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Tamago Don (Egg Rice Bowl)

Name: Tamago Don (Egg Rice Bowl)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 8 large eggs, lightly beaten - leave streaks, don't fully homogenize; 1½ cups water; 1 piece kombu, 3x3-inch piece; ⅓ cup bonito flakes; 3 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp mirin; 1 tsp sugar; ½ medium yellow onion, thinly sliced; 1½ cups white rice, rinsed; 2 scallions, thinly sliced; 1 sheet nori strips, cut into thin strips with scissors; 2 tbsp pickled red ginger, for serving (optional)

Silky soft-scrambled egg, dashi-soy broth, rice and scallion.

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Prep: 10 min
Cook: 20 min
Makes: 4 servings
Skill: Beginner
Heat: Mild, adjustable

Pescatarian Halal Contains eggs Contains soy Contains fish

Maui says

Beat the eggs ONLY until streaky - like 6 chopstick strokes. Fully-mixed eggs scramble into uniform yellow rubber; streaky eggs set into silky ribbons with white and yellow zones, the way Japanese cooks intend.

Ingredients

Everything below makes 4 servings.

8large eggslightly beaten - leave streaks, don't fully homogenize
1½ cupswater
1 piecekombu3x3-inch piece
⅓ cupbonito flakes
3 tbspsoy sauce
2 tbspmirin
1 tspsugar
½ mediumyellow onionthinly sliced
1½ cupswhite ricerinsed
2scallionsthinly sliced
1 sheetnori stripscut into thin strips with scissors
2 tbsppickled red gingerfor serving (optional)

In the app these rescale to however many people you're feeding.

Nutrition

Per serving, as written.

420calories
18gprotein
62gcarbs
10gfat

Swaps move these numbers. A different protein or base changes them.

Instructions

Knife work first, then the stove. Nothing below asks you to chop while something burns.

Before you start

Start rice.
Beat eggs LIGHTLY in a bowl - chopsticks for ~6 strokes, leave streaks of white. Over-beaten eggs go rubbery.
Slice onion, scallions; cut nori strips.
Wipe kombu with damp cloth.

Quick dashi

Combine 1.5 cup water and kombu in skillet. Heat to just-before-simmer (~6 min); remove kombu. Brief boil, add bonito, OFF heat, steep 2 min. Strain back into the same skillet.

9 min · hands off

Season and onion

Add soy sauce, mirin, sugar, onion. Simmer 4 min until onion is soft and broth tastes balanced.

4 min · hands on

Pour eggs

Bring broth to a steady (not rolling) simmer. Pour beaten eggs in a swirl across the surface. Cover with a lid for 90 seconds - DON'T STIR. Eggs should still look soft and barely-set when you lift the lid; they'll finish on the rice.

2 min · hands on

Bowl up

Scoop rice into bowls. Slide the egg and onion and broth in one motion over the rice (use a wide spatula to keep curds intact). Top with scallions, nori strips, pickled ginger.

1 min · hands on

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Every swap here is one Maui already knows how to make, including what it does to the timing.

Instead of steamed white rice Brown rice

Start brown rice ~40 min ahead. Adds about 20 minutes.

Gluten free Tamari for soy sauce

What keeps

Tamago don is a make-to-order dish - the silky soft-scramble doesn't survive a reheat. You CAN make the dashi base ahead.

Cook eggs fresh per bowl.

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