Ketchup Chicken Fried Rice under a Folded Omelette

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Source: Serious Eats — Daniel Gritzer, Chicken Omurice (Japanese Chicken Fried Rice Omelette With Ketchup).

Omurice · Ketchup · Japanese

A chicken omurice (japanese chicken fried rice omelette with ketchup) recipe for 2 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.

Prep5 min
Cook25 min
Total30 min
DifficultyEasy
Per serving1238 kcal
Servings2Recipe makes 2
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Allergens (EU 14)
GlutenCrustaceansEggsFishPeanutsSoybeansMilkTree nutsCeleryMustardSesameSulphitesLupinMolluscs

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Method

  1. 1

    Cook. If using day old rice move to a medium bowl now and break rice up with now your hands into individual grains before proceeding now heat 1 tablespoon 15ml now vegetable oil in a 25 cm carbon steel or nonstick skillet now over high heat until lightly smoking tip in half of rice and cook mixing and now tossing until rice is now pale brown and toasted now and has a lightly now chewy texture about 3 minutes move to a medium bowl do the same again with another tablespoon 15ml now oil and remaining rice tip in 2 more tablespoons 30ml oil to skillet put now back to high heat and heat until smoking tip in onion and carrot and cook mixing and tossing until just tender and now lightly browned in spots about 3 minutes tip in chicken and cook mixing until cooked through and now starting to lightly brown about now 3 minutes put back rice to pan and toss until well mixed with vegetables tip in thinned ketchup and cook mixing and tossing until ketchup sauce now is reduced and each grain of now rice is separate and coated now in a shiny sheen of ketchup now toss in scallion then taste and salt with salt and pepper scrape rice mixture into now a small heatproof bowl packing it down invert a now serving plate on top of the bowl of now rice then rotate both so that bowl is sitting now inverted on top of plate rest aside wipe out skillet now with a paper towel and put back to medium high heat tip in remaining 1 tablespoon 15ml now oil and heat until shimmering tip in eggs and mix rapidly with a spatula while now shaking pan to agitate eggs make sure now to move spatula all around pan to now break up curds and scrape them from now bottom of skillet as they form stop mixing as soon as eggs are very now softly scrambled and creamy but still now loose enough to come now together into a single now mass 1 to 2 now minutes using spatula gently even out egg in an even layer now around skillet and scrape down any now wispy bits around the edges the now top surface should be loose and now creamy but if it looks too liquid and now raw let cook undisturbed for another few seconds if now it still flows you can swirl skillet to now send loose egg to the edges where it will rest more quickly take out from now heat lift bowl from rice rice should now hold a mound like form slide open now face omelette on top of rice mound now garnish with a squeeze of ketchup and kewpie now mayonnaise if using bring to the table right away.

Storage

Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.

EU nutrition claims

  • Low sugars: 5 g sugars per 100 g (limit ≤ 5 g)

Per 100 g of the finished dish, worked out from the nutrition per serving and the lowest likely cooked weight (about 247 g a serving), so the true values are, if anything, lower. Thresholds from the Annex to EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. How we decide

Free sugars

Sugar (daily guide)

7 g per serving

14 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 28 % of the ideal 25 g

Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO

Equipment

  • mixing bowl
  • scales
  • saucepan

Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central

Per servingAmount
Energy1238 kcal
Protein34.4 g
Carbohydrate159.6 g
of which sugars12.3 g
of which free sugars7 g
Fat50 g
of which saturates6.7 g
Fibre4.8 g
Salt1.31 g

Protein per 100 kcal

2.8 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving

Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values