

6. Make a sauce using the cup which use for Shi-take mushrooms. Don't throw away the water with Shi-take mushrooms.

7. Put the sauce into the pot. Wait for a while until it boiled.

8. Put the mixed egg into the pot. Heat them with low heat.

9. Use the lid until the egg get hard.

10. Put the steamed rice into a bowl. Then, put the stuff that you made into the bowl on the rice. And put a chopped seaweed on the top. Enjoy!

Cream Stew - クリームシチュー

Cream Stew - クリームシチュー

This is an easy Japanese stew that is called "Cream Stew". We can prepare without a roux, but normally we Japanese use a box of roux like a photo. You might get a roux at an Asian grocery store. Today I'm going to cook using roux, but I'll show you how to cook "Cream Stew" without roux in the next time.

Cooking for less than 1 hour

Ingredients for 4 people

- 1 medium brown onion
- 1 carrot
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1/4 bunch of bloccoli
- 3 small white mushrooms
- 1 pound of meat / chicken or pork
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1/2 of roux
- 2 cup of water
- 1/2 cup of milk

Directions

*Stew roux
Today I'm going to use this roux. Usually a box of roux costs less than $4- (USD). If you buy this roux in Japan, the cost is less than $2-. A box of roux can be for 8 people.

1. Cut a vegetables and meat as you like.

2.  Heat some oil into a big pot.

3. Then the oil is hot, throw the meat. When it's browned for a couple of minutes.

 4. Throw the onion. 

5. Then, throw the all vegetable.

6. Add the water.

7. Scoop a babble when the water is boiled.

8. Boil it about 15 minutes with a lid. And turn off the heat.

9. Add the roux into the pot. And mixed it until it melted.

10. Add a milk into the pot. Then boil again with low heat.

11. Enjoy with hand made bread or rice!