Recipe: Japanese Omurice! Omelette made with fried rice. Want to impress your significant other? Whip this up for dinner tonight!

Number of steps:  9 steps
Time taken: 15 - 20 min

About This Dish:
Omurice is essentially a soft and fluffy omelette topped on chicken rice which is usually ketchup flavoured. Some people wrap the chicken rice into the omelette and some top the omelette carefully on top of the bed of rice. This dish is popular as a homemade dish and as a lunch/dinner dish in western restaurants. You could add some more ketchup on top of the dish or pour beef stew on top (a.k.a. Hayashi rice, which I will post in the future). I cannot tell you how great the rice tasted. It tasted as though I had been cooking it for hours or in my crockpot! 

What You Need:
(For 2 dishes)

• 2 cups of rice (Of course, I used Japanese rice. Usually rice previously in the fridge works best)
• Mixed vegetables (I used half an onion and some carrots)
  
• 50g of chicken (around 2oz)
• 1-1.5 tbsp of butter
• 2 tsp soup stock powder/cube
• 100ml water (0.4 cups)
• 2 tbsp ketchup (Adjust as needed, I ended up putting a little more than this)
• 1 tsp sugar
• Pinch of salt and pepper
• Oil
• 4 eggs (2 eggs per person shall do!)
• Optional: Couple tsp of milk

1. Cut the veggies and chicken into small pieces like the photo. Heat up a pan, place the butter, then throw in the veggies and chicken. Cook until the onion becomes fairly clear.

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4. Add the rice and season with salt and pepper as you wish! I personally would recommend adding warm rice to the mixture.

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7. Once you make sure the pan is hot hot HOT, pour in the egg. I put my heat up to HIGH here.

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2. Add the soup stock, water, ketchup and sugar to the mixture and as you continue to stir, cook it on MEDIUM heat. Make sure to keep mixing to avoid any burns! 

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5. In a bowl, crack open 2 eggs and add a tsp of milk and mix roughly. Don't over mix.

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8. Mix the egg 3-5 times in a circle using a utensil and remove from heat.

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3. Cook the mixture until most of the water evaporates. This is very important. We don't want the rice to be soggy.

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6. Heat up a different pan with 1-2 tbsp of oil. I know this could sound like a lot of oil, but it helps make the egg fluffy.

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9. Top the egg carefully on top of the bed of rice and add your favourite sauce on top. I would just go with ketchup on lazy nights. 

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Note: If you want to wrap your chicken rice with the egg, simply put the bed 
of rice on top of the egg at step 7. Place on the edge so you can roll the egg up like an omelette!